You’re completely missing the point. People can buy steam machines and use them as a PC without ever opening steam, or worse, use them as servers or parts of a cluster. If Steam Machines were sold at a loss they would , by definition, be cheaper than equivalent hardware, so companies would buy 10k of them to put into a warehouse to run stuff because it would be cheaper than buying the same thing from other places. This is what happened to the PS3, non-blocked systems can’t be sold at a loss because you can’t guarantee that whoever is buying it will use them for your intended purpose.
I personally think, that if your are gaming on linux you should value valve alot for how much money they have put into the linux ecosystem and it’s not bad to buy at their store. On the other hand there is alot of gaming happing outside of steam (including things which won’t make it to steam).
I do absolutely celebrate the contributions they’ve made, Proton beats the shit out of every alternative and it’s not even close. Black hole vs mouse levels of curbstomp
I also think people with bad values should suffer for those values. I am an ideologue
You’re completely missing the point. People can buy steam machines and use them as a PC without ever opening steam, or worse, use them as servers or parts of a cluster. If Steam Machines were sold at a loss they would , by definition, be cheaper than equivalent hardware, so companies would buy 10k of them to put into a warehouse to run stuff because it would be cheaper than buying the same thing from other places. This is what happened to the PS3, non-blocked systems can’t be sold at a loss because you can’t guarantee that whoever is buying it will use them for your intended purpose.
If you’re playing video games on PC, you fucking have steam.
@IzzyJ @Nibodhika
I personally think, that if your are gaming on linux you should value valve alot for how much money they have put into the linux ecosystem and it’s not bad to buy at their store. On the other hand there is alot of gaming happing outside of steam (including things which won’t make it to steam).
I do absolutely celebrate the contributions they’ve made, Proton beats the shit out of every alternative and it’s not even close. Black hole vs mouse levels of curbstomp
I also think people with bad values should suffer for those values. I am an ideologue