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What a shame.

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Sounds awesome, the dream. Can you send me some of your riches please so I can do this.,

Looks incredible, day 1 purchase. Look at that thing anyone on here who thinks that doesn't look GOOD needs their eyes examined and their IQ tested.

Yeah that's true, maybe I'm assuming the kind of people they hire though. If they are good hires for the kind of roles they have then accountability shouldn't be an issue. If you are highly motivated you can be accountable to yourself.

I can understand that being the case for some people. But that isn't the kind of studio Valve runs, people work in very small pods or just entirely independently there from my understanding. The issue of motivating yourself in their case is always true, so I have to assume that is factored into their normal productivity. Working from home doesn't change much where they work slower because they can't collaborate or communicate if that is minimal to start with. Its especially odd that their productivity drop is higher than studios that do rely on collaborative environments and teamwork more.

That's actually strange that he says it "much lower productivity", I think most studios are having lower productivity, "much" lower suggests a sizable amount, like 30-40% to me (which is a really high drop compared to what I think most people are experiencing). Given valve doesn't really make anything and people can work on whatever they want, that they only hire pretty experience and independent people, I would expect valve to have little to no drop in productivity. The less you require people to collaborate the less your productivity should be dropping.

A bit of a shame they havent fixed the whole library thing. If a console wants to go digital only, which they evidently both do. They need to change how they display games that you have bought, not just showing installed games in a linear list with all bought games hidden away in a thing somewhere. Games library > social apps etc

Agreed, I have a category in steam called "Completed not finished" for games that im done with but i didnt 100% or finish a full campaign of. As soon as a game is bought it goes in my favorites so its at the top, when that list is too long I don't buy anything. When im done with the game it gets categorized and removed from favorites.

Yeah, don't have time. Only have time for factorio...

I basically just buy games during the sales, buy 6-8 games, that will last me 3-4 months. Then next sale. Easy. Occasionally buy something outside the sales.

I'm not saying they couldn't make it look nicer, I just find it odd that how it looks is so big a factor that it makes you not want to buy it at all. You buy a console to play games on it, if the games are amazing then that presumably should be the overriding factor.

Because its not designed to be looked at but to play games on.... If you want something nice buy a vase.... I'm not sure if you are trolling right now....

Wait your going to choose a piece of hardware for how it looks sitting in your living room (where you can literally just put it behind the TV) and not for the games on it?

Its for air flow and that fucking huge heat sink. I imagine they are trying to solve the cooling issues all consoles generally have.