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Until Dawn will also require a PSN Account to play on Steam. I think we already got the message, every playstation game will now require a PSN account (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] VeryImportantUser 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

did you no favors in trying to prove your point

There is no point to prove. You just made shit up and try to defend it by "but it's a possibility". It's pretty hard to argue against a made up scenario of Google buying data from Valve to fund Steam Deck.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

there’s the monthly hardware and software survey

It's optional.

whatever users didn’t willingly provide was probably bought from Google.

Ah, yes, probably.

I mean I wish I could find a source

No surprise there.

We’re all voicing opinions. I chose mine and don’t begrudge yours.

More like false accusations.

Your words in bold to highlight how hard it is for you to believe that Valve bought data from Google to create the Steam Deck.

[–] shneancy 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's not about probability it's that you just made it up.

Valve has better, more probable sources of income, like for example, Steam?, they take a cut out of every sale of course they're swimming in enough money to fund whatever project they desire.

And I know that Google is willing to buy any data, but what for would it need PC specs? What marketable insight about a person does it provide? "ah this guy has a high end graphics card, he uh, well he could be a graphic artist but this is data from steam so he's uh probably a gamer ig"

I understand your instinct to doubt every company out there, it's a good instinct, companies are not your friends after all, but man, at least try to make your claims against those companies plausible not just possible.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

Yeah my claim is that Valve used the data from their monthly survey and anything that was not willingly provided from users was bought from Google to R&D the Steam Deck. If that isn’t a probable or plausible scenario to you then you simply don’t understand why marketing data is useful.

I never said anything about selling out to Google.