Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open

• kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bless Valve for investing money purely for the goodness of making money

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  • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure, but they’re one of the only companies proving that consumerism doesn’t mean you have to be a complete asshole of a company. They make money, people get the product they want at a price point they are satisfied with.

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    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They also profit off child gambling

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      • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m a data analyst by trade so rhetoric like that can fuck right off. You want to talk about loot box mechanics? Sure. But bullshit scare mongering descriptions like that have no place in reasonable discourse.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure they’re doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers

  That isn’t even the most important reason, IMO. I think they’re doing it mostly to actively push Steam OS and normalize Linux for gaming. Not because they care about Free Software in principle, mind you, but as a hedge against the existential threat of Microsoft locking them out of Windows.

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  • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shit I’ll take that as a reason too and gladly back them for it.

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure they’re doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers

  Tbf, they can’t sell it at a loss because they aren’t guaranteed Steam customers.

  If it was sold at a loss, businesses could easily buy a bunch of them as workstations. Plus, it’s just a PC with no lockdowns. If you buy a Steam Machine, there’s no reason you couldn’t reflash it with Windows and exclusively play games via EGS and Ubisoft Connect.

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