SkaveRat

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Not much to abuse. The same way that the subsidizing of consoles doesn't open it up for abuse per se

Valve would just lose money on a lot of sales, as they can't get a guaranteed recoup of the subsidy in the same way that Sony or Nintendo do

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

just looked up my upgrade.

1TB bought in november 2024

Paid 74€ for it.

Similarly specced ssd costs 210€ today. Fucking hell

Edit: the exact same ssd costs 165-210€

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

as xkcd put it:

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

and when confronted with the fact that prices went up and the costs had been passed on to consumers, the clarification they provided was “nuh uh”.

the argument is, when a price goes up, there will be fewer sales and therefore less revenue/profit

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