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9 points ·
Why do you even assume he doesn't know what it is?
His videos are edited to tell a story and to flow better than a podcast. Stepping away from the main event to point out the product's name and making a comment about it sounds like an unnecessary distraction.
33 points ·
But it is basically a game console. What clarifications do you need? It would be kinda awkward if he started explaining that a steam deck is technically a pc that runs linux and so on.
1 points ·
Steam still lets you download games you bought that are not even on sale anymore, they never delete them even a decade after delisting from the store.Hosting this content costs real money.
Taking purchased items away from customers is absolutely not comparable to throwing away cards they haven't sold.
What makes you think they'd invalidate codes that cost them basically nothing?
Having stores activate the card on purchase is extra infrastructure, even if it isn't much. I think most of the remaining stock will be sold soon, so there isn't much point in keeping it up forever. Someone will eventually find dusty cards hidden in a forgotten corner of a remote convenience store, but that might not be worth even a small cost.
5 points ·
The codes don't expire once activated, but they can drop activation of unsold cards.
-1 points ·
They're just slips of paper worth nothing until activated, so I don't expect them to keep thee service alive for too long.
1 points ·
I doubt they'd release it like that.
7 points ·
Starting to seem like valve is getting more flashy mod parts than framework
14 points ·
The cube thing is from portal, a game made by valve. Valve owns the rights to portal and can therefore use the ip however they please.
10 points ·
Yes, and there's nothing mixed about the messaging. If you know what you're doing, go ahead. If you don't, dont.
Usually compsnies would just say no to everyone and throw around words like "unauthorized".
46 points ·
It's a warning to those who would likely just break their expensive controllers. Some people know stuff about electronics and can make custom parts and other things. It could spawn a cottage industry.
1 points ·
I think someone will cook up a driver sooner or later then
6 points ·
Yeah but is anyone gonna pay that?
8 points ·
Sounds more like gone in a minute
6 points ·
In this economy it'll cost as much as the apple vr set
54 points ·
I'd rather not
4 points ·
Yes it can.
Valve is a PC gaming company, so of course they *also* cater to people who want to run their VR games on their monster gaming rigs.
6 points ·
Meta does all kinds of creepy shit, like using the cameras to compile a list of items in your home. I'd rather not do VR at all than use Meta, no matter how good it is.
25 points ·
Me too. From what I've heard meta hardware is great, but I wouldn't take one for free.
9 points ·
Batteries on a device that needs wall power?
Well I guess I've seen things this dumb already so maybe
6 points ·
Not a very surprising result. I'm guessing we're at the point where these bans are about to spread fast.