Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
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I think it would be cool as a freebie to steamOS users. Would encourage people to try out installing steamOS to get the game for free.
Could either be that they just need to try it once to claim the game, or the game is free to play as long as they stay on Linux/steamOS to encourage them to use it long enough to finish the game.
I think if they did a special launch on SteamOS and made it super polished it would be a nice demonstration... Or maybe an exclusive demo or minigame or something along those lines. They did some nifty stuff for VR this way and it got people pretty hyped about it for a while back when Vive launched.
the obvious thing to me is just treating linux as the primary platform and treating windows like everyone else treats linux.
"yeah sure you can run it on windows if you want, try WSL or something i guess. good luck!"