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Now if only they can bring down the cost of the Steam Deck and Steam Machine
Valve's main advantage is they don't have to make up heinous policies in the quarterly game of "tug off the shareholders".
It's all been fucked by AI RAM and SSD (and still GPU) prices. If anyone tries for a next gen £1000 console, they'll be going the same way as Sega.
Post it. You know which meme.
I want an edit of the "he can't keep getting away with this" to "he can't keep winning" lol.
Steam sales.
Are poop now.
ANOTHER $200 BILLION DOLLARS TO STEAM &VAVLE!
Remember when PC gaming was dead according to every outlet for two solid years?
Being customer friendly. What a novel idea.
20 years ago, the exact opposite was said about Steam and they didn’t change much. People just got used to it.
No.
As a person who resisted hard 20 years ago, they earned it. I didn't get used to it, I found value. In cloud saves, in steam sales, in no pushy advertising, and so on.
As a Linux user over 20 years they also did what nobody else really tried. That matters a lot.
Sure they didn't change much if you ignored all the improvements they made to the platform.
If they didn't the other competitors wouldn't be irrelevant today.
They haven’t changed much? They have like literally a million more games available on their store now.
I feel like this is not rocket science here, this is like business 101.
Make the customer happy
Enjoy increased sales and revenue
N,o, it is economics and at some point over the last decade or so companies decided that the customer should be subjected to a constant shift of quality until it arrives at a level where it is the worst they are possibly willing to accept. Quality down profits up. Welcome to our new world.
This is the new "the customer is always right" attitude.
profits down but stocks rise with increased investment.
I never got a PlayStation but I was holding out for a PlayStation 6 once it finally got released. If there is no version for physical discs I will definitely not be getting one. Nothing worse then wanting to play a game you haven't played in a while and then having to redownload it because you had to delete it to free up space for other games.
So much nicer just to be able to throw a disc in and go.
Nothing worse then wanting to play a game you haven't played in a while and then having to redownload it...
Not even Dermatobia hominis? Or anthropogenic climate change? Or like, genocide?
That's funny because you describe the play station even when you have the physical disks.
Or run into weird licensing issues you have no control over and the $80 game you bought no longer exists.
Or you still have the game but they just removed the sound track and changed some of the character's faces.