Steam OS FFXIV Install?

[Yuichi]

wait till it is on steam

[nugglets]

wait till it is on steam

Even then, it won't be supported by SteamOS unless Square releases a Linux version of the game.

Not every Steam game magically runs on SteamOS, this is well documented. Valve is betting on the fact that by creating a Game-specific Linux OS more developers will port/develop games for the platform, but they can't force it or do it themselves for games from other developers.

[Yuichi]

Even then, it won't be supported by SteamOS unless Square releases a Linux version of the game.

Not every Steam game magically runs on SteamOS, this is well documented. Valve is better on the fact that by creating a Game-specific Linux OS more developers will port/develop games for the platform, but they can't force it or do it themselves for games from other developers.

So it may not run on a steam box then? I was under the impression the steam box will play all steam games.

[nugglets]

So it may not run on a steam box then? I was under the impression the steam box will play all steam games.

Unfortunately not.

[Yuichi]

Unfortunately not.

I will hold off on one then till I see list of confirmed games. Till then my pc hooked to my tv will do.

[nugglets]

I will hold off on one then till I see list of confirmed games. Till then my pc hooked to my tv will do.

I guess I should clarify a bit. You will not be able to NATIVELY run Windows games on a machine running SteamOS. Steam has said they will be updating SteamOS sometime in the future to allow you to "stream" games from your Windows-PC to the SteamOS, but how well this will work with high end games is still anyone's guess. I imagine that Valve must have faith in the idea because they believe it can work and, if that's the case, then I have faith in them to figure it out. But for now and the foreseeable future, you cannot run Windows-PC based games on SteamOS.

Directly from the SteamOS FAQ: "SteamOS is based on Debian GNU/Linux and is not compatible with Microsoft Windows games and applications. However, SteamOS will soon support seamlessly streaming your games from your Windows computer; watch this page for more information about the In-Home Streaming Beta.

You can also look here for a list of games that WILL run on SteamOS (and most other versions of Linux as well): http://store.steampowered.com/browse...?snr=1_4_4__12