Topic: Steam to offer non-game software starting Sept 5th

[idolminds]

News

Launch Set of "Software" Titles Coming Sept 5

Aug 8, 2012 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first set of Software titles are heading to Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform most commonly known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.

The Software titles coming to Steam range from creativity to productivity. Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with you.

More Software titles will be added in an ongoing fashion following the September 5th launch, and developers will be welcome to submit Software titles via Steam Greenlight.

"The 40 million gamers frequenting Steam are interested in more than playing games," said Mark Richardson at Valve. "They have told us they would like to have more of their software on Steam, so this expansion is in response to those customer requests."

For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.

Joy.

Perhaps this is the real reason Gabe fears the Windows App Store?

[Xessive]

I'd be all for Steam being major software platform if I could filter my damn list with more than just "all, recently played, installed, favourites." I;d like to be able to filter by genre, publisher, developer, year, something more! I'd hate to have productivity software mixed in with my games.

[MysterD]

I'd be all for Steam being major software platform if I could filter my damn list with more than just "all, recently played, installed, favourites." I;d like to be able to filter by genre, publisher, developer, year, something more! I'd hate to have productivity software mixed in with my games.

THIS!
I just got TOO many Steam games, as is...

[sirean_syan]

I have no idea why anyone would want to get into the productivity and creativity game on the PC. Anyone who has money will just buy MS Office or Adobe to be in line with everyone else. Anyone without will just pirate it or go with the open source stuff. Anyone with very specific needs have them filled already. Honestly, cracking into the pay side of the nut is about as bad as trying to get into the non-Free-to-play MMO game.

Also, we're on computers with flash and full keyboards, mice, large scale programs, and are unhampered by the inherit limitations of a small touch screen. We don't need a bunch of shitty "app" style programs. Although, I suppose that won't stop stupid people.

[Quemaqua]

Nothing stops stupid people. I mean maybe nuclear war, but even that's a maybe.

[Cools!]

Mac App Store anyone?

[Xessive]

I'm hoping to see a collection of opensource apps on Steam. I think that would benefit its growth and help get some exposure for some great apps.

Hmm, something just sprung to mind. Will we be able to manage installations? As it is I don't control where my games get installed, it's always in the Steam folder, but that's ok because Steam and my games are pretty much what constitutes my D drive (the drive I've dedicated to games). If I install an app through Steam will it go in my Program Files or stack up in the ever-growing Steam folder trees? I hope we have control over those.

[K-man]

Waits for steam winter sale.  Gets Adobe Creative Suite for 10 bucks.

[scottws]

Like I would buy anything through Steam at this point...

[Xessive]

Software is live and up on Steam

Steam Software