This is an interesting take, especially coming from a non-gaming focused tech website like Ars Technica. I feel like it’s been too long since people were truly hyped about half life 3 though, and this wouldn’t be enough, even if Valve did go through with it.
People are increasingly unhappy with windows though, and the EoL of windows 10 may push people to Linux anyways.
No. Exclusives suck for everyone in the long run. In this case, it would also be pretty heavily set against the Linux / FOSS ethos, too.
probably all the fanboys will come out of the woodwork to defend it just like console exclusives
Nah sounds like a waste of time and resources to make a game built on their multiplatform engine and then lock it down to one environment.
not saying that valve would do this or that they should, but if that they did people would defend it. People defend a lot of things that don’t benefit anyone