| Atamira | morning | 18:38 |
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| olly | morning | 19:04 |
| mwhudson | morning | 19:04 |
| hads | morning | 19:05 |
| ajmitch | morning | 19:36 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:51 |
| ibeardslee | http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release | 19:51 |
| * mwhudson is installing | 19:59 | |
| mwhudson | although i'm not sure any of the games on that page look super super appealing | 20:01 |
| ajmitch | hopefully there'll be a few more over the coming months | 20:01 |
| ibeardslee | a number of rumours of the next iteration of some popular games coming out on (steam for) linux first | 20:12 |
| ajmitch | I'll believe it when I see it happen :) | 20:14 |
| ibeardslee | likewise | 20:14 |
| thumper | morning | 20:15 |
| snail | the only reason i can see a linux-first approach making sense is if the games were developed in a way that made an extensive build / test farm useful in dev, which seems unlikely | 20:17 |
| snail | OTOH; if you're using 1000 hours x 1000 boxen to fine-tune a learning, adaptive AI, that may make sense... | 20:24 |
| ajmitch | I don't see why that's relevant to the platform that a game would be released on | 20:27 |
| ajmitch | with valve confirming plans for a linux-based console spec, that'd generally be the main business reason for releasing first on linux | 20:30 |
| snail | ajmitch: a thousand windows licences is $$$$ right, of have they changed their licensing, again? | 20:42 |
| ajmitch | licensing changes all the time for windows, there's always some difference between retail licensing & what an organisation might be able to negotiate | 20:46 |
| snail | fair enough | 20:47 |
| ajmitch | microsoft are especially friendly with licensing costs towards developers because it helps more people stick with windows :) | 20:48 |
| snail | so the steam announcement might be more closely related to steams' current licence negotiations with microsoft than the actually chances of a linux version? | 21:54 |
| ajmitch | who knows? | 22:09 |
| ajmitch | valve do appear to be serious about linux support, but game developers still need to port games | 22:10 |
| thumper | oh hai there | 22:10 |
| thumper | I have a theory | 22:10 |
| thumper | "steam box" | 22:10 |
| thumper | is linux based | 22:10 |
| thumper | valve want their box to get new titles first | 22:11 |
| ajmitch | yeah, that's what I mentioned earlier | 22:11 |
| thumper | ajmitch: oh, sorry | 22:11 |
| thumper | lines were too long :) | 22:11 |
| ajmitch | it's nothing we can really change, so I won't worry about it too much :) | 22:12 |
| thumper | ajmitch: sure you can, write less on each line | 22:12 |
| thumper | :) | 22:12 |
| ajmitch | I was meaning about valve :P | 22:12 |
| thumper | heh | 22:12 |
| thumper | valve have little to no interest in windows 8 | 22:13 |
| thumper | microsoft have little to no interest supporting less than windows 8 | 22:13 |
| ajmitch | valve provides the distribution platform, but game developers still choose which to support | 22:14 |
| ajmitch | HL3 on linux would still be nice :) | 22:14 |
| snail | i'd buy civilisation-type games on linux | 22:58 |
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