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- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
Oh, from my perspective, Valve is the one business I don’t mind throwing money at today. Every other large corporatiin out there has gone to shit entirely. Even Ubuntu and RedHat have their little things I can’t stand.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
I believe they could in theory do something like that, with limited success. Nothing is keeping anyone from creating hundreds of new steam accounts just to purchase the hardware. If the scalpers never fire up the steam machines, and sell them, it would be horrible for Valve to start punishing people that Vought those devices if they log in and they can tell the serial number or something.
It would be very complicated for Valve to do something about this, with very little reward for them or the actual final owners.
At the end of the day, they are selling like crazy, way above what I thought they would due to pricing, and scalpers taking them off of their hands is still revenue for them.
I still believe the only thing that can stop scalpers is letting them purchase 1 or 2 whole batches of whatever, and never buy from them, not even if they match the price on Steam. Let them keep all that inventory to rot.
But that’s not happening, so.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
I agree that there is a chance that it may happen, but I also think that this time around they came better prepared with way better hardware and software, which could end up being what the world needs right now to put Xbox, Nintendo and Playstation to sleep permanently.
I seriously wanted one myself, but I refuse to pay the price it was launched at, even knowing that it’s not Valve’s fault. And while I can build something nominally more powerful for the same money, I don’t believe I can build something that checks as many boxes as this steam machine does in terms of power to noise to electricity usage ratio plus the convenience factor. By all means this is finally the first light gaming PC that can give consoles a run for their money. No platform lock-ins, with the convenience of any console.
So, do I think you’re wrong? Not entirely, only time will tell. But for now, I hope that everyone that got one enjoys it for themselves and for those of us that couldn’t or chose not to get one at launch.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
Like any of us here, I also hate scalpers to no end. But let’s be realistic here, there’s nothing Valve can do about scalpers (at least not legally). That was the reason for my question. Email Valve to let them know about scalpers, online or otherwise, then what?
Now, if everyone chose to never buy from scalpers, if everyone would prefer to miss out before paying horrible people ridiculous prices because of hype, scalpers would eventually disappear.
But just like avoiding mainstream social networks, the convenience of Google, Apple and Microsoft, enjoying same day delivery from Amazon or forking over an extra 40% to get food over Uber Eats instead of getting off of our asses to go get something to eat is unimaginable to most people out there, too many would rather spend a month’s worth of rent on things they want, but don’t really need due to FOMO.
You are absolutely correct in your statement.
If we want to block scalpers and predatory businesses (not talking about Valve here) we need to start somewhere. Some of us already do self-hosting, moved to Lemmy and Mastodon, and dropped Microslop for some type of Linux distros, but we’re a ridiculous minority.
In my case, some of the people in my life even started calling me to ask me for suggestions to start getting away from those companies, same people that told me I was paranoid and “voluntarily suffering for no reason” when i eliminated Facebook and WhatsApp. And, of course, even now that they see that I was right all along, when I say “close all the Meta bullshit” and such, the response is, invariably, but that’s how I communicate with everyone.
So, yeah, scalpers will keep scalping, predatory businesses will keep at it too, because they can, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it, other than sit back, relax, and watch all the users cry their eyes out when shit hits the fan. I’m pretty sure we’re not far from that moment.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
That’s evident, there’s still no reason for you to be raining over their parade. Only people with hate in them come out and do shit like that out of the blue, generating more hate, of course, which seems to be your intentiin now that I said that.wao, and I fell for it too. Good job.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
Someone here never got a single quality toy from their parents. That explains some things.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
“Objective”? Any objective person would have come through the thread, and then move on. There’s nothing objective about you except for the fact that you’re and objectively sad individual who is probably going through some bad life situations. By the way, I’m being as objective as you, in case you’re wondering.
What a fucking moron 🤣
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
Some people just don’t have enough of a life to be happy for others. How sad your life must be.
- Comment on My steam machine arrived! 2 weeks ago:
To what end?
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 5 weeks ago:
Sure, that would work too, I guess.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 5 weeks ago:
For that kind of money, I may end up building my own running on Bazzite. That’s not to say I don’t like it, it looks bad-ass, but 1K+ for that hardware is a bit much. I’m thinking I can build something a bit more powerful for 100 or 200 dollars less.
- Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated) 4 months ago:
Or better yet, show me a picture shooting that had out of a Canon against a huge roach in a data center.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 5 months ago:
I’m game for the barebones version. As a matter of fact, that’s what I’m hoping they do, otherwise, I don’t think I’ll get a Steam Machine.
- Comment on Steam Deck has hit a milestone with over 25,000 games rated Playable or Verified by Valve (7,518 Verified, 17,492 Playable), up from 20,000 in June 2025 5 months ago:
Microslop is so fucked,ans that makes me so happy.
- Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever 7 months ago:
I upgraded mine to 2TB and still have to uninstall games to add others every 2 months or so 😁
- Comment on It's a feature. 7 months ago:
Finally, someone had to say it. THANK YOU!!!
- Comment on Steam Deck Client Update: Display-Off Downloads 8 months ago:
About time.
