Steam Box beta

gflood

Hi, here is the link go qualify for the Steam box beta test.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

To that effect, I need some more Steam friends. please add me :-)

cimande

cheers

Lu Tze

gflood wrote: »

Hi, here is the link go qualify for the Steam box beta test.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

To that effect, I need some more Steam friends. please add me :-)

cimande

cheers

Sent you an invite there

degrassinoel

chances of getting into that are astronomical, but hey.. if you're not in..

steam profile

add me if you're still looking for more

EDDIE WATERS

My steam name The-Joker-Beyond

Clover

Need a few more myself; steam profile

Dacelonid

gflood wrote: »

Hi, here is the link go qualify for the Steam box beta test.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

To that effect, I need some more Steam friends. please add me :-)

cimande

cheers

EDDIE WATERS wrote: »

My steam name The-Joker-Beyond

Clover wrote: »

Need a few more myself; steam profile

Friend Invites sent, steam name is the same as boards

SmurfX

Have entered it already myself (for that 0.000000000000000000001% chance :pac:) but happy to add anyone who needs some more.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/smurfsdabomb/

Vojera

Invite sent. Anyone else who needs more friends can feel free to add me. Steam id: snugglor

Thecageyone

cagey75 here

Feel free to add.

It would be nice to see at least one from here get it and share their experience

zero19

zero86r, need some more buddies here too

Glebee

Same here, Steam name is Glebe

CasualLiKE

Add me guys; Paradicia.

allanb49

feel free to add me already entered but every little helps

allanb49

gflood

Thanks everyone, registered and all set (in the draw I mean).

Sierra Oscar

Best of luck!

I wonder what sort of NDA will they have in place? Will friends be able to play it, or will it be strictly controlled? Should be interesting to see.

Genghiz Cohen

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Best of luck!

I wonder what sort of NDA will they have in place? Will friends be able to play it, or will it be strictly controlled? Should be interesting to see.

Everything else about this is open so I'd be surprised if there were any restrictions.

Mickeroo

Stop adding people, you're reducing my chances of getting picked!!! :mad:

























Only messing :pac: If anyone needs another feel free to add me. Steam name is the same as here like it says in my sig.

Banjo

Whoring for friend requests!
http://steamcommunity.com/id/nunberry
And apologies to those of you whom I have already spammed

wyrn

Well I only need one more friend to be eligible. My poor profile is a little sparse. I doubt I'm in with much of a chance at all. I'm not very community based and that will go against me.

Sierra Oscar - I was wondering the same thing and what would be included on the NDA.

Pity the poor people having to organise and whittle down to the 300 participants out of all the potential candidates.

nesf

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Best of luck!

I wonder what sort of NDA will they have in place? Will friends be able to play it, or will it be strictly controlled? Should be interesting to see.

From their blurb:

Will beta testers be allowed to share info about their experience and post pictures and opinions online?
Yes, that really is the whole point. The input from testers should come in many forms: bug reports, forum posts, concept art, 3D prints, haikus, and also very publicly stated opinions.

Mswifter

any adding would be appreciated http://steamcommunity.com/id/Swiftlink

Boysey

Hey Everyone,

I'm in need of a few more Steam Friends too - I've sent on some Invites, feel free to add me if you need to...

http://steamcommunity.com/id/boystrous/

Cheers
James

Antar Bolaeisk

degrassinoel wrote: »

chances of getting into that are astronomical, but hey.. if you're not in..

steam profile

add me if you're still looking for more

Currently a little more than 300,000 eligible so really your chances currently are 1 in 319,392

Besides, astronomical chances aren't so bad any more, it's when your odds are economical in number that you can pretty much give up hope

Genghiz Cohen

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Currently a little more than 300,000 eligible so really your chances currently are 1 in 319,392

Besides, astronomical chances aren't so bad any more, it's when your odds are economical in number that you can pretty much give up hope

Well actually it's 300/300,000 so our chances are 1/1000

Jonny7

Hmmm

The steam boxes they will sell appear to be nothing more than mini-itx computers with the same off the shelf components as a .. normal gaming PC

If they have the same components - they are surely going to sell for the same price

Essentially it's just a smaller repackaged PC with an accessible gaming platform

A bit like a console/PC hybrid. The prices on these things will no doubt reflect the cost of the hardware, so depending on configuration the median price should be approx 700 to 800 euros...

Perhaps they'll see the box at cost price with later profits taken on steam games sales? even then they'll still be pretty expensive, there isn't much of a margin on intel or AMD chips

I still think it's a good idea, and will appeal to gamers who want PC games and graphics without the headache of putting together a gaming PC or buying a lemon

Vojera

Will you be able to change components, e.g. gpu? Just wondering because with consoles you will always be able to play a ps4 game on your ps4, no matter how good the graphics get, but pc gaming isn't the same. What I'm wondering is will there come a point where your steam box won't be able to play newer games? Will you have to buy a whole new updated steam box or will you be able to improve it as you go?

Also, anyone who has friended me and I haven't accepted, I've been playing on origin this week (dun dun dun! But Alice: Madness Returns on origin was 10% the price of what it was on Steam, so I make no apologies) but I will get around to accepting you today

Sierra Oscar

Vojera wrote: »

Will you be able to change components, e.g. gpu?

Yeah you can, Valve have said that they will all be 'modular' in nature which basically means you can upgrade them yourself.

blatantrereg

SmurfX wrote: »

Have entered it already myself (for that 0.000000000000000000001% chance :pac:) but happy to add anyone who needs some more.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/smurfsdabomb/

By your calculations there will be 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 applicants.

Player 2

I suspect that games on Steam would have to be rated somehow; for folks who aren't particularly familiar with hardware specs.
i.e. "This game requires a level 5 Steambox or above".

Or better still, games on the Steam store should check your hardware vs. the requirements of the specific game you're looking at. (Does it do this already? i.e. "Just so you know; if you buy this game, you won't be able to run it on this machine").

Mickeroo

If the higher end ones compete with the likes of PS4 and XB-1 price wise they could blow them out of he water imo. Even just 100 euro more and I'd go for a steambox over one of them no problem.

Doge

Valve 300:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450

How the hell is a 450W PSU able to power a GTX780 and Intel i7-4770???

I thought they would need a lot more power than that, at least 600W.

blatantrereg

waveform wrote: »

Valve 300:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450

How the hell is a 450W PSU able to power a GTX780 and Intel i7-4770???

I thought they would need a lot more power than that, at least 600W.

259W with those items only and arbitrary selections of 4 sticks ddr3 RAM and one hard drive. Did not include fans/cooling etc or any other devices. - According to http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

I think they'll make these available at very good prices for the hardware, but set up to make playing pirated games difficult.

waveform

waveform wrote: »

Valve 300:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450

How the hell is a 450W PSU able to power a GTX780 and Intel i7-4770???

I thought they would need a lot more power than that, at least 600W.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6973/nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-review/19

A full system with GTX780 and i7-3960X is pulling 405W from the wall. System builders tend to overestimate power requirements.

NTMK

Mickeroo wrote: »

If the higher end ones compete with the likes of PS4 and XB-1 price wise they could blow them out of he water imo. Even just 100 euro more and I'd go for a steambox over one of them no problem.

there isnt a hope of that tbh unless nvidia do a cut down deal as a GTX780 on its own costs more than the console.

The GTX760 i5 model will beat a console easily and if they can get that into console RRP's.

Antar Bolaeisk

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Well actually it's 300/300,000 so our chances are 1/1000

Er.... That's not quite how it works.

Banjo

Player 2 wrote: »

I suspect that games on Steam would have to be rated somehow; for folks who aren't particularly familiar with hardware specs.
i.e. "This game requires a level 5 Steambox or above".

There's a part of me that wants us all to start with Level 1 Steamboxes, but as you defeat games and complete challenges the Steambox levels up and becomes more powerful, gains custom perks (Instaboot! +3 against Dazed n Confused! Physics CoProcessor!) eventually specialising in one of several roles based around the prime stats of CPU, Graphics and Memory.

I think I need to step away from the PC and go outside for a while...

Genghiz Cohen

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Er.... That's not quite how it works.

Sure it is.

Mr Bloat

Banjo wrote: »

There's a part of me that wants us all to start with Level 1 Steamboxes, but as you defeat games and complete challenges the Steambox levels up and becomes more powerful, gains custom perks (Instaboot! +3 against Dazed n Confused! Physics CoProcessor!) eventually specialising in one of several roles based around the prime stats of CPU, Graphics and Memory.

I think I need to step away from the PC and go outside for a while...

Great idea! I could see it changing size and shape as it levels. It starts off looking like a Portal companion cube under your TV and finishes looking like GLaDOS, hanging from the ceiling and interrogating you when you enter the room.

blatantrereg

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Sure it is.

It is how it works, but there are sometimes over 6,000,000 Steam users online concurrently. The total number of active accounts would be much higher. There might be far more than 300k applicants.

Also there will be 25 awarded to users based on community contributions. You would need to have made some extraordinary contributions to be in the top 25 worldwide. So 275 will be available in the lottery.

Robert ninja

^


So you're telling me there's a chance.

nesf

Deleted User wrote: »

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6973/nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-review/19

A full system with GTX780 and i7-3960X is pulling 405W from the wall. System builders tend to overestimate power requirements.

System builders put in an overhead for upgrading in the future without needing a new PSU since they can last a good number of years. Also, erring on the side of caution when advising people is a good idea, there is more than just a CPU and GPU drawing power and if someone starts adding tons of HDDs and you gave them only a little headroom...

Myrddin

Moved to Steam & Valve forum

Sierra Oscar

The deadline for gaining the required badge to allow entry into the draw for the prototype testing is fast approaching. The deadline is this Friday!

Corkfeen

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

The deadline for gaining the required badge to allow entry into the draw for the prototype testing is fast approaching. The deadline is this Friday!

I had signed up within 6 minutes of link going live. I think I may be overly obsessed.

wyrn

Best of luck to everyone. It'll be interesting to see the breakdown when successful applicants are chosen. It would be great if one of the lucky winners are a boards member.

What am I saying, it'd be great if I won!

Bloodwing

I'd appreciate if a few people could add me as a friend. I'm a "few" short of the ten!! I promise lots of photos/ info if when I win.

My steam ID is neilo86

here's the link http://steamcommunity.com/id/neilo86

Cheers.

Sierra Oscar

Bloodwing wrote: »

I'd appreciate if a few people could add me as a friend. I'm a "few" short of the ten!! I promise lots of photos/ info if when I win.

My steam ID is neilo86

here's the link http://steamcommunity.com/id/neilo86

Cheers.

Says the profile could not be found when I click on the link! Is the profile private perhaps?

Bloodwing

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Says the profile could not be found when I click on the link! Is the profile private perhaps?

Should be working now. I done goofed. Cheers.

wyrn

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Says the profile could not be found when I click on the link! Is the profile private perhaps?

Oh you accept his friends request?!
*note to self, one less invite for beta testing party :P

Bloodwing wrote: »

I'd appreciate if a few people could add me as a friend.

Done

Sierra Oscar

wyrn wrote: »

Oh you accept his friends request?!
*note to self, one less invite for beta testing party :P


Done

Sorry, I get around 60 spammy friend / group requests a day and I often I miss genuine invites when it comes to clearing the backlog.

PM me on your profile and I will add you.

Do we need a thread to allow people post their SC profiles to allow other forum members to add them as friends?

Bloodwing

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Do we need a thread to allow people post their SC profiles to allow other forum members to add them as friends?

Sounds like a good idea to me.