Most accounts make a purchase, as its a requirement to unlock most of Steam’s features and most accounts are in good standing.

A purchase within the last year would be better, but I think they are not concerned with scalpers. This system makes people have less fear of missing out and gives Valve more numbers of how many they actually need to produce.

Maybe they are planning both, standalone and bundle. I was under the impression from the original announcement coverage that a controller would come with it, pretty sure that was said multiple places.

The Steam Machine will include a Steam Controller.

There’s lots they could do to make sure they are sold to as many legitimate customers as possible.

The question is, how do you manage it without pissing some people off? I dont think the scalpers are that big of a deal, there’s never thousands of them, I bet the percentage of sold controllers going to scalpers is pretty low.

They certainly did.

Maybe they would have lost money overall. The store being down for 45 minutes, is not good fo business.

I’m pretty sure multiple Valve employees held many iterations before finalizing this. No controller fits every hand though and that’s okay.

People think they have to buy it for some reason, they just can’t fathom not being the target audience.

Not being recognised as a generic controller on devices is not a blessing. It’s restrictive and is this controllers biggest downside.

This doesn’t really compare, it’s a premium controller with multiple different input methods and features to integrate with their other hardware. If you just need a basic controller, this obviously isn’t pitched at that.

Yea, money is never as simple as conversion rates. You cannot 1:1 compare them.

You could ask Steam support for a replacement puck. I think they will offer them separately if demand is high enough.

The biggest problem is apparently it doesnt support basic xinput and requires Steam to function. Hoping a firmware update fixes that.

People forgetting the “pro” controllers of consoles are $200??

$99 is incredibly reasonable for all the tech you are getting with this thing.

Disappoint? That’s a reasonable price lol

Sony have never been technically competent. It’s why their online service is breached/down seemingly every other year.

I don’t blame them, the tactics used are manipulative by design and should be regulated further.

Even ignoring the market research, its an easy observation. Most gamers buy a few or less games per year. Them games usually being the big AAA ones marketed to them.

Consoles are brought up a lot because that is what is most popular with the average gamer, I mentioned it’s not exclusive to console. PC has however always had more success with indies and has less of that type of customer, though that seems to be shifting a bit recently with the PC market overtaking consoles.

It’s not tribalism to merely point things out about different segments. Not everything someone says is an attack.

I also never said

“console gamers will buy anything they’re told to”

I dont know why we are fabricating quotes or falsely insinuating.

Have you been personally affected by this? I didnt mean to offend you.

Yes. You did. We weren’t discussing stores advertising, but the effects.

You missed the context.

There’s no issue with it, they are obviously going to take money to play a game, that’s on their own morals to decide.

But a lot of people just blindly buy whatever is shown to them, its why standards for games in the mainstream market has fallen off a cliff over the last 15 years. We have people buying $30 skins on the regular…

I have them disabled too, but even if you just open Steam, there will be an ad on the store page.

Youre right, its a game people are ‘told’ to buy, rather than a recommendation. The first thing they see when they start up their console will be an ad for it.

Consoles have always had that market of just buying a few big games a year, they never broke into the indie scene very well.

But PC isnt immune to it, Steam shows ads for launches on startup and both platforms suffer from social media influence. The biggest seller of games has to be Twitch. Get a bunch of streamers playing your shitty game and youll sell loads of copies.

Marketing for his new game, thats all.

Which AI fuckhead got into Valve HQ

He can ask ChatGPT to help put the fire out

Yup, standards are low, unfortunately.

Official support is a nice way of letting people easily keep the game alive. Not preventing it in any way is a baseline and should be demanded from all games tbh.

Let them sing into the void.

Fallout 4 is different, updating a game years and years later to add useless paid shit is obviously going to piss everyone off.

If it was an actual good update with some nice updates to the game, then the outcry would be moot.

They also didnt have a branch on Steam for the old version, Bethesda just didnt give a shit, they deserve any backlash.

Fuck em, just make it mandatory for the last 3 versions at least.

I wish Steam would have better versioning support, an option to easily use the previous builds of a game.

It seems a lot of people dont remember a lot of buggy games these days.

I think it also doesn’t help that these games released unfinished and unpolished.

A message for all developers: mod support.

Balance based on data. Not based on crying in a discord or reddit.

No thanks. Ill just buy the ones I want.

He has 41.4%

Nope.

Hi Jensen!

Yep, existing for old cards would be great, but it was never even supported properly on old cards, instead it became a crutch for game performance on all GPUs and Nvidia started locking newer versions behind their new hardware and paying developers to implement it and advertise it.