Yeah well the memory is like %200-300 more costly now. And likely other components are affected like storage and even some other microchips (trickle on effect). So its likely costing them TWICE as much to build these now... kind of destroys their value.

This whole destruction of PC part pricing is likely not to rectify itself until sometime after 2027, maybe not until late 2028!
Fortunately, I don't need any new PC parts as I've stopped playing stupid unoptimized junk that can barely run on a 5090 at 1080p. And also taken up a lot more older and basic graphic titles, even visual novel games (some excellent stories out there) which don't require top end hardware.

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AMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

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I think when I used WiVRn with HLAlyx last time (3mths back or so) I had a issue where the controller would not respond to turning right/left correctly (would cut out) or something. Was real weird as ALVR didn't have said problem.

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People forget that Steam does have a OFFLINE mode that can be activated anytime and you CAN even force it to be permanent.

Gabe has said that if there was ever a situation where Valve went under (end of world as we know it, lol), then they can toggle a offline switch at their end to make it persist.

Of cause at that point will everyone have internet to receive it? fortunately there are apps to do this already that 'mostly' work.

The issue is that games with multiplayer stuff are often running on Valve servers so that 'app' 'code' would also need to be open-sourced in such a event to people can host and play their select games still at least in LAN.

LOTS OF THINGS to consider.

BUT GUESS WHAT! Only Valve has put in effort to actually consider these situations, every other retailer except maybe GOG has told customers to go eat a bag of dicks... and yet, all these activists ignore them and only go after Valve.
Bad actors perhaps...

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bloody expensive service I tell ya. At least IMO and in Australia ($20mth with lots of limits)

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EA just going to keep breaking this shit. Their like Bethesda, every update MUST break compatibility! Like its the whole goal of the updates to begin with!

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More collaboration in open-source is always welcome.

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Hell, it's about time... /saidwithcigarinmouth

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China's CCP with UK overtones. That's what this all is becoming.

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No info on the sort of Graphics chipset? Obviously its integrated into the CPU package.

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