The component price changed, what was Gabe supposed to do, start manufacturing its own RAM?

They are swimming in billions, they could easily lower the profits they make and give it away for cheaper but that’s not their goal.

…in the universe you live in, is there cheap ram?

Private yachts aren’t cheap either. To buy an entire fleet of these you need to boost your profits as high as you can.

Valve and its ceo decides the price of their products. Considering valve is a corporation making billions and the ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, arguing that they are directly to blame for the high prices doesn’t sound stupid at all to me. If they are literally swimming in billions their profit cut is high.

Why shouldn’t they?

Because they are a for profit company with a billionaire ceo. Making profits it’s their job.

BTW, try putting together a same or better spec build yourself and get back to us with the cost.

The price you pay for something in a store is not the same price valve pays for a stock of parts. They buy the same stuff for a lot cheaper and resell it at an higher price to make profits.

If you disagree on valve share in publishing a game on steam it would pretty much be the same story. Valve is a for profit corporation whos ceo own an entire fleet of mega yachts, they are just as shit as any other corporation.

“deliberately targeted palestinian children”

We are ruled by criminals, this is no order, the governments and the people in charge are shit

With the current hardware prices there isn’t much profit to gain here.

Valve is a for profit company, they sell their products at the highest price the can get away with.

but there’s also likely no way they could make it cheaper.

Valve ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, i’m sure there’s a lot of room to cut profits there and make their products cheaper

Would be nice if it pushed back 20 years before steam become so popular

The prices are also so high because Valve is a for profit company and the ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts

That’s the result of spending trillions in war every year, if you prepare for war that’s what you get.

Because he has a massive public presence. Why do people like mcdonald and not burgermeister? Because they have never hear of the latest. The proper way to give this guy the middle finger is to stop giving him any exposure if not for serious stuff that show he’s scum.

All they have to do is to start putting ads on space and none of us will be able to do anything about it because we are a bunch of peasants.

You are promoting their ecosystem and blocking visibility for better content

You are not liberating anything you are promoting their shit

Stop upvoting x and meta reposts you idiots

That walled garden has a huge welcome mat and door.

Imagine if you or your kids walk into a toys store and you are asked for your credentials just to get in and if you want to buy a game you have to provide your telephone number and tell them where you live. The huge welcome sign outside the store are ads auzy

my point it that they fucked you over, you paid for games you don’t own

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam

they collect everything about you

Why not mention WHY he’s successful

Because he’s the ceo of a for profit american tech corporation that managed to hook up people into a proprietary walled garden that over the years developed into a close-like monopoly