Anti-cheat middle-crap-ware do not work similar to anti-piracy measures. Only hurts honest and paying customers. Plenty online, multiplayer, live services game came out with client side "cheating" and "hacking" - editing config, .ini or some other random files. Companies and studios should start creating proper online multiplayer games from start and/or hire dev who knows how to deal or mitigate cheating. Not to mention other issues caused by intrusive middleware: crashes, stability, performance, random kick/bans.

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: LeopardI think answer to that is easy: You can just tell them " you have a drifting problem" while you actually don't have ( btw " you " here is an example, anyone can do it ) such problem, get the parts, sell them somewhere or just stock them in case if they go drifty.

As a verification process for such thing would be messy - user has a problem but wants to do repairing themselves, should we send the parts now? - i totally understand that approach. Like you can't get a camera module from Samsung, Sony, Apple etc with saying " i have warranty, give me part, i will change it" .

well, there will always bee black sheep. The question is how much you trust the customer (and of course how expensive the parts are). For example Fractal recently just sent me a replacement fan after i asked if it is a known issue with a possible workaround that a fan started ticking sometimes, despite my case being out of warranty for a year already.
Additionally, shipping, diagnosing and repairing isn't free, so if the money saved on that outweighs the money lost on dicks abusing the system, it even makes sense from a pure economy-standpoint.

So while your point is perfectly valid, it is not set in stone that sending in the whole unit to be repaired by the RMA team is the only viable course of action.

You comparing PC case fan replacement with modular pcb replacement in small and cramped device. Those fans (likely) are cheep than any one ribbon cable, connector or switch/stick. Who and how many times someone FOBAR'ed case by replacing fan in past few decades and how many broke something extra on steam deck past 6 mouths? Steam Deck not designed for casual or bit more advance servicing. Self-tapping screw, glue-in batter, replacements of internal storage few mills bigger f-up things. Telling a lot IMHO, give it who knows better or will give new replacement, no questions asked, if THEY screw something up.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP(including a common database of known offenders)

This never gone wrong, specially in (semi-)automated system. It will be abused to hilarious levels.

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So VRChat Inc. buyout incoming by Meta or something else or it become, little by little, Epic Online Services/Epic Game Store (kinda) exclusive.
Account/credential stealing, client crashing server and clients, malicious scripts/mods... what's going with net code/online part of this VR app?

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWhat about the price difference between a PCIe Gen 3 x4 vs PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD of the same brand?

Same stick from same manufacture from different supplier/locations have different prices (~10% or more).

Listings of PCIe 3.0 X4 all over the place: speed from 3000 to ~1000 (same NVMe or M.2), price too. Feels like everyone hiding what type of memory cells are (SLC, MLC TLC). Most PCIe 3.0 X2 at similar speeds (~900 MB/s) and price, memory cell type(?). Some x4 cheaper than x2 other more pricey (same capacity).

Make you own conclusions. Myself, x2 or x4, kinda do not care what much. External CPU cache was lottery back in the day, HDD with same serial number/date had different chips, RAM never been 100% identical and so much more. It's not like buying 8 core high performance CPU, but getting 4 core mobile one...

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Quoting: setzer22Still, I think a deck with 1TB storage would be an absolute beast. With many AAA stuff being over 50GB nowadays, 250 feels a bit too limited, having to uninstall games to fit others all the time.

Why get bigger storage? Why buy more memory or get faster CPU/GPU every year if a lot of problems (bloat, optimization, bugs, memory leaks, just total random crap) are software ones? Just give option NOT to download and/or install 4K, 2K and other ultra high fidelity quality definition somethings... Anyways, it is AAA (others too), asking way to much in the end... still hard coding key-binds, need to edit *.ini to disable headache inducing and/or get access to useful options, unlocking FPS breaks game mechanics and physics, software released somewhere between ALPHA and RC stages as 1.0...

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Quoting: PikoloI wonder if that's a Wine regression, or something Proton changed

Or Unity engine (or some 3rd party middleware) going where it should not be and crashing because wine/proton do not take this in a count. Could be totally not malicious bug or just innocent sniffing around...

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Why some people so obsessed with multiplayer always online (specially FPS/TPS) games/slot machines? Deck fully capable of running them, but you'll never be "competitive" on controller and less so on small screen and wireless... Or just loudest bunch...

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Just another general observation. Why people demanding: Valve must take care support of 3rd party services like: EA Origin, Ubisoft (Uplay) Connect, EGS etc. It's Valve Steam Deck not Origin/Uplay/EGS/etc Deck.

Even Windows (Other) OS support not on Valve. Someone will jump on and say "but it is PC"... Most Microsoft Surface "tablets" just another pc/laptop hardware with MS Windows log on them, same goes with previous Apple laptops/workstations. Other OS support, for some reason, taken care by Linux/BSD folks not Microsoft or Apple. "Most sales on Windows" some one will say. Microsoft (Windows OS) making PC/laptops more and more like XBox One always-online DRM boxes and it will (may) bite 3rd party software dev (Steam for e.g.) and other user in the ass.

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If Microsoft Windows Deck will took off, I imagining Valve, Steam, Steam Deck support will get plenty of support tickets after some random Windows update, even Valve clearly states Widows OS unsupported. Ofc most will no disclose running Windows OS until asked.

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