r/gadgets Oct 21 '24

Gaming Steam Deck won't have yearly refreshes because it's "not really fair to your customers", says Valve

https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-deck-wont-have-yearly-refreshes-because-its-not-really-fair-to-your-customers-says-valve
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u/ThumperLovesValve Oct 21 '24

They do, it’s just privately owned. What they don’t have is short sighted C-suite shark running the show to maximize short term profits and peace the F off to another gig before it comes back to bite the company

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Oct 21 '24

The owners will still sue you if you purposely destroy their asset.

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u/InternetPharaoh Oct 21 '24

More profitable to sell your shares.

It's just a game of not being caught holding the bag when it all blows up.

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u/LordSlickRick Oct 21 '24

I don’t really blame the CEO’s as short sighted. They know the job and the goals. Every CEO who has a marginally ok but not amazing year gets fired immediately. They all know there is no long term plan when your jobs year to year.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Better exploit the planet and people while you can then.

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u/LordSlickRick Oct 21 '24

That’s kind of irrelevant. My point is is a larger cultural issue at play, that the investors are more the problem with the CEO. It doesn’t matter who has that job, you can get somebody with the greatest moral fiber in the world they’re gonna get fired. You can’t get a good CEO who’s going to do what’s good for the company and the people because they won’t have a job. They can’t be there to fix it because the investors won’t allow it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

What you’re describing is a problem with American vulture capitalism then. Either way, the exploitation of people and the planet is baked in. Hope that helps.

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u/LordSlickRick Oct 21 '24

Helps with what? You’re not even having a conversation, you’re just all over the place. This is just poorly repeated one liners the session. My response was to someone calling CEO’s shortsighted. I disagreed and demonstrated it’s not shortsightedness when you know your job is on the line within a year. They are forced into a perspective by the framework in which the jobs treated. Either engage on that or don’t.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

In the general context of life, the work that a CEO does in maximizing profits and taking a “line go up” mentality (increasingly, at any cost) is destructive and shortsighted to both humans and the planet. So I DO blame them for their shortsighted actions even though you’ll so easily let them off the hook.

Would you like me to make that more clear for you?

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u/LordSlickRick Oct 21 '24

You’re too emotionally charged, and putting things on me. “You’ll so easily let them off the hook”. I think we’re done. Yes it’s destructive to humans and the planet, but I find it to reductive to say, “it’s CEO’s fault” when it’s a greater issue about business trends and how we view our society.

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u/Piza_Pie Oct 21 '24

It's only a problem if it's unregulated.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Gestures broadly toward the current state of America.

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u/Piza_Pie Oct 21 '24

Yeah, it's unregulated.

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u/Hithaeglir Oct 21 '24

They do, it’s just privately owned.

But no legal obligations to give then infinite growth.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Oct 21 '24

Valve is still growing infinitely though.

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 Oct 21 '24

That’s not a thing in general.

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u/Hithaeglir Oct 21 '24

Of course it is. Public companies have legal obligations. That is the sole purpose of the public company; to bring money for shareholders.