Gabe Newell OK with EA's Origin on Steam Machines

[WYP]

Valve, Unlike other platform holders like Sony and Microsoft, plan to not put any limitations on the content which can be delivered on Steam Machines and making SteamOS "as open as possible".

On Reddit Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell said;

"We're trying to make it [SteamOS] as open as possible," and "If EA wants to put Origin on it, that would be fine, etc... "

This is hardly surprising, given Valve has been very clear that Steam Machines are designed with openness in mind. However, given the recent public squabbles between Valve and Electronic Arts, Newell's comments have even more weight.

While this does not guarantee that EA will make any of their upcoming games for the Linux/Steam Machine Platforms or that there will be a Origin client available for SteamOS, this will now be an option for EA to consider.

Would you guys like to see Origin available on SteamOS? Certainly the addition of EA games to the SteamOS library would be a good thing for the OS's adoption. I guess we will have to wait and see if EA is willing to play ball.

Source - gameindustry.biz

 

[SieB]

It's good that Origin could be put on Steam OS but I don't think EA have any games that are non DirectX, so it's pretty pointless if they did put it on Steam OS. Unless the Frosbite 3 Mantle games will run on Steam OS that is.

You would of course be able to stream the Origin games via a Steambox with Steam OS, but they wont run on it natively.

 

[Conaer]

It would mean more game on Linux, just about every new EA game on PC is a Origin exclusive BF4, Sim City etc and I believe Titanfall will be an exclusive as well.

I for one would love a Linux port of BF4. :lol:

 

[DiyEyal]

More games on Linux, but I'm still more excited to stream from a windows machine.. Why? because gaming on Linux are far from good enough.. driver support sucks, games are being poorly optimized, and they look a lot less good as on DX11 (e.g: metro last light. looks much worse on Linux, and performance are really bad, I can't think of other great looking games that are available on linux)
hopefully we will see more games and better optimization and better driver support in the future.
for now the only interesting thing I can think of when I hear SteamOS is streaming from a current gaming PC to a cheap based box (like a raspberry pi)

 

[SieB]

More games on Linux, but I'm still more excited to stream from a windows machine.. Why? because gaming on Linux are far from good enough.. driver support sucks, games are being poorly optimized, and they look a lot less good as on DX11 (e.g: metro last light. looks much worse on Linux, and performance are really bad, I can't think of other great looking games that are available on linux)
hopefully we will see more games and better optimization and better driver support in the future.
for now the only interesting thing I can think of when I hear SteamOS is streaming from a current gaming PC to a cheap based box (like a raspberry pi)

Thing is though it's not more games for Linux because they won't work on Linix/steam OS. Only way to play them is to stream them from a Windows PC.

 

[SeekaX]

not gonna happen and you know it, that's like surrendering.

 

[barnsley]

EA can barely code a program that works on windows, let alone Linux.

 

[Bartacus]

Personally, I DESPISE Origin, UPlay, and all that other silly overhead crap that gets layered on top of the games I want to play, and I'd love to see that all die. Being realistic, that won't happen, but a man can dream. The more crap you put between a gamer and a game, the worse things get.

 

[Zoot]

This is good news, although I can't see Origin on SteamOS ever happening.

Valve are a company I must admit I'm starting to like a lot, with all their Linux support and embracing of open standards, also doing things like letting the developers of Black Mesa Source sell it on Steam. ^_^

Of course, I'd be much more favorable if I saw some Half-Life 3 details coming out of them.