any body got any news on steam for linux

bpb101

valve at uds
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMzI

bpb101

ITS TIME
Start a small survey for like 2 seconds to enter
http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php

Suggestion - select 32 bit ( development is only 32 bit ATM)
Ubuntu of course
Be honest ( There looking for the best development possible ( if your machine wont run the game , why bother entering))

You do need a steam account , which most of us have.
Would highly suggest everybody to enter that have am interest in this.
It would be great to get somebody here involved

matrim

Signed up now. Hopefully I get the chance

shizz

Tried to sign up but no survey was on the page. Just had a button telling me to submit my results. I clicked it without thinking really and was greeted with a sign saying thanks for doing the survey. Can't do it now...

bpb101

found the official linux beta on steam
where the announcement was , i believe. was first posted
http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410

Ste_JDM

Soon!

Speaking of wish. How many here are still rocking 12.04

bpb101

Ste_JDM wrote: »

Soon!

Speaking of wish. How many here are still rocking 12.04

na , i jump quickly to 12.10 , having a few problems ( think i have a bug), sent in a report but no news.

Amazon searches and the music store i dont like.Not many new features in it.

However , in 13.04 they are working on a secret development. looking forward to that.

Will have to format my linux on my gaming pc( on external hdd) if i'm picked as its a 64 bit

bpb101

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/valve-talk-steam-for-linux-at-uds?
Beta Access

No time frame was given for either the limited beta release or the following ‘general’ one, but Bliss did say that users ‘won’t have to wait until 2013′ to get hold of them.

Edit : http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/steam-for-linux-to-drop-mid-november?
Mid November for the general beta release

bpb101

Hey foalks for guys who fûcked up on the surveys ,you have an update your answers now.
Just try and sign up again and it will ask you do you want to update

bpb101

Folks , can I get a show of hands who have signed up for the beta

Just curious in asking

Khannie

I can't get into my steam account to reset my password without steam.....it's a catch 22.

Ah I might install it through wine over the weekend, but I'd like to sign up.

matrim

Khannie wrote: »

I can't get into my steam account to reset my password without steam.....it's a catch 22.

Ah I might install it through wine over the weekend, but I'd like to sign up.

Pretty sure I was able to do it through the website

Khannie

Nah, their site says:

The Steam client must be installed to reset your Steam account password.

bpb101

Khannie wrote: »

Nah, their site says:

you can contact them it says

bpb101

release less than 30 minutes ago ( 15 by the time i started this post )


Folks , if you didnt get an email. you waren't selected. The beta has just began
http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

Over .... wait for it..... 60,000 people signed up. This in my option is massive. considering Canonical only estimate only just over 20,000 use ubuntu . of these 60,000

“An overwhelming majority of beta applicants have reported they’re running the Ubuntu distro of Linux,” according to Frank Crockett, a member of the Steam for Linux team

"This is a huge milestone in the development of PC gaming,” according to Gabe Newell, Valve President and co-founder. “Steam users have been asking us to support gaming on Linux. We’re happy to bring rich forms of entertainment and our community of users to this open, customer-friendly platform.”


The games included are Free to play team fortress and 24 others

Edit: I wonder weather the steam linux beta was assigned to your account or what?
Either way i believe the download might be leaked.

Anybody here get on it.

shizz

bpb101 wrote: »

release less than 30 minutes ago ( 15 by the time i started this post )


Folks , if you didnt get an email. you waren't selected. The beta has just began
http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

Over .... wait for it..... 60,000 people signed up. This in my option is massive. considering only Canonical estimate only just over 20,000 use ubuntu . of these 60,000

“An overwhelming majority of beta applicants have reported they’re running the Ubuntu distro of Linux,” according to Frank Crockett, a member of the Steam for Linux team

"This is a huge milestone in the development of PC gaming,” according to Gabe Newell, Valve President and co-founder. “Steam users have been asking us to support gaming on Linux. We’re happy to bring rich forms of entertainment and our community of users to this open, customer-friendly platform.”


The games included are Free to play team fortress and 24 others

You lucky man. Keep us updated.

bpb101

shizz wrote: »

You lucky man. Keep us updated.

Im not on it.

RUCKING FETARD

bpb101 wrote: »

Over .... wait for it..... 60,000 people signed up. This in my option is massive. considering Canonical only estimate only just over 20,000 use ubuntu . of these 60,000

Even more so when you consider it barely made news on any of the tech sites.

bpb101

Finding the game list is a bit hard , as you have to search and filter so here a link for people that want to look at the prizes.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_200_200_250_12&term=#os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1

bpb101

"Steam for Linux limited beta has begun!
The first wave of welcome emails has been sent out!
If you've filled out the survey but haven't received an email don't despair. We will be expanding the beta in the future with more participants from the survey.

Thanks for all your support in getting this out the door,
the Valve Linux team" - Frank some guy that works on steam for linux

RUCKING FETARD

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Steam-Linux-Ubuntu-12.04-Big-Picture-Frank-Crockett,18958.html

bpb101

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Steam-Linux-Ubuntu-12.04-Big-Picture-Frank-Crockett,18958.html

The last setences about the linux hub , reminded me of how , a bit let down i was with the blog. It never mentioned the survey or the release of the beta .
It told readers this was where the official word would come from . - long time waiting if you were only going to follow the blogs word.

matrim

I thought Left 4 Dead 2 was supposed to be the beta launch title. How come it's not there now?

It's only Team Fortress and then a bunch of indie games that are already available on Linux.

bpb101

matrim wrote: »

I thought Left 4 Dead 2 was supposed to be the beta launch title. How come it's not there now?

It's only Team Fortress and then a bunch of indie games that are already available on Linux.

What you going to do .



Folks ive managed to bypass the steam beta even though i wasent involved in the steam beta.


Just found this now though
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/reddit-users-bypass-valve-linux-beta-invitations

Ive tried out the world of goo demo and it is working without any flaws ( that i could see)

If so many people are doing it, it wont be long until they just say Féck it and generally release it

EDIT: Benjamin Kerensa( guy who wrote the article) in the comments of that link says

I spoke with a former Canonical employee who said thought they must have left it on purpose because it was widely obvious

bpb101

was just looking around , googlimg , and reading blogs and a few people are complaining that there is only 26 games and these are indie games form the humble bundles mostly

But there are only 100 games on mac and most are dlc and indie games -so first day( of a beta of 1000 ) out to have 26 games isent bad at all.
Buth here my pain reason to post.


There is atcually loads of games planed
these include

Red orchestra (1)
killing floor
team fortress
Left for dead
limbo
link: http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=os

matrim

TBH I am a bit underwhelmed by the game selection. You would expect alot of the beta participants to already have the indie bundle games so that's nothing new or that they can't already have.

That only leaves TF2, as someone who was expecting Left For Dead 2 it is a bit underwhelming.

But I fully expect the list of games to go up pretty quickly.

bpb101

matrim wrote: »

TBH I am a bit underwhelmed by the game selection. You would expect alot of the beta participants to already have the indie bundle games so that's nothing new or that they can't already have.

That only leaves TF2, as someone who was expecting Left For Dead 2 it is a bit underwhelming.

But I fully expect the list of games to go up pretty quickly.

You cant expect valve to port all their games in such a small space of time. This makes it to get 3rd party developers to get involved.

Remember , your testing out the steam client and not the games . The Beta games are completely different as you would report a bug to the game developers.

matrim

bpb101 wrote: »

You cant expect valve to port all their games in such a small space of time. This makes it to get 3rd party developers to get involved.

Remember , your testing out the steam client and not the games . The Beta games are completely different as you would report a bug to the game developers.

I don't expect them to port all their games but I did expect them to port the game that they constantly mentioned in their blog. I'm not overtly disappointed. I know it's very early days and I'm looking forward to seeing where they go from here

Also, the install you posted above works for me and I can launch steam and see Aquaria, Penumbra and World of Goo all available for install.

For anyone who has problems launching steam, if you have an Nvidia optimus card and bumblebee installed try running "optirun steam", as I couldn't get it to start without optirun

bpb101

matrim wrote: »

I don't expect them to port all their games but I did expect them to port the game that they constantly mentioned in their blog. I'm not overtly disappointed. I know it's very early days and I'm looking forward to seeing where they go from here

Also, the install you posted above works for me and I can launch steam and see Aquaria, Penumbra and World of Goo all available for install.

For anyone who has problems launching steam, if you have an Nvidia optimus card and bumblebee installed try running "optirun steam", as I couldn't get it to start without optirun

IN fairness they said 1 supported valve game in their last blog post - we just presumed it was l4d2

i say it will be out in the coming days - probable just doing a bit of tidying up -but im just guessing

Folks just a reminder to anybody who wants to join the boards.ie steam linux group,(http://steamcommunity.com/groups/boardslinuxteam/) post a linux to your steam profile (don't give us your name - searching dosnt work.)
If you want to join but dont want to publicly post ur profile link , you can of course pm and ill add you

bpb101

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This may because they dont know about the beta - or forgot - however , even if it dosent work , money isent wasted - you can reclaim the game via the ubuntu software center ( and i presume do a steam overlap)


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