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0 pointskd9134y ago0 comments

It's a chicken and egg problem. VR tech isn't taking off cause there isn't enough market share to justify having great games for it.

To get that level of market share a company basically needs to subsidize the initial hardware/consoles. I don't think Valve has ever learned that concept and as such they are still selling the hardware at full price. This in contrast to say FB/Microsoft/Sony who actively subsidize their offerings because they understand the benefit of getting people locked in their ecosystem.

I predict a repeat of Steam Machines. (as a Linux user)

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RugnirViking4y ago

I'm pretty sure idealogically valve are opposed to locking people into their ecosystem. They don't even make it so you can only play their own games with steam, and they allow you to add non-steam games to your library. They're a weird comapny in general, they have a pretty hardcore horizontal management system going on in their company which as I understand as an outsider is a big reason why they've struggled to bring stuff to market of late.

Their (leaked) employee handbook is literally subtitled "A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one’s there telling you what to do"

criley24y ago

>They don't even make it so you can only play their own games with steam

? You can't play DOTA2 or CS:GO or any of their real moneymakers anywhere but Steam.

RugnirViking4y ago

I mean that even if steam closed tomorrow, you would be able to play all your games. They're literally just installed in a folder on your computer and steam clicks the exe for you. They also released server code for most of their own games so you can run your own. Most companies would have gated access to their servers so you could only run the game when you could connect to their database

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0 pointskd9134y ago0 comments

It's a chicken and egg problem. VR tech isn't taking off cause there isn't enough market share to justify having great games for it.

I predict a repeat of Steam Machines. (as a Linux user)

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RugnirViking4y ago

Their (leaked) employee handbook is literally subtitled "A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one’s there telling you what to do"

criley24y ago

>They don't even make it so you can only play their own games with steam

? You can't play DOTA2 or CS:GO or any of their real moneymakers anywhere but Steam.

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