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Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

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[–] 139 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Only one company has apparently learned how to print money and not be ghouls.

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  • [–] [S] 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    To be fair, they say they made a lot of tradeoffs in the name of being price conscious, but they haven't put a price on it yet.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Valve and therefore Steam is still privately owned, never went public. No share holders demanding things surely is a major factor.

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  • [+] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, they get a sizable cut from the majority of games sold on PC. I think that's their business model.

    I hear you about loot boxes and skins and stuff. It's just, that has to be a small part of their total profit.

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Why does it have to be? It's basically free money for them, whereas they have to make deals and curate their store front a lot more. Games take time and energy (if you don't just want AI generated slop, at least), so to get that to market takes time. Whereas microtransaction garbage is basically hit it and quit it and generates insane amounts of money.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Um, no?

    I guess this must be surprising to hear, but it's just easier to sell content of actual value than bullshit. Yeah... some people will buy bullshit, and yeah, one can take advantage of those people, but having actual products is still a better business model.

    But hey, if you've got these things all figured out, totally start your own game studio/global digital distribution system. Go make bank on microtransaction garbage.

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, clearly you are far more knowledgeable about such things, despite having nothing more than I do to back it up. I apologize for contradicting your opinion on the internet, that was my bad.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Hey, if I've offended you, I do apologize for that, it truly wasn't my goal. But I do strongly disagree (which is allowed).

    And I think it's pretty obvious that microtransactions could never, ever, possibly be more lucrative for Valve than selling games. It's just a numbers thing. I mean, dlc can sometimes make more money than game sales for some titles, that's a fact. But Valve has what, a dozen games that they could potentially sell dlc for? That's a pretty hard limit. Whereas they also make money on every title sold in the store, and there are currently over 10,000 titles available from the steam store. That's just like, a lot more than a dozen...

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