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By time the third OS comes into play there will probably be enough shims that Valve's work will be drastically reduced. Valve is playing the long game in everyt
by downrightmike 7y ago
By time the third OS comes into play there will probably be enough shims that Valve's work will be drastically reduced. Valve is playing the long game in everything. That is their operation style. Which seems strange when most every other company is all short term profits.
- bb88 7y agoSo it seems like if they're playing the long game they would have fixed their 32 bit issues a long time ago. From a software engineering side, relying on 32 bit libraries seems like big pile of tech debt. I've been experience a similar issue trying to get people to migrate off Python 2.7. And managers keep prioritizing features over the "long game". Now if you say they're prioritizing the platforms with the larger customer bases, that makes more sense. And it's not the long game, its just enhancing the profitable side.
- downrightmike 7y agoThey did just finish a project that allows most games to be played on linux. Odds are they know what that tech debt looks like and it isn't something that has a reasonable time frame to talk about.
- gpderetta 7y agoThe vast majority of those 32 bit windows games are not written by valve. Valve in fact provides native Linux binaries for its own games (but they might still be 32 bits). Nobody is going to recompile thousands of 10 year old windows games just to please a bunch of gamers on Ubuntu.