{"id":2734,"date":"2013-12-01T20:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2013-12-01T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:10:49","slug":"steam-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"Steam stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">H<\/span>aving been on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2735\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2735\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-11-02_00001-150x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-11-02_00001-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-11-02_00001-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-11-02_00001-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-11-02_00001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Steam now for over 10 years (really): I remember the days that Reddit&#8217;s most popular games delivery system was oh so unstable and bug-ridden. I also remember ordering my very first Steam game on-line, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X3:_Reunion\">X3-Reunion<\/a>. It was a brilliant game that I played on a Toshiba laptop.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: Steam&#8217;s making its foray into the consoles world via their SteamOS (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SteamOS\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/livingroom\/SteamOS\/\">Valve<\/a>): a Linux-based OS that will run all current Linux Steam games. Valve is (reportedly) talking to third-party publishers to publish games for this new OS. If this concept will, lets say bear games: who knows. Generally speaking, if successful, it may finally put Linux to the fore. I&#8217;m personally excited to be able to run SteamOS on my crappy laptops.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least a critical note: I sort of agree that thanks to Steam a lot of crappy games have been published and it almost looks like game devs and publishers don&#8217;t care in what state their software is. For example, Egosoft&#8217;s &#8220;X-Rebirth&#8221;, a product that supposedly took 7 years to be developed, was released as a full product a couple of weeks ago. I&#8217;ll be frank: it&#8217;s horrible, ridden with bugs and while it works, heavily un-optimized. I gave up after playing a 9 hours into the campaign mode. I&#8217;ve yet to decide if I&#8217;ll wait for any updates or not: My impression is that while Egosoft went to the bank (&#8220;EXCELLENT SALES!!1&#8221;), that their X-Universe IP is soon to expire. I hope not, but yeah, that bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been on Steam now for over 10 years (really): I remember the days that Reddit&#8217;s most popular games delivery system was oh so unstable and bug-ridden. I also remember ordering my very first Steam game on-line, which was X3-Reunion. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[564,547,563,566,565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}