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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    True. But think of clueless parents getting it for their kids for Christmas…

    “Oh timmy uses that steam thing. Let’s get him this!”

    can’t play fortnite, meltdown ensues

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 hours ago

      I think that risk is still reduced because the parent wouldn’t have their own Steam account to reserve one. For at least months, anyone buying one of these is probably going to be someone very intentionally doing so.

    • thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      yeah like parents really know what is steam and how big it is when i told my mom i want to create a steam account and buy games from there she genuinely feared it might be a scam most parents dont know about steam at all the only thing they know are the big 3 Xbox PlayStation and Nintendo

      • kossa@feddit.org
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        3 hours ago

        That means we came some way already. Back in the 90ies everything you could play on was a “(Super) Nintendo”.

        “Go play your Nintendo” - handwaves in the general direction of the family PC 😅.

      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        Haha likely true. Still, some folks see it as useless if you can’t play the most popular games on it that all your friends play