UNEXPECTED Publisher hands Valve another Steam Deck WIN!

[@jalexandre0]

Sorry for audio problem? But the audio is fine man! =)

[@grandmoffporkins]

Agreed. Having had to edit some truly atrocious audio many times (often self-inflicted), I can’t hear it man

[@ubermut]

Sounds great as always

[@DjEloy]

No real issue, it sounds fine

[@hornantuutti5157]

My chinese phone and its mono speaker wont hear differwnse lol

[@mattcy6591]

7:40 honestly browsing the store on steam deck is a pain in the ass and I avoid it when possible. If you see a game, click into it to check out the details, and then click back to return where you left off and continue browsing, it never continues where you left off and you have to scroll back down to get to where you were. This lack of continuity needs to be fixed. It's been years.

[@NerdNest]

Yes, this drives me up the wall

[@Talon18136]

I always look at protondb when browsing the store to see how well that game will run quite a few work Ive only had one issue where the game was said to work well but didn’t so I refunded it and got three other games for that same price but as far as the UX it could use some work in the storefront for game mode but I mainly browse the store in desktop mode plugged into my dock so I can utilize it while it’s on monitors

[@JM-pm1yb]

I just use my phone app. Using the device never works for me

[@mattcy6591]

@@JM-pm1ybyeah. Which is odd because the steam deck isn't the product. Steam itself and its games is the product and the steam deck is just a front facing interface to connect you to products. You would think removing any friction to buying games would be a higher priority.

[@kohiek]

It's still a hundred times better than the E-shop.

[@bpdcraft]

Ubisoft targeting Windows only is their decision, but it just takes very little effort to let Valve know like: "Hey, we're going to publish this update in a few days, just letting you know if you need to make any changes for Proton so you're somewhat prepared."

[@jarod1701]

The market share for Linux gaming is at 2%. Why would Ubisoft care about the Steam Deck?

[@hornantuutti5157]

That 2% is still alot of people and possible customers. If only 10% of linux users buy a game from them it is alot of money.

[@thatzaliasguy]

​@@jarod1701we're actually at 4% as of literally last weekend.

[@jarod1701]

@@thatzaliasguy I was talking about market share regarding gaming, not desktop installations.

[@TheViralKontent]

@@jarod1701 do you do understand that there are a billion Steam accounts? 2% of a billion is 20 million possible target accounts.

[@TheDarkKratoz]

Calling it now; EA will break the Deck compatibility promise with Dragon Age within 2 years. BioWare can posture all they want but EA will eventually make the change.

[@lanedj801]

When your company is integrated with gamepass I’m pretty sure Microsoft can hint your company around in ways that benefit that partnership.

[@maddoggaming1171]

I really hate when companies force you to use their launcher to play their game you bought on Steam. This was the main reason I ultimately decided not to pick up the Mass Effect trilogy even though it was only $6, I was only interested in playing through it on the deck and the possibility for future problems trying to play it was an immediate non starter for me.

[@zackbob6]

I will give props to EA as they recently also removed the EA app requirement from It Takes Two on Steam

[@haysen123]

but thats it

[@swirl44]

I understand Valve is a lean company and adding a bunch of employees can cause more chaos instead of speeding things along. But I would love for more people to be hired on specifically for the steam deck. The fact that we still don't have SteamOS for all PCs and the long-awaited ability to dual-boot into Windows or SteamOS, is really disappointing.

[@Supermath101]

Why doesn't something like Bazzite work for your use case?

[@Spencerwalker21]

​@@Supermath101it's probably shite

[@GXShade]

The biggest hold up is NVIDIA

[@antwanowens4013]

That’s what most of us is waiting for there was a leak last week from Microsoft but not a date

[@antwanowens4013]

That’s what most of us is waiting for there was a leak last week from Microsoft but not a date most likely there waiting on steam to release the SD2 another yr are so

[@aftertheshowmoviepodcast]

Don't hear any echo in the audio

[@LSOK38]

I browse games and demos on my tablet but some demos are on my tablet but not accessible on my steam deck's steam side. I was told by Valve to go to the desk top and download those demos on the desktop side then transfer them to the steam side which is a real pain in the butt because of the small print and I also lack a keyboard & have to use the virtual keyboard. I can now buy it in my tablet and have it go directly to my library. Later I can download the game itself to my deck. Thank you Valve!

[@SoundToxin]

I like your audio quality and that you speak fluidly without a lot of jump cuts.

[@floggingluna]

The reason for steam deck verification for Dragon Age is that BG3 still is the most played steam deck title. They want that audience.

[@jasper265]

In discovery, the lawyers do not get to see the redactions. It's basically just removing information from the documents that you're not forced to share. And the reason this is called a "a leak" is that it was redacted improperly. Basically, a PDF that had black boxes that would work if printed, but weren't enough for sending the document digitally. Other than that, great video, as always!

[@WalterRiggs]

1:02 Listening on some good headphones. I didn’t know the difference, to be honest.

[@hueypautonoman]

I wonder if Valve maybe added a little incentive for EA, such as a discount on their cut of the EA Play subscriptions.

[@lanedj801]

Yeah or gave the employees steam decks or hardware discounts for supporting valve. Valve makes hand over fist, they should start throwing that money at problems and speed up the process outside the company.

[@donniedarko4497]

Love the shirt Bill. I'm now seeing I need to really step up my Florida Man attire

[@johnknight9150]

You'd think someone at the offices of these places would have a Deck and say "Yeah, it doesn't work now".

[@Joffrey373]

The elephant analogy was pretty spot on

[@lanedj801]

But also we will be on steamdeck 3 while still arguing about this while Microsoft buys up every developer for gamepass contracts that exclude Linux development.

[@FlukasMcDoogle]

Hey, you guys sounded pretty good as those announcers. Thats so cool! Well done and congrats!!!

[@Brandon-dq3vx]

You should voice more games, that sounded really really good

[@cinnabarsin4288]

Really hope EA removes the launcher from the existing DA games (and ME trilogy while they're at it) too like they did for It Takes Two. Would buy that stuff again if it was suddenly seamless to play on Deck.

[@Rhomagus]

79 people working on Steam? How many people does it take to fix browsing the Steam community and forums on the Deck?

[@HearMeLearn]

80

[@Ignas_]

It takes time and effort, not people

[@Mmmmmk247]

And the app for that matter. It’s mid at best

[@mirage1857]

I love the hand held gaming device market. I have a Deck, a Legion Go, and an ROG ally. I replaced my ~$1500 desktop (broken by water dumped into on accident by my at the time 6 year old son), with the Legion go. I use my deck daily, mostly for youtube and sometimes for games. the ally I never use. its the kids.

[@l3lue7hunder12]

I'd like for the "Steam Console" to be the same as the Deck 2 and mostly identical to the Deck 1, just docked to a decent low power eGPU supporting both Steam and standard controllers. With this, Valve would gain enough presence to be the fourth offering beside Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, forcing game studios to at least support Proton based gaming.

[@MrBigken34]

Audio is just fine.

[@HealyHQ]

You have a really good announcer voice.

[@RyanParreno]

good on EA and Bioware but I would phrase it differently. You don't just hand over Steam Deck compatibility like this; that's extra programming work that they had to factor into how much it cost to make it. Bioware must have convinced EA that this was the right thing to do, especially since they want to ensure Dragon Age's revival is successful

[@XGD5layer]

I wouldn't have considered the new DA installment if it couldn't run on the Deck, even if it was good. Now I have to consider it.

[@lanedj801]

Valve should give developers and publishers a discount on hardware for supporting systems. Give them a deck and convince them by first handheld experience.

[@EridenEstrella]

Audio is perfecto bro! Keep rocking!!!

[@NatsumeKonno]

Unless steamos adds there own frame generation built in like FSR. Windows OS is the way to go all because of lossless scailing. It makes handhelds so powerfull.

[@josephhall7317]

I know it's probably expected, but has anyone noticed their left joystick getting more loose, like less pressure to move around than the right joystick? Still works completely fine, just frustrating for a device I paid $700.92 on

[@lanedj801]

Valve makes soo much money and doesn’t throw money into contracts that benefit their device. They are literally living on prayers for support while sitting on a vault of persuasion. The Subscription service is controlling the market and valve wants nothing to do with it. They need to start convincing these dev guys that money is dangling from the steam deck.

[@BarronTube]

Hope they do the same for Dragon Age Inquisition. It will not launch properly on my steam deck and I never figured it out.

[@JasonEvangelho]

I'm listening on a great system, and honestly the audio is superb.

[@AIChameleonMusic]

The companies do this out of a lack of empathy and abundance of ignorance and greed. Worse its self defeating to ruin potential sales or future sales for that matter with little more than ignorance or negligence as the excuse. This is precisely why we need to be less "blind consumers" and pay attention to how these companies treat us and who we support.

[@ShanGamer1981]

ubisoft hasnt gotten my money in years so no loss

[@kindpanda1075]

If they really do these things I will probably buy it on launch if reviews are okay. I normally wait patiently for sales. I bought Elden Ring at launch because of the support also. Bioware should get the other Dragon Age games at least upgraded to playable. The experience on the Deck is MUCH, MUCH better than on PC for controller players. I miss my steam controller...

[@user-tz3zn2kz8w]

I'm planning on making an ITX SteamOS pc later this year or early next year because I want a console like experience for my pc games without having to deal with Microsoft.

[@kohiek]

HOLY CRAP!!!!!! 79!!!! How is Epic Store so BAD?!!!?!! Epic can't pay to hire like 200 devs just to make and improve their store? Do they only have like 20? Or are the devs that work on Steam just the same ones that started 20 years ago? Like I seriously don't understand how less than 100 devs can make the best PC gaming store for 2 decades straight.

[@mirage1857]

The recording feature sucks right now on linux at least. I tell it to store my recordings on my raid array but it still uses my nvme. Sure I /could/ solve the issue with symlinks but I don't want to.

[@CasualGamingCorner]

Congrats on the Dudelings collab!

[@NerdNest]

Thank you!!

[@arranmc182]

Been using Steam on Linux since it first dropped and its so much better than ever now more games than ever just work on Linux now

[@nayflowem6652]

I love this device more and more man

[@B_Machine]

"That's not our problem, that's a Valve problem..." Ubisoft, what about the customers playing your games? Don't you think it's their problem that you caused? Or is that not even worth a mention?🤦 When Valve drops a home entertainment console, companies taking the cheap route now are going to have to scramble to put together a linux anti cheat/drm. Until then though, it's frustrating.

[@arranmc182]

Valve need to make some Steam API tools for porting the games to Proton or even Native Linux, untill valv e creates some kind of API/Software this will always be an issue, also maybe lave need to start sending decks out to some more developers

[@oldtools6089]

automatically removing an item in my library is what I expect when I remove something from my library. go figure.

[@thexavier666]

Your announcer voice is awesome

[@maikal87]

Listening from my phone, your audio is good.

[@SeyePhi]

70k awesome Bill🎉

[@oldtools6089]

sometimes, it's too easy and so in times like those there are ambulance-chasing vultures of opportunity and some people call it capitalism

[@theevildice83]

Am I crazy or does the audio sound absolutely fine?

[@theshepard22]

Hey, anyone know if Black Myth:Wukong will likey run okay on the deck?!?

[@grandmoffporkins]

Bill, you have an excellent announcer’s voice

[@MickBenjamins]

Congrats on being in a game, that's awesome! :D

[@keepitshort4208]

What audio issue ? you sound better than me in person 😂

[@Kinos141]

Audio's good.

[@accelement3499]

I just pirate the games that need drm or launchers someone else already fixed the issue and since the game was not made for me to enjoy I don't see not paying as an issue if you want my money put your game on steam without a launcher or drm..... Great content as always bro!!!!

[@ralphwishart]

If steam wants to really make Linux an attractive is for both gamers and studios, the need to release steam OS for PC.

[@thetower8553]

12:04 Microspy 😂

[@Dhilloninuk]

I use steam app on my ipad to explore store games.

[@prodeous]

Any updates on SteamOS for PC? i'd be glad to ditch Windows (or put it in VM for games that wouldn't work).. Wonder why Valve is not pushing harder on this front.

[@Talon18136]

The lawsuit probably and only have 79 people on just steam

[@toploaded2078]

EA get a lot of shit and rightly so - so lets acknowledge and praise them actually listening to what many of us want. This was not a game I'd have gotten day one normally, but I will make of point of picking this up on release.

[@FierroSev]

It is crazy that this is a win, while on windows it is a non-issue. This is why linux us a non-starter for me.

[@bluefizz5455]

Just need the window release to steam deck oled already

[@KlingonGamerYT]

i post a lot of steam deck gameplay showing it works... madness algorithm

[@slcainehmierz7681]

Maybe EA is scared about the success of DA:TV because as far as my knowlegdes carries me it will be also a modernity disaster. So they try to get as many buyers as possible with making it avialable for Steam Deck.

[@cloudiolology]

my glass is empty! *looks at a full glass* but you may be onto something. bah this world is an ass. i really hope you don't get to "i told you so!" j

[@X862go]

Hey bill it running absolutely amazing on the ally X 😅

[@noofuu2208]

They get money from Microsoft for that ? I hate EA and Ubisoft they are not for the Gamers with er stupid dlc and ingame Shops shit...

[@Heldermaior]

These companies will come around imho. Steam deck is selling orders of magnitude more than any other handheld. And rhe base keeps on growing. There are a few million of us already. Valve is doing what it needs to do. Fix things for now... As the userbase grows. EA's approach woth their biggest launch of this generation so far is basically them going "ok... We need to listen to these people". And they need a success. If they fuck this up after Battlefield debacles and so forth... Uuuufff... It must be starting to hurt. I would be curious to see how their football game is doing as they lost Fifa licence so not sure how that impact their bottom line.

[@Talon18136]

That’s my view as well it won’t be long there are already devs that port games to Linux and the great thing about the deck is that it knows it’s running Linux so if you buy a game that has both the windows symbol and the Linux symbol it will automatically choose the Linux port when booting on the deck but on a windows machine it will choose the windows version it’s honestly a good system and works well

[@mojojojo1529]

I just would like to point out that you should not eat elephants.

[@NerdNest]

Fair.

[@MaTiCeK]

If only EA added Steam deck support to their FC games…

[@ColeMay]

Who the hell is eating elephant?

[@renkuria]

Veilguard offended their entire customer base, i doubt this will change anything.

[@NerdNest]

Offended?

[@anro_gaming]

Ubisoft already dead for me for along time, capcom on the other hand ... Sigh 😮

[@velveteenv76]

Never own an Xbox, got as high as PS2, WiiU for nintendo, 3ds XL also for nintendo. I use my SteamDeck 85% of the time, 10% PC (which my wife likes that im not hogging the TV), and 5% on my Retroid 2+. If a game is not on PC, im not getting.

[@nunyabidnes6010]

Congrats? Here you go 🍪

[@velveteenv76]

@nunyabidnes6010 woot a cookie, thanks friend!

[@meh78336]

If the 360 Fable type cartoony looking game, that carries the Dragon Age name, didn't run well on a potato, I would be surprised. Nice to see EA devs supporting low end out of the box, hard to feel excited though when its this abomination. That said, EA have not won worst company of the year for multiple years in a row for no reason, so they can't be trusted.

[@NOSE-em2xb]

This is good news!

[@SanOcelotl]

I dont trust EA but lets hope they are not lying

[@Talon18136]

Best not to trust them

[@stubbornoneyt]

veilguard looks horrible. but its cool that steam deck is getting some love

[@HiTechLoLife]

Veilguard got SD Verification before an actual release date... It's hard to take this SD Verified rating seriously when we've seen the likes of Remnant II and The Last of Us Part 1 rated verified pre release, only for both games to run extremely poorly on Deck. Both of which have been rerated after the fact but there's no telling if Valve actually learned from their mistakes or if they're about to fall into another verification fiasco.

[@deathshade777]

They don’t have to care. The steam deck is and has been obsolete for awhile. The second the first rog ally released the steamdeck was dead. Now you have a steamdeck for the same price as the original ally while playing everything 40% worse. Then claim oh it’s a oled screen. No oled is 1 terrible for games because of static images. 2 rog ally has vrr that alone allows it to destroy not only the steamdeck but every other windows handheld. Now that the x exists everything is obsolete.

[@jredubr]

So this is the guy who makes some steam deck journalism videos but says he's no journalist so he can't criticize anything...

[@NerdNest]

I'm not a journalist, I'm some doofus in his attic. Comparing what I do to what actual journalists do is insulting to journalists.

[@churchofsatan2041]

Those 79 ppl must get paid very well

[@alandiegovillalobos]

Nice

[@bulwinkle]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@pxkqd]

Talk with the wallet, and not buy anything not supported.

[@bpdcraft]

All it takes is 1 out of touch Ubisoft Exec that has a kid with a Steam Deck to change things.

[@alandiegovillalobos]

Ok audio.

[@HaruuyukiOP]

i only wonder why companies like sega with there own anticheat can handle it no linux gamers get banned or blocked but useless AAA-gamemakers cant do it 🤣🤣🤣🤣 i say so if linux gamers are 1-2mil. and a game costs 80$ you not wanna the 80-160mil$ as a puplisher? wallbia is the best anticheat on world linux gamers and windows gamers and all console gamers can play it and i never see a bot or cheater in this games with wallbia :D

[@paulsegrue5133]

Your maths are a bit off as you are then assuming every single Linux user would be buying the game to get those sale figures of 80 to 160. You would probably only getting 5% at best.

[@o0junglist0o93]

​@paulsegrue5133 he just missed the word 'potential'

[@luisdominguez4967]

You haye the store on the steam deck never get on the nintendo switch store then 😂😂😂😂 youll want to blow your head off