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Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

MikeTrike said:
That's fine.
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rinaldo00 said:
All of those failed, I do not have high hopes for Steam Machine 2.
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At least Big Picture Mode came out of the first go-round.

Wondering if they're ever gonna release an Official General Release Steam OS Image (GR - for any/all HW - and official - not unofficial but good enough, before someone chimes in. Been through it all before with the 'loyal faithful followers' -_- )
 
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Lateralus said:
Worse than the two quarreling lovers in the MacBook Neo thread?
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I wouldn't know, because I blocked one of them long ago because his posts amount to nothing more than an Infinite Complaints About Stuff What I Don't Like Generator, and his sourcing is occasionally incompetent.
 
At the end of the day, if little Tim Sweeney wants to get all pissy over Gaben, his worth, and his mega yacht - While little Tim lays off staff due to the fact Fortnite ain't doing so well; may I remind little Tim that there's an entire untapped and growing market under Linux that would likely flock to Fortnite should Tim get over his oddly vocal hate for the platform. He could even contribute to the growth of Linux gaming under his own Epic Games Store.

Supporting Linux appears to have worked for Gaben, just saying...
 
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kram182 said:
And as I've pointed out - I really have a problem with the servers going down every Steam summer/winter sale - which doesn't need to be and is just them being cheap asses - no way around it.
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i don't think i've ever seen steam go down. unless it's on a tuesday when they do their weekly scheduled maintenece and it's usually not down long, and you're still able to access/play your games, just no store stuff. next time you "think" they're down, check what day it is, i bet it's a tuesday.
 
d3athf1sh said:
i don't think i've ever seen steam go down. unless it's on a tuesday when they do their weekly scheduled maintenece and it's usually not down long, and you're still able to access/play your games, just no store stuff. next time you "think" they're down, check what day it is, i bet it's a tuesday.
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I get his point (I don't know that it happens every sale, but I know many of us have experienced it). Could they solve it? Sure. Why though, just so you can keep things flowing smoothly for the two or three times per year when the store is an unresponsive mess for the first ten or thirty minutes after a sale starts? Big deal. They probably enjoy the buzz it generates from everyone trying to throw money at them so hard that their shit locks up, lol.

It's just not a hill I'd choose to die on, or rage that hard over. Maybe it's because I'm older but anymore, especially with how "crappy" the Steam sales have gotten according to the complainers in every Steam sale thread, who gives a damn if you can't buy something within the first 5 minutes of a sale? One of the major complaints now is that there's little excitement for sales because prices are static from the first day to the last day, and there are no more random flash deals with super deep discounts. With that being the case, you'll get the same deal on Day 2 or 7 or 10 of a Steam sale that you would've on Day 1. Only difference is if the store is locked up on Day 1, we might have to touch grass for a bit or play one of the other games in our massive backlogs while we wait for things to settle. The horror!
 
I don't work for free. I don't care how rich someone or a company is, I don't expect them to work for free or take a loss on a sale.
This is the new post AI idiocy price of ram and storage. A new PC, or computing product with 32GB Ram, 16-32GB video card and 1-2TB of storage is going to cost $400-600 more than it did a 12-18 months ago. We should probably get used to it.
I was expecting the Steam machine to start around $600 ish before the ram/storage apocalypse, I now expect at least $850, but probably more like $999.99.
 
kram182 said:
Those other companies aren't akin to Valve with only ~350 employees with multi-billions in net profits annually - they outcompete Google/Amazon/Microsoft in revenue per employee - they even beat Nvidia the most valuable company in the world per capita - before even getting to more akin 'other companies'

And only 1 single employee at Valve would have to take a haircut to afford it all (edit: while still getting paid multi-hundreds of millions annually - after taking said haircut to pay for it all) - can you guess the employee? Pic unrelated.

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What have you sacrificed for them, that you believe they should sacrifice for you? "They are rich, they can afford it" is a pretty terrible argument, and almost certainly a hypocritical one. A steamdeck is a luxury good, you buy it or you don't, and life goes on.
 
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