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Half-Life 3 won’t be a SteamOS exclusive

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Half-Life 3, whether it actually exists or not, is quite easily the single most eagerly anticipated game in al of videogamedom. Valve could quite probably take over the entire planet as our new overlords if they made that game exclusive to Steam Machines and its intrinsic SteamOS. Only that’s not going to happen.

Speaking to IGN, Valve’s Greg Comer affirmed that that’s just not the Valve way of doing things.

"You won’t see an exclusive killer app for SteamOS from us. We’re not going to be doing that kind of thing," Comer said. .

Valve’s Anna Sweet added that the company even pushes third party developers and publishers to release their games on as many platforms as possible.

"Whenever we talk to third-party partners, we encourage them to put their games in as many places as possible, including not on our platforms,” she said.

"Because we think that customers are everywhere, and they want to put their games wherever customers are. That would go against our whole philosophy, to launch something that’s exclusive to SteamOS or Steam machines."

Comer went on to say the Valve doesn’t want to "create those artificial barriers to accessing content,”

“…in maybe five years from now, folks will find it a quite antiquated notion that you should assume that when you change devices or platforms, that you lose all of your other games and friends. We’re hoping to unify, to get Steam to be as platform- and context-agnostic as possible. You shouldn’t have to shed that every generation, or even slightly shed it.”

So you won’t need to run SteamOS – but you’ll probably want to.

Last Updated: November 5, 2013

51 Comments

  1. Captain GUZ

    November 5, 2013 at 07:52

    This is great way to approach the whole multi platform question, good to see they putting the customers first. Now if they can just hurry the F up with HL3 I’ll be happy.

    HL3 coming 2036…..

    Reply

    • Axon1988

      November 5, 2013 at 07:54

      Stop it! Don’t make me all sad. This emotional roller coaster is causing me too much agony. I think that we should maybe start looking at alternatives.

      Reply

      • SaintsRowNigri

        November 5, 2013 at 08:02

        Do you and Captain Guz need couples therapy?

        Reply

        • Axon1988

          November 5, 2013 at 08:03

          All I need is the Guz.

          Reply

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:03

            Does he feel the same way?

          • Axon1988

            November 5, 2013 at 08:05

            I don’t know, I think he signed a NDA 🙁

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            November 5, 2013 at 08:03

            Does he/she/it complete you? 😉

          • Axon1988

            November 5, 2013 at 08:05

            You complete me… 😉

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:08

            And the plot sickens… uhm thickens…

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            November 5, 2013 at 08:08

            Please let that not be innuendo. Please let that not be innuendo. Please let that not be innuendo.

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:13

            I dunno. I am contacting Gavin and then etv. I sense soap opera gold here…

          • Axon1988

            November 5, 2013 at 08:09

            It was valve… not me.

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:05

            hey back off! He already has a therapist! ME!!!

          • Axon1988

            November 5, 2013 at 08:08

            Jelly?

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:10

            Butterscotch pudding, I am afraid…

          • Axon1988

            November 5, 2013 at 08:11

            Yes please…

          • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

            November 5, 2013 at 08:09

            the/rapist.

          • Axon1988

            November 5, 2013 at 08:11

            Is that your alter ego?

          • Admiral Chief Ninja

            November 5, 2013 at 08:13

            haha

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:22

            Stop violating me!

          • Captain GUZ

            November 5, 2013 at 08:11

            There is only one therapy I need, it involves a crowbar and beating down facehuggers

          • SaintsRowNigri

            November 5, 2013 at 08:17

            Headcrabs. Facehuggers are Xenomorphs… And close encounters with a Xenomorph is strictly Verboten. Acid for blood and all…

          • Captain GUZ

            November 5, 2013 at 09:00

            My bad, getting my aliens mixed up like that, silly me haven’t had enough coffee this morning,

  2. Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

    November 5, 2013 at 07:55

    Oh nice way to attract the clicks. Make me all excited that there was actual news of HL3 🙁 You are a cruel man Geoff. A cruel, cruel man 🙁

    But, it’s great to hear that Valve is against exclusivity 🙂

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    • Unavengedavo(aka. IceCreamMan)

      November 5, 2013 at 08:37

      I agree, I was all happy and exited about the news! How does he sleep at night!!!

      Reply

      • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

        November 5, 2013 at 08:38

        I dunno man. I just don’t know

        Reply

  3. Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

    November 5, 2013 at 07:56

    also, the longer you stare at that header the funnier it becomes

    Reply

    • Admiral Chief Ninja

      November 5, 2013 at 07:59

      Kinda like my paycheck

      Reply

      • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

        November 5, 2013 at 08:02

        Whahahaha…. Wait.. no… that’s terrible! :'(

        Reply

  4. Admiral Chief Ninja

    November 5, 2013 at 07:59

    GG Valve

    Reply

  5. Melasco

    November 5, 2013 at 08:02

    At this rate the next Half Life game will take longer than Diablo 3 took after 2….

    Reply

    • GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness

      November 5, 2013 at 08:02

      Or Longer than Duke Forever….

      Reply

  6. Alien Emperor Trevor

    November 5, 2013 at 08:02

    If SteamOS can run all my old games and offers performance benefits, I’ll give it a serious look.

    Reply

    • SaintsRowNigri

      November 5, 2013 at 08:04

      Yes, yes and yes!

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        November 5, 2013 at 08:07

        That’s what she said!

        Reply

        • SaintsRowNigri

          November 5, 2013 at 08:09

          Your mom? Shit. Sorry. Just saw Gavin’s Call of Duty Tweet…

          Reply

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            November 5, 2013 at 08:10

            Yes, my mom owns in CoD. She loves the irony of the insults!

          • TiMsTeR1033

            November 5, 2013 at 08:21

            your mom plays cod? seriously?

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            November 5, 2013 at 08:26

            lol no. My mom can barely even use the TV properly.

        • Rincethisweekout!

          November 5, 2013 at 08:33

          Man, you would have loved OVG on Saturday, every 3 minutes you would hear ‘that’s what she said…’

          Reply

  7. Mark Treloar

    November 5, 2013 at 08:35

    “That would go against our whole philosophy, to launch something that’s exclusive to SteamOS or Steam machines” that said try playing COD or Skyrim without using Steam.

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    • ToshZA

      November 5, 2013 at 08:39

      But steam is available on PC, Linux and Mac. Which emphasizes his point, its not platform exclusive.

      Reply

      • Mark Treloar

        November 5, 2013 at 08:50

        Doesn’t stop things from being exclusive or Steam from being DRM

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        • ToshZA

          November 5, 2013 at 09:01

          Steam is a form of DRM, but its primary function is as a distribution platform. As Geoff said above, its not Steam that makes anything platform exclusive, they just distribute the games. And since they’re on everything that isn’t a console, they are not platform exclusive, and if Valve does make HL3, they will make it available across their entire platform base, not just for the SteamOS.

          All other devs have this option too, make the game available on PC, Mac and Linux. Steam won’t stop them from doing that, in fact it will help them do it.

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          • Kromas

            November 5, 2013 at 10:55

            I recall seeing an x-box version of Orange Box. If valve had that much issues with it they would not have released their awesome games for console.

    • SaintsRowNigri

      November 5, 2013 at 08:41

      I was thinking that exact same thing…

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    • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

      November 5, 2013 at 08:44

      And it’s not Valve that mandates those games run through steam; Bethesda and Activision have.

      Reply

      • Mark Treloar

        November 5, 2013 at 08:48

        True, by this is still against what they claim they want. it may be on different systems but still remains exclusive. Its the same thing that pissed people off when EA launched Origin. People wanted to be able to use Steam but were forced into Origin.

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        • ToshZA

          November 5, 2013 at 09:03

          That was a call by EA. Valve and Steam do not have the authority to tell EA what they can and can’t do. So. Steam, the subject of this topic, remains at its core, a multi-platform distribution network.

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          • Kromas

            November 5, 2013 at 10:53

            Agreed. It is like Witcher 3.They say DRM free but also stated that just because they want it DRM free does not mean that will abandon those who want to buy it off steam (essentially DRM). I vote Valve and CDPR as presidents of the world!

  8. UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

    November 5, 2013 at 09:16

    I just hope that the Steam Machines can also be used as media centers… Need some DLNA and MP3 love!

    Reply

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