dBrand Announces 9 Steam Machine Skins That Are Now Available

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• trinsec@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And they’re legit this time? 😋

  Jokes aside, that orange one is pretty cool. You could claim to have bought the Steam Orange Box, literally!

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  • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Get your own Steam logo vinyl, and boom.

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• MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some of these are really weird. Like, I want to know which nerd is making their Machine look like a square basketball xD.

  The orange box one is pretty nice though.

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• Templa@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck dbrand and their cringe lord marketing. I ain’t giving no money for a Canadian company charging American dollars from their Canadian customers.

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• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If valve themselves aren’t going to do it, they should at least give dbrand or someone a licence to sell a companion cube skin. It’s too obvious not to.

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  • DarkSirrush@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They probably would have if dbrand had asked in the initial design phase.

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  • charles@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m fairly certain that if dbrand had asked first, they would’ve been able to reach an agreement with Valve.

    That being said, the way they went about it basically made it guaranteed that Valve would refuse and never change their mind, since allowing it would signal that others can use Valve’s IP to develop a product without authorization and then use public interest to pressure Valve in allowing the use.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m convinced that Valve must have been waiting for contact from dbrand. Valve probably already decided what their terms would be, but needed dbrand to contact them and not the other way around. Since dbrand failed to do that, they had no choice but to send a C&D.

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• whatsisface@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you have a source that doesn’t inform you it wants to sell your personal info?

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are you talking about? Their privacy policy/etc seems pretty good by modern web standards, and they specifically say that the only case which might result in another company buying their user data is if it’s part of the entire company being purchased.

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    • whatsisface@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image This check implies that they’ll sell my personal info by default.

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• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hesitated on my Steam Machine purchase and missed my deadline, now i am back in the queue. 😭

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  • Hope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you email support they may be able to help you. I tried buying during the window, but my credit card company blocked it as suspected fraud, and then I forgot about it until after the deadline. I emailed support and they moved me back up to the front.

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    • bonn2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had a similar experience with my steam controller. Give support a shot, the worst they can say is no.

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    • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I ended up using most of the steam machine money to buy a new Roland Keyboard (musical kind), but this is a great surging suggestion.

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  • deepfriedchril@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At the price the steam machine is, why not just build a PC?

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Form factor and CEC are the big ones. There’s no PC you can build that will come anywhere close to the performance:size ratio of the steam machine. And getting CEC to work is possible, but not the easiest.

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t answer for everyone but I already have a PC. I got the steam machine mostly for the convenience of having a dedicated device for playing my games on the TV with a compact form factor.

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• Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay, some of these look legitimately cool.

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  • gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll contrast your opinion by saying they look all terrible. I mean the basketball is funny but who wants to see that every day on their computer.

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    • Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      I think those two look neat, ¯\(ツ)/¯

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• manuremy@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can the machine still breath with these on tho? I remember my friend bought very similar looking skins on their Xbox and the poor console overheated multiple times before they took of the skins.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It should be fine, the Steam Machine uses fans to cycle air through, so as long as the vents are uncovered it should cool fine. The body is plastic as well, so not very effective for shedding heat that way.

    Although tbf an xbox shouldn’t have overheated from a skin either, since they also use fans and have a plastic body. Any chance your friend blocked the vents or something when the put the skin on?

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    • manuremy@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, alright, thanks! And yes, very likely my friend blocked the vents or that the skin was just very badly designed.

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• yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah I’ll pass. I’ll wait until someone release coloured cases

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good news! dbrand just launched preorders for coloUred cases. Link in op

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    • yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, those are skins, stickers. I meant real plastic case

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