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[–] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Playtron can keep their GameOS, anything associated with Cryptocurrency is a hard pass. I remember a lot of cryptobros were financing the fuck out of Playtron. Naturally, this is a product I consider dead to me. I will buy a Steam Deck from Valve, as they aren't actively trying to scam their potential user base with Crypto nonsense.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Valve, as they aren't actively trying to scam their potential user base

I love Valve, but let's face the reality here. They're operating an unregulated bank and casino.

[–] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago

They were sued in 2019 by a Native American tribe over that, I haven't heard much about the issue since. It's likely they are merely being neutral in the situation now, as no one is throwing up a fuss. Still, it's not cool behavior on the part of Valve.

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Yup.

Me before the comma: Good luck to them, more options can't be a bad thing.

Me after the comma: I intend to wipe the existence of your useless company from my memory entirely, so I'm just going to point and laugh at your failure in advance and immediately move on with my life.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Peddling shitcoins in 2025. Lmao.
Cmon now, announce your gAmInG chatbot to complete the stupidity bingo.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Oh, the dream of earning crypto while I chat with AI chatbots to maybe one day buy NFTs.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This will fail. You don't start with step 1 being enshitification. That's like step 100 after something is already really good. Like if valve sold popup ads inside steam or some shit.

Coming straight out of the gate with this bullshit is a dumb idea and it will fail. Not to mention, having to make your own OS is no small feat, even if you're forking a Linux OS.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I suspect they don’t even believe in this themselves, this is just a last ditch attempt at squeezing a little more cash out of dumb investors before declaring bankruptcy eventually. Seeing how one of their investors was Square Enix, that might even work.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anyone who is even remotely involved in developing commercial software knows this.

Step 1 is growing a customer base,
Step 2 is making that customer base loyal,
Step 3 is and in ads, free tiers with more ads, bonus currency and other BS

Everyone knows that if you're ever going to charge money for your product you charge money for your product day one. You don't have a free alpha release or something and then expect everyone to pay later on, that sort of misdirect gets up people's noses. Star citizen is an absolute master class in how to do this well, not morally of course, but definitely done well.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago
[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Through this lens it became clear: stablecoins will become a financial backbone for the $500B global gaming economy.

The people interested in alternatives to SteamOS for Linux gaming probably aren’t going to be the sort of people who are interested in cryptocurrency or more micro transactions. I don’t think they have much of a clue what their target audience likes.

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

I'll stick with my steam deck

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So... Microtransactions.

They want more microtransactions?

Even giving them the benefit of the doubt, is there any game dev or gamer currently dissatisfied with existing payment systems? Are people in certain countries struggling with the mechanics of paymernt? Like, there are tons of ways to shoehorn in random charges or in-game ownership systems, and I don't see what crypto brings other than moving the purse-holder.

Again, devil's avocate: one could argue current platform fees (30%) are very high, but this is more of a monopolization issue than a fundamental payment system one,

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And even then, the SteamOS has a desktop mode so you could play only games from Itch or other platforms