Valve, PC players "best" company, just increased prices of the so called successful steam deck by 200-300 bucks >1TB OLED $649 -> $949>512GB OLED $549 -> $789This is the largest price increase for any console in history. No other console company has fucked over customers this bad.
That's how much I spent to upgrade my 6 year old PC. $1500 - $600 selling the old parts.
Oh my fucking god, the steam machine sub is melting downPC "players" are fucking pathetic
Funny cause valve have done several Nothing/win they do 1 thing that is truely shitty>HAHAHAHAH NINTENDO WONlike nintendo don't have 20K other things to fix upLol said the anon, LMAO EVEN.
PCKEKS CAN'T STOP LOSING
>>739704579No it's not
>>739704783No one mentioned nintendo little bro
>>739704579Fuck you, got mine.
>>739704579why are gamers so selfish? if you want your steam machine, console, graphics card or ram then just pay the market price. the market decides what the price should be. that's capitalism. If you hate it go live in a communist country.
>>739704579Why can't console fagots just shut up and realize that those of us who use Steam aren't tied to them and that I don't need to go defending my choice?I only use Steam because it's convenient and cheap, and I think the vast majority don't give a shit about their console and will keep playing on PC.It's crazy how corpo can brainwash people and lead them to fight imaginary enemies
>>739704579if steam deck 1tb is going for almost 1k dollars how much will the steam machine cost?
>>739705549If you want to own nothing that's your prerogative. I'll stick with consoles and game ownership.
>>739705629Over 1200. PCkeks can't stop losing lmao
>>739705689>I'll stick with consoles and game ownership.Yeah, that's why people who bought Concord can still play it...oh wait, actually, Sony deleted it right from the consoles, so now even if you have the CD, it's just a paperweight.At least fat Gave can't delete stuff from my PC without my permission, not even some crappy game.
>>739705689>consoles>game ownershipYou literally cannot own a game. You can own the media the license comes on, but that license can just as easily be taken from you, unless you're talking about physical media from over a decade ago. The age of owning your games is over, and you'll be happy.
>>739704579Just play with your PC like normal people do. On outside you need to pay attention on the road.
>>739706154Concord is a service game. You can't own that. >>739706156Everything you said was a lie.
>>739704579>it's realthose prices are insane
>>739704732What a bunch of cultists
>>739704579I don't understand how this negatively affects me. Can anyone explain?
>>739705689>>739706154Besides, if I want to keep a game forever, I just buy it on GOG, since Steam isn't a fucking monopoly and no matter how much some people want to make others believe that. I’m free to go buy something on Steam, Epic, GOG, some third-party launcher, or even fucking Google Play if I install an emulator, unlike you bunch of sheep who depend on a single corpo for everything>>7397062300 arguments
>>739706718>Besides, if I want to keep a game forever,But I don't want that. I want to own a game. Not keep a worthless digital bootleg in some cloud storage for backup. >0 argumentsAnd yet nothing I said was wrong.
>>739704579I spent $300 on my LCD eck
>>739704579The cube will cost $1500 at this rate, this is retarded, the deck is what 5 years old?
>>739704906The only faggots who have it out for steam are trendies. You faggots cannot live with the fact that you got fucked in every single aspect, but your last hope was the handheld market and even then valve came in and made a superior product.You simply cannot handle it
>>739707087Jewtengoys think the switch is an actual console and not just a shitty handheld.
I have a deck OLED already, sucks to suck
>tfw i boughted my oled deck last year
You guys bitching about your expensive toys. just think about all the data centers that are being built with all the RAM right now. Way more important than your dumb children's entertainment.
>>739704579>what used to be $350 is now being sold for $1000 with ZERO(read: zero) real substantial upgrades in hardwareAre we in another great depression or something? What's going on?
>>739707252And just like the crypto-mining farms from years' past, those data centers will rot once it's no longer profitable in a couple years.
so did you guys just believe the RAM shortage was made up? Or if you understood it was a thing, did you seriously believe it would have no downstream consequences for consumer electronics like game consoles?people ITT talking like this came out of nowhere or is inexplicable and I'm just going "oh the price hikes are here, and they're not as bad as I expected"
How much do you think I can sell mine for now? I have the 512gb LCD.
>>739704579Genuinely if Valve, Nintendo, Sony, etc. don't want to be caught in the nexus of the next video game crash (it's happening, and it's happening soon), they need to get used to the idea of subsidizing the costs of their hardware and relying on software sales. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are, you CANNOT pitch prices like these to a generation poorer than almost every one that came before it and expect them to bite.
>>739707343>Are we in another great depression or something?We've technically been in a greater depression than the great depression for almost a decade now.
>>739707434The RAM shortages don't cause a $300 increase. This is Gabe being a Jew. The writing was on the wall when they released the controller for $100.
How much do you guys think I can sell my old Steam Deck LCD 512GB for now?
>>739707343>substantial upgradesThere are no upgrades at all, in fact, there's arguably downgrades
id sell my oled deck for a 5080
>>739704579>Pricing out the poor "people"Based.
>>739707481>>739707527Kys resellnigger
>>739707587i paid 899 for my 5080 half a year ago.
>>739704579Steamies lost and got raped
>>73970786299% of stemies don't even own a 'eck
Valve does small production cycles for hardware so they're extremely exposed to price fluctuations. They don't have contracts for tens of millions of consoles and big stockpiles. They are just the first that have to adapt to the new prices.This is a harbinger of what is to come for all gaming hardware. The PS6 price will filter all of South America.Shit's fucked.
>>739704579> Oh no, this absolute piece of shit that only loser autitsts would buy or use in public, just got more expensiveYou faggots need to touch grass
>>739707862Based
>>739707484>he thinks its just video game consoles and gamesI get that this is 4chan and you NEETs live under a rock but this would not be just a video game crash. Its a whole fucking economic crash! Trust me, if anything actually crashes, video games will be the last of your worries.
Valve is nigger shit. Anyone who uses valve shit is an actual african american as well.
buying a steamdeck in a post rog ally X world (now at less price most of the year) is beyond me, are people this fucking obsessed with a single company
>>739706906>Not keep a worthless digitalThe best way to preserve video games is digitally; save all the copies and upload them for download.
>>739708214>zero track pads It's like you've completely missed the point of why people want a Steam Deck to begin with. Its to play PC GAMES handheld, not exclusively console port shit. You can't do that without trackpads.
>>739707087Yep. Tendies genuinely think they're subtle about it too. Bizarre behaviour
>>739706156>You literally cannot own a gameOn Steam you can't. But on real consoles you can.
>>739704579>>739704732AHAHAHAHA pctwats reaping the karma they sow.Lmao.
>>739704579there is NOTHING wrong with sucking dick and eating shit on live tv
Anyone who wanted a deck bought one a long time ago. This is what happens when the company doesn't finance the hardware; you pay the difference with software and services. That's why games cost between $80 and $90.
>>739707087>>739707162Holy fucking cope and mind broken.
>>739708596>That's why games cost between $80 and $90Games do not cost between $80 and $90
>>739707407don't be anti semitic..
>>739704579yeah if you don't count having to buy their hardware in order to be allowed to play their games in the first place, consoles are really consumer friendly
PC weirdos are so cookedNo pussy havin dorks
>>739708312>track padsokay i'll bite your bait, can you list the amount of PC games that can run native res 60+ fps on SteamDeck that require trackpads to have the best possible input experience?
>>739707087cope. Switch won, deck flopped. palworld flopped
>>739704579I picked up a Legion Go (SteamOS) for $400 canuck bucks recently.Best purchase I've made and blows Steamkeck out of the water performance wise.
>>739708634Nintendo games cost that much, plus they almost never go on sale or have discounts.
Will these prices ever go back down or are we fucked? (Switch, PS5, etc)
Steam deck prices are inflated to make the machine look like a better dealI don’t think Valve intentionally raised Deck prices just to make the Machine look better, but I do think the new pricing accidentally (or strategically) helps reposition the Machine as the main Steam gaming device rather than the premium alternative.Part of me wonders if they also realised there was a risk of casual gamers or people new to PC gaming just buying the Deck instead of the Steam Machine because it was massively cheaper.If the Deck OLED is suddenly pushing toward £800–900, the idea of spending a bit more for a full living-room SteamOS machine starts feeling much more reasonable.At the old prices, the Deck and Steam Machine would’ve occupied completely different value brackets. A casual customer could justify a Deck as an impulse purchase, whereas the Machine would need to compete against PS5, Xbox and full gaming PCs.Valve is one step ahead. As always.
>>739704579Well, I know what I'll be buying!
>>739708813prices never go down... think of the shareholders, line must go up indefinitely.
>>739704579The Steam Deck is weaker than the Switch 2 yet costs almost twice as much. Make it make sense.
>>739708832Nothing?
>>739708776There is exactly ONE game that enters that range when you don't include DLC, and that's if you get it standalone rather than bundled with the system (which is $30 cheaper).
steamies were laughing at us when nintendo increased the price by a measly 50 bucks lol. now were laughing
>>739708736What bait you fucking retard? There's literally whole genres that can be played on the Steam Deck just because it has trackpads. You wouldn't be able to do that with a regular controller. I think you're not understanding this because you only play modern triple AAA slop.
>>739708526Real consoles like my XHDs? Cause all the games I've got downloaded there, with their emulators, are mine. And other than electricity (the tax everyone has to pay), I don't have to pay a rent-forever tax just to have access to those games via a subscription service that comes on top of an internet payment. Modern gaming is a scam.
is 1k a lot of money for people here?
>>739708831You're thinking too logically, Anon. The price of RAM went up to feed the data centers. Therefore every device that uses RAM is also more expensive. The Steam machine is going to be at least $1,000. Welcome to the rich man's hobby.
>>739704579better than being out of stock. also the deck is not a console
>>739708991answer the fucking question dude, you came outta nowhere heels up refuting my statement and now i'm telling you to give me receiptsWHAT GAMES THAT RUN WELL ON STEAMDECK ARE IN DIRE NEED OF TRACKPADS?
>>739708968I’ve just been crying at how shit all of the big 4 are.
>>739709119The entire RTS genre.
>>739708282Who gives a shit? I've never lost a game in my life.
>>739709056Yes
>>739709056its a lot of money for the performance it provides
>>739706318Pc gaming hardware is going to die in the next 5 years. The major hardware manufacturers like Nvidia and samsung dont want you to own hardware and they are pricing out 90% of the market. Even if you can afford it you aren't going to be given the option to buy games when the majority of consumers are streaming.
Playing an rts game on a deck because of trackpads makes as much sense as shoving needles in my dick. Yeah, I can do it, but why ? Just use a keyboard and mouse.
>>739709205Me neither, on my hard drives
>>739709056It's not life-changing, I spent around 8K on guns last year, but for a singular item it gives pause and requires a bit more research than an impulse buy.
>>739707484PC gaming was at its best when it was niche and serving a primarily older audience. I look forward to returning to those days.
>>739704579Valve is finally going full retard
>>739709056i've been unemployed for a year and the only reason i had a job for 2 years before that was because i was working for my parents (who had to close their business and retire because despite 30 years of doing good business, everything went to shit in a few years)so yeah a grand would be a heck of a boon right now
>>739704579Very authentic thread. Totally not samefagging bait
>>739709187is the RTS genre (is that still at thing nowadays?) a justifiable reason for a 800p handheld where no modern games reach 60fps at native res?i don't understand your fucking logic, what kind of niche market value is "i can play RTS games on my tiny handheld", even the genre is dead brother
>>739709265I played through WC3 a while back on my Deck thanks to trackpads. Was pretty comfy actually. You can do a lot with the Deck if you set it up well, and that's only possible thanks to trackpads. This conversation doesn't even happen without them.
>>739704579Its not their fault. Its the fault of the usual suspects, as usual.
Gone are the days of affordable gaming.Piracy is gonna take a big hit next in the coming years due to digital ids and VPN bans. They're gonna fine us for roms like they do for speeding tickets soon
>>739709425I've been out of work almost three months and very grateful I don't own a gun or rope. IDK how people survive NEETdom for years. I have an interview Friday and I just know they're going to offer insultingly low pay. So either work a job I'm overqualified for or rot in my bedroom a bit longer.
>>739704579Remember when they said that AI was going to make game prices cheaper?
>>739709607Holy based. I can’t wait to be apart of the permanent underclass
>>739704579I bought a shitty 64gb lcd deck on launch expecting to upgrade to a deck 2 within 3 years and now it looks like ill be stuck with it for 8 years before valve upgrades it. At least I put in a 512gb drive. These prices are fucking mental and basically confirm the machine and frame are DOA.
>>739709607>>739709706I am owed bread and circuses
>>739709607>VPN bansLiterally as effective as banning people from thinking of pink elephants. It worked out well with China, huh?
>>739709663Remember when they said ai and automation would make everything cheaper? I despise libertarians like you wouldn't believe.
>>739709919Anon, the VPN ban is gonna happened on a worldwide scale, the real reason why China cant get rid of VPNs is cause of other countries hosting VPNs. Soon CIA agents will shoot up you and your family and shit if you ever host a VPN software in bumbfuck kazakistan for their overlords and chalk it up to eliminating a terrorist organization.
>>739705689>I'll stick with consoles and game ownership.did you just get here in a time machine from 2005?
Nintendo and Sony have a bigger manufacture supply chain so they have a better chance of waiting for the prices to maybe go back down.
>>739710227When have prices ever gone back down?>Things are only expensive because we're in a pandemic! They'll go back down once things get back to normal!
>>739710093No, why?
>>739704579>spend 1k usd on a ps5 pro and the disk mount and play lesbian simulator>spend 1k usd on a steam deck and play videogameshmmmm...
>>739707242>tfw boughteding my oled deck 2 yrs ago and sold it for what it costs new now
>>739704732>someone said it was gonna be 1500 so it‘s not that badThese are not real people
>>739710405because 6th gen was the last time you could own a console game
>>739704893nips got fucked hard
>>739710508False. I own current gen games.
>>739710575if it can be taken away from you at any moment, you don't own it retard
>>739704579>This is the largest price increase for any console in historyIt is not a console, which you can tell by the fact that you are free to install whatever OS on it, instead of being restricted into whatever walled garden Valve approves.This also makes selling the hardware at a loss financial suicide for them.Hope this helps.
>>739704893what's up with the japs getting shafted when it comes to all prices increases for all products? Is it their currency becoming toilet paper causing it
>>739710880yes
>>739710636No that's not a possibility. You must be confusing console games with PC storefront games, which can be taken from you at any time.
>>739710880Their currency is worth half what it was a few years ago so 100% increases is to be expected. The UK on the other hand has had a slightly increasing currency since they already had a Brexit currency disaster so their price rises are always on the lower end.
>>739704579you think it's valve fault that greedy AI companies made RAM prices go high?
>>739704579Oh no. Now I won't be able to play my PC games anymore since they are tied to... Oh never mind.
>>739711054continue living in delusion
>>739711360No I'm absolutely certain nobody is coming into my home and taking my discs and carts. You are mistaken, or lying.
>>739709250>don't want me to own hardwareAre they just killing the game marker entirely then? Because game streaming is dogshit and I don't see it magically getting better within the next 5 years or so.
>>739706318You're in the process of being priced out of gaming until the point you'll finally notice it and complain about it; by then it'll be way too late for you. Enjoy the future you chose
raising prices isn't what you do when you want to sell more, which means they were selling well
>>739713891>Enjoy the future that was chosen for youfixedYour choices never mattered, it was always going to come to this, they have been planning this type of shit for decadesThere was only ONE choice for humanity to avoid this shit and go down a better path, and they will never have the balls for it
>>739709224How are you this fucking broke?
>>739714060>Your choices never mattered, it was always going to come to this, they have been planning this type of shit for decadesThis but it wasn't in the control of companies like you imply; consumers caused it
>>739714227Gaming might have been the only industry where voting with your wallet works and the cattle still couldn’t behave
>Nintendo gives a warning about a price increase months in advance>Valve just raises the price with absolutely no warning lolAnd Valve is supposedly the consumer-friendly company?
>>739704579for that price one should get a second hand switch and save the rest to upgrade your poc
I hate that they raised their prices, but it's easy to understand why.>Rising production costs>Regularly sells out>Different demographic to traditional consoles, with greater disposable income>Still competitively priced against other deck-like devicesI might sell mine for a profit now, I don't use it often.
>competitively pricedits inferior to every handheld out there, at the same price for 1TB models
>>739713891I doubt I'll be priced out. I look forward to the children and third worlders being priced out though.
>>739714549the "gamer" is the ultimate cuck, Phil fish was right in the end
>>739715191>I doubt I'll be priced out. I look forward to the childrenYou just confirmed you'll be
>>739714778They also haven't been available for months. There wasn't a "buy now to beat the increase" opportunity like Nintendo had.
>>739709056>1ktry 1200 and 1400 sister
>>739712295They don't give a fuck about gaming anymore. Their market is any and all computing of which gaming is a tiny sliver of the potential market. Gaming was always an offshoot of larger hardware markets and if they kill the PC if will reform as a shitty offshoot of compute subscriptions and streaming services.
>Valve increasedNah bro the entire economy has increased prices by like 6 fucking times normal prices. Everyone is getting fucked in every corner. I think Sony had to up their prices too. GPUs are out of reach. Etc.I'm waiting for the Chinese or someone else to step up. I don't care about first generation clone problems either, I'll take it.
>>739709459nta but they answered your question and you replied by confirming you only play modern slop. this is really not improving you case brother
>>739704579>steamit's quite literally Trump's fault for allowing AI companies to do whatever fuck they want.
>>739715491
>>739715431it's not their fault ram prices increased
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>>739709056we know what you look like btw, typical jewish daycare female man everyone else is independent and won't ever waste money on e-waste, regardless of income
>>739715671>esl jeet
Based valve are sitting on a warehouse full of steam machines waiting for the absolute peak of peak of this ram crisis.They’re gonna rinse every penny from their fans. I’m predicting $1500 retail price
>>739715671>Can kill all your leaders in a single night>cant win a war over a little toll booth
>>739715871Straits closed, irannieFAGGOTLMAOHey. Nice tankers you got there! Mine now. ARGGG MATEY!BIAAAAAAAATCH
PCkeks....our response?
>>739705689Even with physical as of now you own less. A game I bought on steam 20 years ago I can still install and get fixes working if it doesn't function anymore no problem. 20 years from now, you go to load any of your physical media on your PS5 and you're not going to be able to get any of the patches, redownload any of the expansion / dlc for it you bought, nothing. It'll all be gone. You'll have a barely working day 1 version.
>>739704579yeah the price hikes are kind of insane and make the gabecube's prospects price point wise very worrying. I'm so happy I built my new PC before all this shit started
What kind of jobs do people have to afford a $949 handheld? Like no parent is buying this for their kid. How do adults afford this with the price of gas/mortgage/etc. Like 150k a year?
>>739704579This shit only affects consolekeks though. They missed the boat, they're now locked into console faggotry until the bubble bursts
>>739716029absolutely russian post
>>739707628I replaced it with the 1TB OLED model when that released. Am I supposed to leave my LCD model collecting dust forever?
consolefag is crying about pc again
>>739705689>consoleYou don't own your games.
>>739716391nah, it's 100% a local american. Burgers be liike that.
Oh no, the price increased on the product I was never going to buy. Y'know, the PS5?
at least twitch is still free!
>>739717202Nah, I know what retarded burgers are like, that is definitely somebody trying to make them look even worse/piss people off at americans (which you really don't need to bullshit to do)
>>739707434It is made up. The thing is they are all on it, including gaben.
>>739717547Cool, so you shouldn't be surprised.
>>739704579those Valveshills got real quiet lol
>Does nothing>win
>>739709250>>739713891If doomposters had to lose a finger every time they are wrong they'd run out of fingers before the 11th prediction.
>>739707343Yeah, I wonder what's going on. Can't be that unprecedented spike in hardware demand that's caused by the AI boom. You fucking retard.
>>739708849>prices never go down.That's retarded. >think of the shareholdersMaybe start thinking at all. Think about the prices of computers over the last 40 years. >line must go up indefinitelyIf your mothers sole wish for you was to explain the shit you learned by heart you would disappoint her.
>>739719081Same applies to negacionists.
>>739705689>people too stupid you can do both while the industry fuck itselfyou a real one.
>>739704579>haha look PC players, something that isn't a PC just got a price increase...ok?
>>739708849Valve is a private company.
>>739704579Retards don't realize that the first step of having a monopoly is luring customers with smiles and candiesOnce the competition is dead it's when the shitshow starts
>>739705689It seems you upset the brown's nest
>>739720082>Retards don't realize that the first step of having a monopoly is luring customers with smiles and candies>firstthe first step was making them accepting giving money for digital, some even paying full price. This is like the 3rd step of the plan
>>739720275You don't need to trick people into accepting digital. Digital has obvious advantages - obvious to people with working brains. And if you are really non-retarded you might even figure out that data on a CD isn't any different from data on an SSD.
>>739704579>Company that literally prints money and wants for nothing>Increases the price on a piece of rapidly aging hardwareWhy? It doesnt make any sense
>>739720529>Digital has obvious advantages - obvious to people with working brainsNo advantages, only convenience. People as a mass is retarded (no matter the period in history) hence why fell for it under the impression of convenience think it's bound to quality. Similar mistake as the "Economic success = good quality" logic you see on the ocassion.>And if you are really non-retarded you might even figure out that data on a CD isn't any different from data on an SSD.Completely different; I only own the SSD in your example.
Waiting for a real linux distro to hit the android handhelds
>>739704579I love how people over there are dooming and glooming about never being able to get into PC gaming and I'm like... Hello? Build your own PC?! How about that?! Why are they acting like the whole of pc gaming is just steam machine lol
>>739708743>palworld floppedhow?
>>739721297Ram prices are up 2-5x (even DDR4). Storage and video cards are up too.
>>739704579>price increase>PC players "best" companythank god. i wouldn't want it any other way
>>739707484Nintendo won't get caught in it, Sony's pivoting and won't get caught in it, Valve and Microsoft are FUCKED. Gaming will heal.
>>739704579I've owned a steam deck for years, I don't give a fuck if they increase the price. I got mine. Suffer slackers!
>>739716885Yes I do. The physical ones at least.
>>739714778Valve's boss also helped caused this by paying out of his fat ass for AI.
>>739719872>tranime has room temp IQ
>>739720529>Digital has obvious advantagesLet's hear it then
Aquafag had the last laugh
>>739720104Consoles are almost exclusively the domain of blacks, jeets, and children.
>>739723001Source?
>>739704893Ps5 is ass, but this covers multiple different price hikes done at different time, no? None of these were all at once like steam is doing
>>739705689You don't even own your console, let alone the "physical" DRM games you're renting.
>>739720613yeah it's so weird how they're not exempt from global chip, ram and ssd shortages. not sure how that's possible...
>>739722506Sony is in the same league as xbox, only Nintendo has a chance of dodging the bullet>>739723001jeets took over an entire OS under their grasp
>>739723169I own both, legally. Sorry about that. You tried.
>>739723169>can't name a single time where this has happened while treating it as a factual reality>only a strawman to spread fearbest selling system at release and almost 20 million units before a year btw
But I have one already
>>739724446>I own both, legally. Sorry about that. You tried.Legally your physical games are just licenses and legally your console can be bricked. Sorry about that.>can't name a single time where this has happened while treating it as a factual realitySure I can:https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/microsoft-remotely-bricks-leakers-xbox-one-console/It's also factual reality that Nintendo's user agreement includes the power to brick your console which means that they have the ability do so whenever they feel like it.>best selling system at release and almost 20 million units before a year btwThe Switch 1 only managed to sell 155 million units.
Its funny, just mere days after I started considering buying one because my new job was going to send me away from home much more often. Guess I'll just buy a laptop
>>739715594As much as I hate russia and china, this is true. Resources are wealth. Everything else is just scamming.
>>739724586>it works on my machine
>>739724763>Legally your physical games are just licenses They're also games, and I own those games.>and legally your console can be bricked. Yup, every platforms digital portions can be bricked. >Sorry about that.Don't be my friend. It keeps PC vegan hackers out of my games that I own. >Nintendo's user agreement includes the power to brick your console which means that they have the ability do so whenever they feel like it.Yup so does Valve with their accounts, and GoG, EGS, Sony, Microsoft, ect. I already knew that, did you have a point?
>>739723692Sony already made changes for next gen, they're making a handheld based on optimization, efficiency, and affordability, they're gutting a lot of their studios down with a heavy focus on pushing A, and AA games. They plan to bring back a lot of their old IPs and heavy push for and help indies and smaller studios. They're going to be fine.
>>739704579>why doesn't Valve control the US government and international trade>how could they do this for to me???If you didn't have one of these yet, were you ever going to buy one?
>>739707525>Valve releases a controller that is worth $200 for $100>This is bad somehowlollmao
>>739715680i am the person in this image, and i'm okay with this.two years ago i spent 3000 dollars on a lenovo legion pro 7i laptop on which i am typing this post. last year i spent 1500 dollars getting myself and my two sisters and their families NS2s, I spent 1140 dollars this month getting a samsung TV and a shelf to put it and my games and consoles on, this week i spent 200 dollars on lego dimensions figures from ebay that are coming through the mail, and i will happily pay whatever price valve sets for the steam machine because it would look wonderful on my new TV.yes, i live with my parents despite having a job that earns me 2600 dollars a month, with which i pay rent. and i am taking full advantage of my position.
Sucks honestly. Valve should have just cut down on supply. It's already hard as fuck to get a deck regardless. Having less of them being made and sold but keeping the price would be a better option for consumers.
>>739725146Steam can't bring my PC.>b-but they c-can deny you access to your games.No they can't. I've kept proof of purchase and that's enough to justify legal piracy. My country has laws that protect consumers in those situations. As long as you own a copy of something you can download that same thing. It's mostly used for movies or books but applies to games too.
>>739704579Valve is an even bigger piece of SHIT than Microsoft. Get fucked PC cucks. You are now paying the "SHILL TAX". Valve paid millions of dollars to Youtubers to shill their dead Stream Deck. Steam Deck bombed, so pay for that loss with higher prices.
>>739729314How the fuck is that going to help? A chip of ram is going to cost almost the same if you produce 1000 or 2000 decks.
>>739729431What country? That's super based
>>739729431>Steam can't bring my PC.Nintendo can't brick my PC either>No they can't. I've kept proof of purchase and that's enough to justify legal piracyRead the EULA. They can brick your account same as all other platforms.
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>>739729763>Nintendo can't brick my PC eitherBut they can brick your Nintendo hardware.>Read the EULA. They can brick your account same as all other platforms.I don't care about my account. It's useful, but the purchase of the game is, itself the point.
>>739729616>sold yet again>bombedrut rough, melty raggy
>>739729910>But they can brick your Nintendo hardware.I don't care
>>739704579Oh no!*continues to not buy a deck**continues to enjoy my games on steam*
