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[–] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Honestly that makes me like Steam even more. Any company that is willing to put up that much money to serve a niche market earns my respect. Sure they're doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers but it's still serving a subset of their customers like few companies do these days.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bless Valve for investing money purely for the goodness of making money

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Sure, but they're one of the only companies proving that consumerism doesn't mean you have to be a complete asshole of a company. They make money, people get the product they want at a price point they are satisfied with.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    They also profit off child gambling

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm a data analyst by trade so rhetoric like that can fuck right off. You want to talk about loot box mechanics? Sure. But bullshit scare mongering descriptions like that have no place in reasonable discourse.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That’s what loot boxes are, and I won’t sugarcoat it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Sure they're doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers

    That isn't even the most important reason, IMO. I think they're doing it mostly to actively push Steam OS and thus normalize Linux for gaming. Not because they care about Free Software in principle, mind you, but as a hedge against the existential threat of Microsoft locking them out of Windows.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Sure they're doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers

    Tbf, they can't sell it at a loss because they aren't guaranteed Steam customers.

    If it was sold at a loss, businesses could easily buy a bunch of them as workstations. Plus, it's just a PC with no lockdowns. If you buy a Steam Machine, there's no reason you couldn't reflash it with Windows and exclusively play games via EGS and Ubisoft Connect.

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