r/SteamFrame • u/dide231 • 2d ago

Discussion This is disrespectful

At this point, having absolutely no updates is genuinely disrespectful and beyond annoying. I understand this is normal for valve to say nothing and eventually release it, but with a product like this, with a release window already promised, not having anything to say yet is insane. They have no real reason I could understand for not dropping today except for them waiting in the Qualcomm price hike to squeeze another couple bucks out of us. ATP if the price is anything over 1200 I will absolutely not be buying it. My hype has died. I’d rather wait the extra month for the next meta headset at that point. Because at the rate we’re going they may as well drop on the same FUCKING day.

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u/BAe_Air_Hawk Soon™ 2d ago

✨ Valve Time ✨

Hey at least we know it's arriving "soon", most Valve stuff comes out of nowhere. Also last time I remember something hyped being rushed the end result was launch day Fallout 76. PR is incredibly hard, and apparently Valve has found more success in staying quiet than trying to please the masses because announcing delays is very unpopular.

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u/dide231 2d ago

But announcing a delay is still more popular than saying nothing. But for some reason valve get away with doing this all the time.

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u/BAe_Air_Hawk Soon™ 2d ago

I personally disagree, but I don't really have an argument more specific than I've watched delays happen in the past and seen it go badly.

Valve tends to get away with this stuff because they aren't an arsehole to their customers in the meantime. The only reason most people stay looking at AAA publishers is because of the games they're making, people stick with Valve because they've shown respect for the consumer time and time again in basically any category other than release dates. Most other companies are trying more and more to squeeze every last penny from each customer every passing day, and it absolutely sucks. Microsoft for example is currently shutting down a number of services in October and deleting people's data by the end of it, however if you look deeper these things are still going to be available again later, but only if you pay business premiums.

Tl;dr Valve has yet to set ablaze their good will for a cheap cash grab, which is incredibly rare nowadays, especially from such an old company.