STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox

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yeah the halo 3 community page adds some truth to this for now but i still have doubt
 
My immediate thought when I saw this was that they had had it with having things leak with their Registry system and have decided to screw it up so that people understand that it is not a viable source of information anymore.

I would love it to be true, but am not holding high hopes for it.
 
I'm sorry but isn't this hilarious?

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1-D_FTW said:
I wonder if that's what the patch was for?

Of course, this is PC gaf. It's quite possible nobody ever launched it to realize this.
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I think Tin Tin worked this way from the beginning. It uses SolidShield.

Stump's review actually made me really curious though. Hope I can get it for cheap one day.
 
DirtRiver said:
My immediate thought when I saw this was that they had had it with having things leak with their Registry system and have decided to screw it up so that people understand that it is not a viable source of information anymore.

I would love it to be true, but am not holding high hopes for it.
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Valve with that Michael Scott technology
 
How on god's green earth is Halo 3 going to be on steam?

Halo 3 is like, what, 5 years old?

Do they even have the source code? Is 343i going to port it? With all the back end plumbing on that game it seems like a super huge task to do for very little possible gain.

edit: the only reason I could see this happening is some panic-mode Windows 8 hail mary. But then I would think they'd want it in their own walled garden and not Valve's.
 
I think I am going to give up on Steam Linux, can't get any of my games to run and I am running out space anyway, cannot remote install tf2 on another drive :|
 
nexen said:
How on god's green earth is Halo 3 going to be on steam?

Halo 3 is like, what, 5 years old?

Do they even have the source code? Is 343i going to port it? With all the back end plumbing on that game it seems like a super huge task to do for very little possible gain.

edit: the only reason I could see this happening is some panic-mode Windows 8 hail mary. But then I would think they'd want it in their own walled garden and not Valve's.
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Their walled garden isn't really built for large games like Halo.
 
nexen said:
How on god's green earth is Halo 3 going to be on steam?

Halo 3 is like, what, 5 years old?

Do they even have the source code? Is 343i going to port it? With all the back end plumbing on that game it seems like a super huge task to do for very little possible gain.

edit: the only reason I could see this happening is some panic-mode Windows 8 hail mary. But then I would think they'd want it in their own walled garden and not Valve's.
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1. Microsoft has pretty much ditched GFWL
2. Most publishers are shying away from GFWLaltogether (Capcom, Codemasters, Rockstar...etc*)
3. Microsoft has already posted games on Steam before.
4. Some of the recent indie games that were Xbox Live exclusives are now on Steam.
5. apparently Windows 8 store cannot support these games as they do not meet the requirements.
 
MRORANGE said:
1. Microsoft has pretty much ditched GFWL
2. Most publishers are shying away from GFWLaltogether (Capcom, Codemasters, Rockstar...etc*)
3. Microsoft has already posted games on Steam before.
4. Some of the recent indie games that were Xbox Live exclusives are now on Steam.
5. apparently Windows 8 store cannot support these games as they do not meet the requirements.
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I get all that, but ... Halo 3? They'd have to go digging through source control to get a workable version and then spend a lot of money to port it to pc. It is 5 years old and it would be kind of weird from a PR standpoint when they are trying to prove that 343i can carry the torch.
It is just odd. I believe everything else on that list that I noticed.
 
Microsoft really didn't think about PC gaming on Windows 8 did they? or are they just really focused on tablet/mobile gaming for PC instead?

I don't blame them if it's the latter.
 
MRORANGE said:
Microsoft really didn't think about PC gaming on Windows 8 did they? or are they just really focused on tablet/mobile gaming for PC instead?

I don't blame them if it's the latter.
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Windows and PCs are for Office and time wasters like facebook, angry birds, minesweeper and solitaire.

Xbox is for games.

Why would people want to play games at their desks where they do their work when they can have comfy couch, less angular graphics, more cinematic framerates, etc?
 
nexen said:
I get all that, but ... Halo 3? They'd have to go digging through source control to get a workable version and then spend a lot of money to port it to pc. It is 5 years old and it would be kind of weird from a PR standpoint when they are trying to prove that 343i can carry the torch.
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A title like Halo will easily re-cooperate its costs within a few hours, stump mentioned that Alan Wake made up it's development cost for PC in less than 48 hours, Halo should take a lot less time.

It's the end of the product cycle there is no real harm to 343i if they decide to port their old games to PC.
 
MrNyarlathotep said:
Windows and PCs are for Office and time wasters like facebook, angry birds, minesweeper and solitaire.

Xbox is for games.

Why would people want to play games at their desks where they do their work when they can have comfy couch, less angular graphics, more cinematic framerates, etc?
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Cinematic frame rates are 24hz, except for the Hobbit. Just sayin'.


MRORANGE said:
A title like Halo will easily re-cooperate its costs within a few hours, stump mentioned that Alan Wake made up it's development cost for PC in less than 48 hours, Halo should take a lot less time.

It's the end of the product cycle there is no real harm to 343i if they decide to port their old games to PC.
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Still seems such an odd choice to me. *shrug* It has to be windows 8 only, somehow.
 
MRORANGE said:
Microsoft really didn't think about PC gaming on Windows 8 did they? or are they just really focused on tablet/mobile gaming for PC instead?

I don't blame them if it's the latter.
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Isn't it both?

It feels like Microsoft gave up on the platform once they noticed that they couldn't charge for GFWL.

They've been sticking their head out periodically with minimal effort in order to assess whether they should care or not.
 
Iron Badger said:
I wish Namco would've released Pac-Man DX on Steam before being handed a nice wad of Microsoft cash to put it on Windows 8
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I saw something called PAC-MAN in the registry today. I was going to post about it until I saw a second one called PAC-MAN Pizza Parlor.

I threw up for a bit and forgot about it.
 
I have a feeling with as loosely as people have been talking about it and posting links to sites that display that info, we won't be looking at the registry for much longer.
 
morningbus said:
I have a feeling with as loosely as people have been talking about it and posting links to sites that display that info, we won't be looking at the registry for much longer.
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People have been doing that since forever. It was hardly a secret we were keeping from Valve or anything.

That's why everything is called ValveTestAppXXXXX instead of the real names, it's just that the community pages created a new loophole that they'll close again.
 
ArjanN said:
People have been doing that since forever. It was hardly a secret we were keeping from Valve or anything.

That's why everything is called ValveTestAppXXXXX instead of the real names, it's just that the community pages created a new loophole that they'll close again.
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Well, I mean, that's kind of what I'm talking about.

Things keep getting easier and Valve will start plugging holes until we can't look at it at all anymore.

Remember when you had to install some skeezy Russian software to view registry entries?
 
I don't understand how that Steam registry website works. Does it access the Steam database? Why isn't it password protected or anything?
 
JaseC said:
The info itself is just stored in ClientRegistry.blob
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You mean THE ClientRegistry.blob? The one whose deletion is the solution to every Steam-related problem? I had no idea that Valve stored all the catalog locally on every PC, that's totally weird to me.
 
RionaaM said:
You mean THE ClientRegistry.blob? The one whose deletion is the solution to every Steam-related problem? I had no idea that Valve stored all the catalog locally on every PC, that's totally weird to me.
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That is the one

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Half life 3 has to be in there somewhere.
 
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