• speaker_hat@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    I just read in Wikipedia that Valve is privately helded.

    There must be something magical in the fact that they don’t need to feed their shareholders with mountains of cash every quarter, and actually focus on their customers, as happened in this post.

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      10 months ago

      Fun fact, they used to be public but Gabe took it back private after realizing how shitty it was having to answer to shareholders.

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      10 months ago

      And the fact is they still make a mountain of cash every quarter, just by focusing on their customers.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t know about that. They run one of the most predatory examples of gambling in gaming.

        The new EU ruling really brought to light how big of a problem the CS:GO gambling is.

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    10 months ago

    I bought one during the clearance sale for the price of shipping, assuming that it would be abandoned but maybe still useful as a low-power linux server. I guess I ought to set it up and take advantage of it.

    Thanks, Valve, for not letting these things become instant e-waste.

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    10 months ago

    Maybe the Steam Link and Controller weren’t as popular as Valve hoped they would be, but damn everyone who still has them seems to love them. Maybe I’m biased because I still have my controller and love it, and I gave away my Steam link because my Deck can do that too, but my friend who received the link is loving it.

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    10 months ago

    I swapped over to a Sunshine host (non-NVidia version of Moonlight) + Moonlight client combo for game streaming and it absolutely blew Steamlink out of the water for me. Went from lag, resolution switching and disconnects to buttery smooth on my Pi400 at 1080p.

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      10 months ago

      huh I was using the nvidia shield and switched to sunshine when they shut it down. had heaps of issues then went to steamlink which seemed better. last game I tried was slow as though, maybe I should give sunshine another run