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“XBOX Support” On Steam

If you head over to the Steam Support area that Valve provides for users to resolve issues with their account, you'll notice a very inconspicuous reference to "XBOX Support" as an option in one of the initial drop down boxes. However, officially there is no version of Steam available for Xbox platforms, is this the first signs of the service on the Microsoft home console?

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Brownghost4625d ago (Edited 4625d ago )

yep would love cross platform gaming with left 4 dead man that would be amazing also with portal 2

ShinMaster4625d ago (Edited 4625d ago )

This has been on there for a while and it's only for support of Valve games on 360. Nothing new.

Anon19744624d ago

That's kinda what I was thinking. Isn't this just a support section for Valve products for the 360?

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Solidus187-SCMilk4624d ago

that would be cool if it happened, I would still buy valve stuff on PC. Source games are one thing that my old PC can run better than consoles still I think.

weird how there are sow many less comments on a positive steam on 360 news rumor than some negative one, wonder why

GodKing13374624d ago

Why would some one disagree with "Really hope so"? I can only think of two reasons. 1 you are jealous or 2 you are just some fan boy raging over people on other consoles getting an additional feature... pretty much the same thing.

Brownghost4624d ago

sometimes i feel there are people who just disagree for no reason

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Megaton4625d ago

I assume the ball is entirely in Microsoft's court. They just refuse to open up their network to things like this. No doubt Valve would jump in with both feet if they were given the green light like they were by Sony.

qwertyz4625d ago

MS will agree and relax all their rules because if not 3rd party support for 360 will die and that means 360 ales will crash and the fact that MS has only 2 competent first party studios means they need 3rd party support more than any other console maker devs just have to keep pressuring MS and they'll literally spread their legs

HenryFord4624d ago

also "literally spread their legs"? Why would they do that?

RedDead4624d ago (Edited 4624d ago )

eye twas a bit far to be true

@ HF

_Aarix_4624d ago

Yea dont use "littertaly" cause a company cant have legs

k2d4624d ago

@qwertyz: School is cool, m'kay? Don't skip out, m'kay?

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Persistantthug4624d ago

Steam is a competitor to Microsoft.

If Microsoft was to concede to letting Steam on XBOX 360, then it would be Microsoft admitting defeat of GFWL, and by extention would also signal weakness with WINDOWS.

It would signal that Microsoft's hold on the OS market is significantly waning. There are already some signs of this happening already, but Microsoft isn't ready to admit this as this would be a terrible business strategy.

This is why you will not see Steam of any kind on XBOX 360.

However, what you will probably see is an integration or convergence of XBOX 360/LIVE and GFWL.

Genghis4624d ago

lol, no one associates gfwl w/ windows. you're living a dream pal. MS has the os market by the balls and has had it for years. There have been many windows extensions that have been failures (particularly in the gaming division), but those failures have NEVER affected the adoption of Windows (not even the court failure of Office!!). Windows could only benefit from adopting steam, or, if done well, making a Steam-Powered Games for Windows. That saves the brand name and introduces the kind of service that gamers want. And perhaps that would lead to Xbox integration (oh please oh please).

But if you think the failure of GFWL is going to hurt sales numbers of windows, you're bonkers.

Persistantthug4624d ago (Edited 4624d ago )

Microsoft is in trouble and they know it.
Not in any IMMEDIATE or short term trouble, but long term trouble largely associated with obsolescence.

Microsoft has Windows, yes....But GOOGLE, FACEBOOK and others control the internet. And with Android, GOOGLE threaten MS's OS. Whenever Google launches a PC directed-Android, AND FOR FREE, consumers in droves will go to get it.

Speaking of Android, RIGHT NOW, Android (along with Apple) is destroying Windows mobile. So Microsoft is losing the mobile and tablet market too.

Now look at Zune? That device got run out of town, and I expect their Zune marketplace to meet the same fate shortly.

The only other successful Non Windows related product Microsoft has is XBOX 360/XBOX LIVE...and even with that, XBOX 360 is a distant 2nd behind Nintendo, and soon to be 3rd.

Perhaps you never fully understood this, but GFWL was put in place by Microsoft as a means to further entrench Microsoft's WINDOWS foothold, to ensure that developers and consumers alike would need and depend on Microsoft indefinitely.....Thats REALLY what it was for.
And as of now, GFWL is largely looked at as a joke, while Steam has been bulldozing it into irrelevance. So make no mistake....STEAM is Microsoft's competitor.

So again, this is why Microsoft can never afford to just let STEAM stroll nonchalantly onto their XBOX 360 and XBOX LIVE platform.
This is why you will never See Steam there......not unless Microsoft concedes ANOTHER battle lost, and that would be bad for them.....bad for MS's business.

I hope I've made myself at least a little more clear to you now, Genghis.

KingSlayer4625d ago

It's for support of Valve games on Xbox 360. Nothing more.

Neko_Mega4625d ago

I have to go with what KingSlayer said, it might just be support for their games.

BattleAxe4625d ago (Edited 4625d ago )

Looks like this is the first time "the sixth axis" has ever looked at Steam's website. This has been on there for a long time now, and like you said King, its for their retail releases of games like Left 4 Dead and Portal 2 on the 360.

StayStatic4625d ago

What king slayer said , its been their since forever

Rivitur4625d ago

yeah got curious last time I saw it but didn't think much of it. However... *Tightens Tin-Foil hat*

DiabeticJedi4624d ago (Edited 4624d ago )

Exactly what it is... I don't understand why people would down vote you stating the truth, lol

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solar4625d ago

probably hooking up controller support.

Hayabusa 1174625d ago

Well, why hasn't anyone clicked the link to find out? I'd do so myself but I don't have Steam, and I'm not interested in downloading it just to find out. WHat's everybody else's excuse?

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein10d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii10d ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo10d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9010d ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel198910d ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus9d ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha10d ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno10d ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan10d ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno10d ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198110d ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn66910d ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19819d ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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