A higher upfront cost has always been the price you pay for an open system and paying less for games and online play. But just knowing how the cost has been artificially inflated makes it a no-go for me. Not Valve’s fault, just the shitty reality of the world we live in.
It would be more correct to claim the demand is artificial, in that the hardware is probably going to sit in a warehouse, depreciating for years before the data centers and power infrastructure are brought on line to use it.
But, I get where you’re going with it.
Speculative bubbles are gonna speculate.
Some may even suspect a deliberate motive to kill personal computing to force cloud adoption, but hey… What would they know.
It’s artificial because the components have been made scarce due to manufacturers choosing not to sell to consumers (or consumer products) any more, not because the components cost more to make or anything like that.
A higher upfront cost has always been the price you pay for an open system and paying less for games and online play. But just knowing how the cost has been artificially inflated makes it a no-go for me. Not Valve’s fault, just the shitty reality of the world we live in.
It would be more correct to claim the demand is artificial, in that the hardware is probably going to sit in a warehouse, depreciating for years before the data centers and power infrastructure are brought on line to use it.
But, I get where you’re going with it.
Speculative bubbles are gonna speculate.
Some may even suspect a deliberate motive to kill personal computing to force cloud adoption, but hey… What would they know.
I guess uh… how so is it artificial? Like, the inflation of the price is real. You do have to pay more now than a year or two ago.
It’s artificial because the components have been made scarce due to manufacturers choosing not to sell to consumers (or consumer products) any more, not because the components cost more to make or anything like that.
The cost of the component to be manufactured has almost never represented the price you pay for a good.
The point is that the inflation isn’t artificial:that parts real It’s the demand that’s artificial, at least allegedly.
Semantics. There is an artificial element in the process that results in them costing more than they did previously.
So because you’ve decided to use them wrong, words no longer have meaning. Got it.
It’s really not difficult to understand what I mean. You’re being deliberately obtuse.