Valve: Difference between revisions
SinexTitan (talk | contribs) isn't a steam controller just called a valve? |
mNo edit summary |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
===Business model=== | ===Business model=== | ||
Valve's primary source of revenue is the sale of both its own and third party games on the Steam platform. | Valve's primary source of revenue is the sale of both its own and third party games on the Steam platform. | ||
Valve also manufactures and sells gaming hardware systems. These products include: the Steam Deck, Steam Machine and Steam Frame which all run | Valve also manufactures and sells gaming hardware systems. These products include: the Steam Deck, Steam Machine and Steam Frame which all run SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based operating system, out of the box.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steam Hardware |url=https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware |url-status=live |website=[[Steam]]}}</ref> | ||
==Positives== | ==Positives== | ||
===Publishing TF2 source code (2025.02.18)=== | |||
On 18 February 2025, Valve released an update to the {{Wplink|Source_(game_engine)|Source}} SDK, which added all the {{Wplink|Team Fortress 2}} client and server game code. With the source code content creators are allowed to build new games based off TF2.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 Feb 2025 |title=The TF2 SDK has arrived! |url=https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250218201538/https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809 |archive-date=18 Feb 2025 |access-date=10 Mar 2025 |website=Team Fortress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=21 Feb 2025 |title=Valve Releases Team Fortress 2 Source Code, Now open to Modders |url=https://bitskins.com/blog/valve-releases-team-fortress-2-source-code-now-open-to-modders/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250310111654/https://bitskins.com/blog/valve-releases-team-fortress-2-source-code-now-open-to-modders/ |archive-date=10 Mar 2025 |access-date=10 Mar 2025 |website=BitSkins}}</ref> | |||
===Contributions to open-source (''2018—'')=== | ===Contributions to open-source (''2018—'')=== | ||
Valve has made several noteworthy open-source contributions to advance software [[interoperability]], which have improved gaming on Linux and macOS, and running {{Wplink|x86}} software on {{Wplink|ARM}} processors.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" /> | Valve has made several noteworthy open-source contributions to advance software [[interoperability]], which have improved gaming on Linux and macOS, and running {{Wplink|x86}} software on {{Wplink|ARM}} processors.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" /> | ||