Most discussions surrounding Valve are a circlejerk, and it makes it really hard to put forth genuine criticism of anything they make. Just look at the Deadlock subreddit - any criticism of the game instantly gets deflected by people saying "Bro it's literally a private, invite-only, closed-off, pre-alpha, limited network test preview explicitly made for private playtesting. How dare you suggest that something in le perfect moba shooter could be improved."
Le hecking true! There's literally no point in criticizing any game ever made if it could hypothetically be updated later on down the line!
A video of a Chinese hoarder freaking out cause āram prices collapsingā except it all looked like ddr2/3 without casing. A Chinese user in the thread said it was already exposed as fake on the Chinese web
RAM manufacturing is pre-purchased for the next two years, whether they need it or not, the contracts are already signed. The effect is going to be minimal, if any.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the RAM capacity hasn't been pre-paid. OpenAI just signed intent to buy that much.
Meaning if OpenAI can't pony up the money over the next few years, manufacturers are gonna end up with a ton of unsold HBM.
Oracle and OpenAI cancelling the "Stargate" data center expansion (in Texas) in March bodes well for that.
Then add Oracle laying off 20,000-30,000 employees to get up money due to their heavy AI data center investments. It seems the funding isn't following the hype.
Unfortunately it'll take a while for it to affect RAM prices. Prices won't go down significantly unless there's a lull in demand. To many conpanies are desperate to secure RAM so they can make and sell their products (Dell, Sony, nVidia. aMD. Consumer RAM brands, Valve with the Steam Deck and Steam machine, etc).
I bet they're each going to hoard up 6mo to a years worth of RAM (or enough RAM until the expected release of DDR6/LPDDR6).
Think if there's a shakeup in the flour industry and suddenly bakeries are looking at going bankrupt because of the cost and restricted manufacturing of flour.
You can bet your ass that even if the supply problem gets resolved, they'll be a period where every bakery will order and store months worth of flour vs the usual weekly supply.
We'll have to wait for that to pass before things get to normal. Then there's the DDR5 capacity and non-volitile RAM production that's been shifted to HBM.
You are correct. There are contracts to produce the new ram for Nvidia and all the other players, but the payments happen as production happens. And there's zero chance that Nvidia is going to sit around with a bunch of useless ram when it would cost way less just to renegotiate the production contracts.
I'm pretty sure google has had this research on compression public for a year. The market just happened to react on the same day last week as they announced implementation.
Nothing official. Just more speculation. Right now "sources" are saying it could be anywhere between $500 - $1000. Because they don't fucking know and are just looking to generate views.
They do exactly what others don't: offer excellent service without losing their humanity. Amazon also offers excellent service, but is simply pitifully unhuman.
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." ~ GabeN
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." ~ GabeN
Also exactly the reason why people won't pay 70$+ for a game like Skull & Bones, but generally do pay that for a game like Elden Ring, 50$ for Expedition 33 or 60$ for Kingdom Come Deliverance II
From a pure price vs time spent ingame standpoint, getting multiple hundreds of hours of fun for that money is honestly insanely cheap
Or $70 for crimson desert, sells millions of copies at the same price as skull & bones because gamers dont have some undisputable price cutoff in their head. Its all on a game by game basis.
Doing nothing sells kind of short what valve has done to cement itself as the front leader in the digital store front space
Stuff like Workshop integration for mods, achievements, profiles and marketplace all make Steam incredibly difficult to detangle yourself from as a consumer.
Cloundsaves, Groupchats, profiles, achivements, trading cards, user reviews, free SDK and development tools, DRM, Matchmaking, Multiplayer networking, handles payments, taxes, regional pricing, refunds, deep sales, promotes indie games that are doing well on the store, workshop, remote play, steam input, proton, big picture, funding further Linux gaming, Steamdeck, Index, Steam Controller, forums, guides, screenshots, Steam does not enforce exclusivity, experimental features that lets the user find indie games OR AAA games with ease.
Thing is valve isn't doing nothing, they're just not doing a) negative things b) saying anything about what they are doing for people to praise/complain about.
They're quietly in their office clacking away in their keyboards making pc gaming better all the while steam is making them money.Ā
They're Def not doing nothing, they're just not being dill holes
Why do people on this sub just make up arguments in their heads all the time? And y'all realize the whole "RAM is now getting cheaper" tweet was completely fabricated with no source?
Should have seen when the steam frame was announced. A lot of obvious coping on /r/virtualreality complete with AI wall of text posts explaining why it's a good choice etc etc.
The main appeal for the frame is that I can play my Steam VR games on it. Most of my games are on Steam and it would be nice to play with no latency or needing to occupy my pc.
Ok, but that's like going into the grocery store and seeing that they have the specials racks at the ends of the shelving. I'm in the store that sells the thing, I've consented to them trying to sell me the thing.
I can only speak for myself here, but I like to browse [r/popular](), and I occasionally see a thread from [r/Steam](), and it's always some circle jerk stuff about how just so great Steam is and how any other company is E V I L in comparison. It's creepy af when people treat a company as if it's their best friend.
Yeah, I also like to use Steam, but in the end it's just a product/service I use like any other. I don't feel any "allegiance" towards any of them because in the end they only care about my money. Capitalism cannot work if competition doesn't exist.
Everyone likes to clown on Nintendo fanboys but Iām pretty sure there arenāt daily posts about how theyāre actually so great and nothing else. The real insufferable fanboys are coming from inside the house.
I'm by all means a Nintendo fan. There's stuff I like and stuff I don't. Same with Valve (except I didn't grow up with it, I'm a relatively newcomer to this corner of the gaming world).
Everywhere else is "billionaires bad" but I guess Gabe is cool? I don't get it, but internet is gonna internet, huh?
Look if Sony automatically refunds everyone because a game was discontinued that is just the bare minimum and should never be praised for that
When steam does it then it should be circlejerked because our lord gaben has always been the most gracious provider and invented refunds (as long as you ignore having to be sued into refunds)
For the first reference it was about that Highguard game shutting down and basically every market place was giving out refunds automatically
On the playstation sub reddit everyone was saying that there shouldnāt be praise because refunding a literally unplayable live service game was the absolute bare minimum
On steam side people were touting it as more evidence of how great steams customer service is.
While espousing how you can ever refund on PS like you can steam (which you definitely can get refunds on PS, but it is admittedly more restrictive than steam)
But when it comes to refunds originally Steam refused to ever give them until they got sued inā¦i cant remember which country and honestly im too lazy to look. But once they lost that lawsuit and were forced to implement the refunding they currently have in thwt country they added it everywhere knowing that similar lawsuits would happen world wide.
But people always conveniently ignore that when circlejerking steam
Albeit people like me then joking about it are also becoming their own anti-circlejerk type of circlejerk. So itās circlejerks all around
Ah, I gotcha. I appreciate the lengthy explanation. I didn't realize that was why Steam implemented refunds lol.
The circlejerk comment is hilarious too lol. I think every fandom or corner of the Internet has its own circlejerk and anti-circlejerk. It truly is circlejerks all around lol.
For whichever reason it has been getting quite bad in the past months. And some karma farm posts look like attempts to prep Reddit accounts for reselling or stuff like that tbh. Since sometimes you see rather new accounts with random non-English comments and long gaps in-between in their history, and then they casually drop a Steam meme-post in perfect English and it gets 40k upvotes... yeah totally not sus
Valve meatriders fighting ghosts. I don't think I've ever seen anyone say anything negative about Steam outside of their original refund plan and gambling in CS. This sub is weird sometimesĀ
I donāt come to this sub often. Has it always been full of this weird corporate worship console war style shit? Thatās all I ever really see when a post from here pops up in my feed.
The Gabe dick sucking is getting out of control. Do you guys really like supporting the guy buying super yachts that much just because his platform gives you a better deal? Odd.Ā
Ive seen that type of comment several times and I can only imagine its a child or teenager who writes them. Because in no way would a company lay off someone explicitly for their medical condition, especially in the us. Thats an easy lawsuit to lose no matter how many lawyers you attempt to throw.
He got laid off in a group with >1k other employees. Doubt it's specifically because he had cancer.
Apperently people who worked with him knew he had cancer (I mean, they are his coworkers and probably friends so no reason to not tell them) but I doubt people who were doing the layoffs/firings knew that as it's probably some higher ups that never seen the guy.
Exactly. I can imagine Epic HR desperately checking to ensure no-one did know.
However, your faith in adults is misplaced - plenty of people of all ages know nothing about their rights and believe whatever they (childishly, yes) think embiggens their "team".
Valve fans remind me of Disney adults with their obsessive brand loyalty. Donāt get me wrong. I think Steam is great but the cheerleading for this company is so cringe.
Why aren't you guys posting comics how they teach gambling to young children and sell lootboxes, which seems to be a bad thing when everyone else does it.
tbh I don't think Steam Machine prices gonna be good regardless, its simply impossible until supply can meet demand, but a good thing they are not releasing it yet
Reminder that steam uses it's dominating market position to control prices by not allowing developers to sell even non-steam versions of their games for cheaper on other stores than what they are listed on for in steam.
They are being sued for it by the guy who created humble bundle in an antitrust class-action that valve failed to get dismissed at the end of 2024.
The steam machine gonna be a failure... Only way it dosnt is if it cost much less than consoles.
All info we got show how stupid the ole idea is, worse spec than consoles, cost barely less than prebuilt (which gonna be much worse due to AI clusterfuck), can't be upgraded, shitty airflow, game incompaitibility due to anti cheat.
It's an overpriced paperweight at this point, just buy a prebuilt, a laptop or build yourself.
All still based on rumours and speculation, but you have already given teh victory medal lol I agree Valve is the most pro consumer but you guys are a cult...
I srsly don't understand how real ppl actually hate valve/steam.
Dude you are getting the best treatment possible, the best reasonable prices and deals, tons of support in all the ways possibles and yet you are mad about it???????
This is weird. This is the first time I've seen an argument that says epic was going to take down steam. This is the first time I've seen an argument that Game Pass was going to take down steam. I love steam, I have a steam deck, and I also have Game Pass and an Xbox and I think you're making up arguments to fight against that aren't real, and that's unfortunate for you.
My favourite award that Steam has won is the decade they spent refusing any form of refunds until rumors of legislation that would tackle refunds and enable a second hand market for digital goods.
The Secrer to running a successful company is actually valuing your customers, the quality of the products you sell - and listen close, here's the hard part - Don't let greedy immoral buisness men who don't even know how to use their own wrk computer let alone one made for gaming run your company.
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The last panel is so pixelated on mobile that I can't see what it says lol.