But it sold out so…
Lootbox billionaire has an issue with exploiting consumers? Sounds more like jealousy to me.
This coming from a guy who is turning Unreal Engine 6 into a Fortnite engine.
Alternative title: guy causing hardware prices to go up insults competitor for raising prices.
Where’s the “Epic deck” Tim? Oh that’s right, after 8 years you still can’t properly make a website for buying games.
Not to stand up for Valve directly here but just to make a point (because we all know companies are not our friends) - but hold on a moment, isn’t this the same CEO who forced over 1,000 people to look for work elsewhere after laying off a whole lot of people? Yes it is. Sweeney has also been quite vocal about support for generative AI, you know - that thing driving up prices of everything everywhere. So perhaps Sweeney is not exactly the best person to be throwing shade around like this.
Well said Liam.
Sweeney is just so insufferable.
price gouger says what
Didn’t they jack up Fortnite prices for whatever sort of DLC they do. All I remember news about their “metaverse” creators being enabled to sell for in game stuff and it being as predatory or worse than roblox
What could valve do? They can’t sell them at a loss compared to component prices.
If they tried to target lower budget/spec for some steam machines that might help though. But really have we ever expected people to do much gaming on a £500 system? Sure it’s always been possible but it’s also always been pretty limited.
They were definitely selling at a huge loss with the original prices and depending on how hard their suppliers got hit, they might still be selling at a loss now. The game sales will make up for it.
You don’t have to buy games from them though, if it’s at a loss people would start buying them for other uses too
people would start buying them for other uses too
They very much are…
Theres also a lot of hardware on them that is useless for server use, but still adds cost.
So its probably still cheaper just to buy a used server instead of an army of mid steam decks.
They very much do. There are countless tutorials on using it for other things than steam
Maybe I’m confused here. Is this not the same guy that sells the same Skyrim every year with a new name?
Nah that’s Todd Howard. Same vibe though
Damn. I get all these copy pasta video game ceos mixed up. My bad.
Also not to be confused with charasmatic cannible Sweeny Todd
Again same vibe
Anyone remember Jack Thompson? He couldn’t hold a candle to Tim Sweeney; fuck Tim.
