Full Tilt Poker On Steam Games?
8 years ago
12 Oct
The last couple of days has seen a buzz of excitement among the poker-playing masses who spend their time on âSteamâ, the digital distribution PC Gaming community. FullTiltPoker.net, the play money version of the industry giants, are offering up their client to an estimated 125 million+ Steam users.
âVote FullTiltPoker.net onto Steam!â
Reads the poker siteâs appeal to the masses who converge on Steam for their gaming needs, continuing
âExperience the very best in online gaming for free.â
Itâs not difficult to see why Full Tilt want to promote their poker client on the popular platform â the number of potential âreal-moneyâ new members drawn into the world of online poker could be huge â and Steam currently has a very limited poker offering available.
âThis would be a big PLUS for Steam !!â was NeVeR_Eireâs view on the Steam discussion thread. âIf you have ever played on Full Tilt you would know that there software is much better than any other Play Money poker site like Zynga.â
Not a view shared by all commenters,
jmjovan59 opining âWhy would I be playing this with so many other and better games like Zynga Poker for an example?â
Internet discussions often serve no real purpose as we all know â descending into love it or hate it affairs â but on Steam things work a bit differently. They operate a âGreenlightâ system, whereby the community decides which software will be released on the platform.
Discussions - followed by voting yay or nay - are the norm, and Full Tilt will be looking to persuade the Steam following of the merits of adding their poker site to the myriad other games available for download.
'Prepare to join eighty thousand others who play each week at our free-to-play No Limit Holdâem poker tables, or even discover your next favorite pastime among our wide variety of game types'
â(Twitch) streamers like Jason âJCarverâ Somerville, Jaime Staples and yes, occasionally myself (with about 1% of the success as the aforementioned Twitch bosses) attract thousands of viewers completely new to poker and do a wonderful job of growing the gameâ, he begins, adding, âIâd argue that getting a poker client onto Steam will do the exact same thing.â
Describing himself as a poker player first and foremost, he also has a rich history in gaming from playing Sonic on Sega Mega Drive, Goldeneye on N64, and Counter-Strike for the computer - games have always been a huge part of his life.
Explaining âthe long and intertwined historyâ between the two disciplines, Silver talks about how Bertrand âElkYâ Grospelier (right), Randy ânanokoâ Lew and others crossed over from gaming to poker, concluding,
âOther poker sites will be watching this move closely and Iâd bet a significant amount of money that if Full Tilt successfully makes it through the Greenlight process others will followâŚdirectly leading to bigger prizes and a bigger metaphorical slice of the pie for everyone.â
Full Tilt arenât exactly shy about their desire to appear on Steamâs downloadable listings.
âAs one of the worldâs leading online poker rooms, weâre proud to offer a truly authentic gaming experience. Enjoy the ultimate in high-speed poker at a Rush Poker table or take on just two opponents in our Jackpot Sit & Go Tournaments.â
Whether this comes to fruition or not remains to be seen â and in the hands of the âSteam faithfulâ â and if you want to join in the voting process, signing up âis free and easyâ. Simply head over to the steam store and once you have created an account or if you already have one, go to Full Tilt Greenlight and cast your vote.
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