• Diurnambule@jlai.lu
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    Employee need to be paid to build it, ship it. You are asking them to sell at loss. But okey.

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      You misunderstood. No profit does not equal loss.

      The employee builds a Steam Machine with either a €100 or €250 drive. All costs are the same except for that drive. However, the difference in price the end consumer pays is not a €150 difference but a €320 one.

      This implies Valve takes their costs and just adds a percentage margin over it for profit. And I’m saying they shouldn’t do that. Pay what must be paid and let us pay the same.

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        Margin helps account for support, returns, and short term cost increases. You think anything beyond zero is unfair?

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        Can’t be the exact cost of a drive, you have to market research to buy the best for the system. Then marketing etc. Cost are never just hardware for a corpo, but yeah in a dream world corpo should not be evil. If it is the same producer of disk I may be wrong, though one the part you pay for research of the best sdd.

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        I am, because I think every body have to get paid. And if you are considering corpo should give us money you don’t understand corpo well enough, even the nicest corpo is still a corpo. Can’t trust any company which isn’t a cooperative, I seen corpo change leader and destroy their strong points often enough . And another guy made a good argument that it would be considering building a monopoly. Game seller which build a machine cheaper than any conccurence which can easily run it’s store.

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          Well Sony sold the PS5 at a loss, so maybe we should stop their bullshit first. I just think Steam should play the game but draw the line at the cost instead of a loss.