forget my other comment, I read yours wrong but it seems I can't delete or edit the other one

that's not what a zero-sum game is

Oh sure, I was talking about the current state of gaming on linux. If the Steambox is ever released as a console it will already have a much bigger library than any other at release and it might finally make companies port games to linux. The problem with your post now is that we have no news regarding the steambox.

I hate microsoft to the bone and when I read the title I thought they would be paying for video recorded or something, I was fairly disappointed to known that it was actually kind of reasonable, at least for people that think it's reasonable to buy crippled locked down hardware in the first place, hardware that have no advantage whatsoever over the PC. The only thing that makes it looks kind of bad for MS is the fact that the same service is supposedly free on the playstation.

From my 110 games library 32 are compatible with linux and 15 of those are half-life. Also I do no special effort to purchase linux games. It's still too little for me to even consider suggesting linux for gaming for my friends as something viable. Of course on the other hand having games on linux means that you might be able to do some really awesome stuff like assembling portable gaming device that plays steam games. Given the amount of awesome games that uses few resources these days like FTL it might actually be a really good idea.

Strangely I feel like trusting the judgement of someone who has. Stupid right?

Gotta tell you man, I'm not light about my gaming, I play all genres, during many hours. That's pratically all I do in my free time. I'm the ~1000 hours clocked into the Monster Hunter franchise, ~400 hours into the X universe, ~250 hours into the borderlands franchise kind of gamer and I really don't get all the bro's resistance to these gimmics, they aways look so awesome to me.
I'm also very carefull and wait to see if anyone will make good use of them but this one in particular seems to have much more potential than most gimmics.
Having said that this is a microsoft product and I won't play a xbox even if people paid me to do so. The only good thing out of it will probably be the youtube experimentation videos just like with kinectic.
Also, the Oculus rift will render it obsolete anyway.

Earth in Star Treck is a utopia so there is no marketing

Oh my god you're right, they are giving everyone a quite easy way to shut off all xboxes around the world. Oh god this will be glorious, I think I just learned to stop worrying and love the DRM.

The best analogy comes from 4chan: "It's like a car that needs to be tuned in to a certain station all the time for the engines to work".
Since the it's the xbox we're talking about I feel the need to add: the station only broadcasts nazi propaganda.

and if it's a jj abrams movie there will be a devil particle that is just plain plastic except alien and explained on a over complicated way.

In the videogame industry it seems that you have a way bigger chance to be conned by big companies than kickstarter pledges and indie developers. It would be nice to have some data on it. Granted, in both acts you take a risk but you seem to get what you ask for more regulary in kickstarters.

Or maybe it's just the price. I for one buy anything for 20 dollars or less even if this is the release price, even if I'm not sure I'll have time to play the game. I bought Torchlight 2 at release price since here in brazil it was the equivalent of 17 USD, also Borderlands 2 at 50% discount (~23 USD).

I might be really wrong but I believe he was really talking about drivers for the hardware that came out a decade earlier too. Maybe I'm reading too much into it huh?

AMD is the company that ignored linux for the most time, I prefer the lesser of two evils, I'll stick with nvidia for a while.

This sounds like a bad thing, thanks god it doesn't fucking exists outside TFA and TFS. Now what does exist is bad a good programmers, just as always.