Player asked Valve to improve Steam Frame - new feature appeared the next day
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
The developer pleasantly surprised the player.
Recently, players noticed another example of Valve's customer-centric approach. On the Steam forum, a player appealed to the company with a request — he wanted to be able to connect external CD-ROM drives to Steam Frame.
Aiodensghost explained that this would allow him not only to watch movies on the go but also to install an old game. For example, he still had a physical copy of Need for Speed: Carbon (2006), which has long been out of print:
Why can't I use an external disc drive? I wanted to watch a movie on the go on my Steam Frame and thought I could easily connect the external drive I used on my computer. It turned out that the Frame cannot power the drive, and even if it could, it doesn't have drivers to read discs. Valve, this not only deprived me of the ability to watch a movie — IT DEPRIVED ME OF THE ABILITY TO INSTALL A 2006 GAME THAT IS NO LONGER SOLD. You no longer sell NFS Carbon (go ***** EA), and although I have the disc, the Frame cannot read it. Can I, PLEASE, get the ability to use an optical drive?
The next day, a Valve representative under the nickname gaberowe wrote: “We will look into this, thank you for letting us know.” Less than 10 minutes passed between the publication of this message on the forum and the appearance of a commit from developer Gabe Rowe on GitHub in the “deckard-linux-no-oopsies” kernel repository. He simply activated an already existing Linux kernel function, rather than creating a completely new one from scratch.
But this does not mean that full support for disc drives on Steam Frame will appear in the next update. For now, users can independently install a modified kernel to avoid waiting for the update release.
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