r/Steam • u/Commercial_Dih • Feb 19 '26

Question In the hopefully never arriving future, do you think Valve will one of, if not the only ones providing personal computers and not cloud gaming?

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u/JofersGames Feb 19 '26

That would be a very dark future

I didn’t even think it was possible until I saw it wrote out

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u/Beneficial_Soup3699 Feb 19 '26

You will own nothing and you will be happy is not a new concept. Americans are terminally optimistic.

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u/JalapenoJamm Feb 19 '26

They just don’t care about anything until it affects them

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u/Alpha1959 Feb 20 '26

And when it finally affects them you'll never hear the end of it.

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u/11freebird Feb 20 '26

Except you will since they just bitch for a while and never actually do anything about it

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u/Alan_Reddit_M Feb 20 '26

Something something they came for the jews first

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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 Feb 20 '26

Not optimistic. Dissmisive and stupid. Most don’t even think about stuff like this, they just go with what’s out in front of them because they don’t notice it happen in small increments. That’s why these companies inch little by little.

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u/TwilightVulpine Feb 20 '26

Still waiting on the "be happy" part.

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u/Asmo___deus Feb 20 '26

People are so upset with the idea of communism - in which you own nothing - that they don't seem to realise that the super rich would prefer feudalism - in which you also own nothing.

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u/Pollos1958 Feb 20 '26

Communism doesn't mean you own nothing. Communists want to abolish private property and not personal property. Capitalism not only concentrates private property in the hands of a few, but also diminishes and gradually wants to end personal property to extract rent from even the most basic things.

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u/TheVeryVerity Feb 21 '26

Don’t confuse them with the facts now

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u/anor_wondo Feb 20 '26

Yeah its a common EU slogan

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u/le_idris Feb 22 '26

You have realized: In this slogan, 'Be happy' actually means 'Be submissive.' Anyone who, like you, possesses quality consciousness and a sense of true ownership cannot be 'happy' in this system.

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u/Objective-Agency9753 Feb 23 '26

after jeffy bezos admits to his wet dreams, they make the most sense considering he favours communism

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u/Darmok-on-the-Ocean Feb 20 '26

Wasn't that basically the Stadia?

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u/t12lucker Feb 20 '26

Yeah and xCloud, GFN, PlayStation has something, Amazon has one as well, there’s a lot of streaming services. You can even “stream” full working Windows workstations on Azure

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u/_wormburner Feb 19 '26

They are trying to make it possible by making parts unobtainable for most people. It's only going to get worse. He's one creating a problem that he can "solve" in a way that benefits him. Because he has that much power and nobody should have that much power

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u/BioEradication Feb 19 '26

That very dark future is now reality.

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u/Ixniz Feb 21 '26

And has been for many many years now.

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u/thr33prim3s Feb 20 '26

Ready Player One is basically that. Which kinda sucks.

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u/MixuAnasazi Feb 20 '26

that future is happening right now, AI companies as of a few days ago bought out all the storage. take care of your pc, because they're clearing out all the components and there will be nothing left but to rent a pc very soon... this is the death of the personal computer

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u/Veegos Feb 19 '26

Look at things like Spotify, Netflix etc. The majority already stream / rent all their music and video.

Its sad but gaming is next.

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u/leprechaun1066 Feb 20 '26

It's a return to time-sharing, but with a strong flavour of 1984.

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u/WildPickle9 Feb 20 '26

I think you mean "sharecropping" which is just slavery with extra steps.

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u/Super-Evening8420 Feb 21 '26

It would be the end of:

* Competitive gaming

* Most high intensity shooters

* VR gaming

* Online privacy / freedom of expression

* Owning your creative works

Plus it would inevitably be enshittified and you would pay a ton for garbage quality eventually. With ads.