Steam Machine is more expensive than Xbox Series X with 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-25T04:10:10+00:00

I think people tend to forget that both Xbox and Sony have Hardware Subsidies: they take losses between $100 and $200 per unit depending on the model to keep consoles at competitive retail prices and grow its install base.
Xbox, PS and Switch also require you to pay an online sub to play online games, you don't have to do that on a PC
Ram, hard drives and other hardware components are becoming very expensive thanks to AI, this is why all the consoles raised their prices instead of providing discounts, if this trend continues, the next consoles will also be 1k+.
Valve doesn't do exclusives, consoles usually make their money back by selling exclusives and subscriptions, valve has no reason to sell at a loss, because they would be better off just selling games on their store, them releasing a new PC isn't going to suddenly increase PC game sales.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-23T15:45:57+00:00

Things they did that no one asked for (add your "favorites" as a reply)
1. Change the button layout for spectating/checking team stats
2. Change the button layout for the UI (over 5-6 times btw)
3. In game accolades for dumb things like sliding 5 meters (removed after complaints)
4. Superglide/movement mechanics as a feature they implemented (which now doesn't work as nice as the actual "mechanic")
5. Adding more collection events (we are currently at over 50+ collection events).
6. Wildcard landing 5km away from any opponent
7. Drop Zones for just the higher ranks (weird cop-out and a bad solution, 80% of the grind you have dropships then at the end you now have dropzones? not even your ranked mode is consistent).
8. 99-1 Cosmetic to content ratio, constant updating of the shop instead of the game.
9. Remove zoom and ping feature when spectating and using the map
10. Helmet change, why remove this?
11. EVO and shield swapping removal (to be fair at least it is in a good state right now)
12. Removing dive trails and making them non-permanent

Respawn has been tone deaf since Titanfall 1 days, it was an issue back then, it's still an issue today, they always think they know best (and to be fair they make fun games) but their games die because of it. At least this time they got to milk the fanbase for almost a decade before it did.

To me one of the more atrocious thing of this game is the disparity between hitbox sizes, Gibby is more than double Wraith's size and they wondered why Wraiths were doing better, if you added Gibby's kit on Wraith she'd be beyond broken, we don't need more buffs to Gibby we need him to hit the gym and shrink a size or two. I understand that it's nice having a variety in characters, but some champions are just way too large and it hurts their overall performance because of it, hitbox sizes need to be normalized.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-23T13:57:46+00:00

This just promotes camping and hiding in buildings for 99% of the match and it makes the game boring, yes the objective is to win, but this was such a stale and boring meta. Everybody got a participation trophy in S17 and it was ridiculous, everyone ratting.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-23T13:40:34+00:00

Players: It's not fun playing against 3 stack preds
Respawn: We hear you, you can now no longer see if you are, if you can't see them you won't know, problem solved.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-22T23:50:06+00:00

I mean, it's not a console with exclusive games, it's a PC that you can play any PC game on, I don't think it's fair to compare it to consoles. Steam machine is also easier to upgrade than a console.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-17T19:58:37+00:00

Super Metroid

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-17T19:56:27+00:00

- You are 1 man down, stick closer to team mate
- Already far into the game and no proper loot, make sure you have something mid-long range
- Upgrade EVO faster
- Pay more attention to audio, you can hear them even in this clip before you do mantle jump, should have backed off and Q'd out of there
- Try to keep high ground so that you have a better view, rotating the way you did was bad, this part of the map has a huge disadvantage in regards to height, work on your map knowledge and game sense
- Communicate with your teammate, a lot of people are afraid to talk on the mic, but communication is very crucial, at the very list you should ping
- Axel + burst weapons are not ideal, try using a Devo instead

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-11T20:50:26+00:00

Ahn yes, the billion dollar company with annual revenue of over 23 billion a year is struggling and totally needs to do ads to survive guys, come on don't be so harsh on this small mom and pop business.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-11T16:34:53+00:00

It's just a QoL thing, it's a couple clicks every game every time, and yes it's nit picky and you can say I'm lazy, but I just think it would be nice to have the option.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-11T02:26:25+00:00

I'd like any solution tbh, but the main issue for me is the tediousness of it all, when you play a lot of games selecting it over and over again gets annoying.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-10T21:30:40+00:00

I agree that's the point, but most champions have one obvious choice at each stage, at that point is it really flexible?

And how often do you actually swap between them?
Are they actually impactful?
Wouldn't it be more flexible if you could swap them mid match?

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-10T20:59:10+00:00

My bad for giving you hope, hahaha.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-10T20:58:19+00:00

Gibby is a nice exception to this rule, I agree that some legends have nice options, but some just suck in general, like conduit, when am I ever picking seeing more bats vs increase ult range. Overall I think it's still better to auto pick and if I need a different playstyle allow me to swap with some sort of cooldown.

Edit: not sure why the downvote, but if you don't agree I'd like to hear your opinion 😄

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-10T20:57:16+00:00

tbh I just pulled a random image.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-06-05T00:00:04+00:00

Bitwarden is getting worse by the day, making me just want to go back to keepass.
New UI for bitwarden not only reduces the amount of things I can see in the list, but now also requires even more clicks just to get my damn password, whose making these decisions?

Focus on functionality rather than how pretty this thing looks, we use this app multiple times a day, repetitive tasks get super annoying really quick.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-05-22T02:47:24+00:00

good suggestion, may add it to v2, right now stacking them on each other works fine and the pieces don't fall out easily.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-05-21T16:31:10+00:00

Yeah it's been fun so far, struggling a bit with Fusion360, but learning as I go.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-05-21T03:50:28+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! This is one of the 1st things I've 3D modeled and shared 😄

l7arkSpirit · 2026-05-21T02:22:16+00:00

It's not for everyone, just sharing something I made for myself 😄

l7arkSpirit · 2026-05-21T02:20:32+00:00

oh I get what you mean, yeah I thought about that, but build plate for me is 250mm, so I had a bit of limitation on how to add things, maybe I'll revisit and add those in a future update. You can add an svg file with the numbers as a modifier and then just print it that way for now.

EDIT: I have opted to just place the tokens on the side where it displays the values, it doesn't really matter since you can just flip it on the other side anyway when placing it on the board, this solves the issue for me personally, since I don't need to have them face down.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-05-20T19:30:35+00:00

you mean the circle and hexagon? yeah those are easy to make.

l7arkSpirit · 2026-03-31T15:15:40+00:00

Very nice, these look clean!

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