Valve already had requirements with the first batch. They just didn’t have stock

True, but how many went with Anubis instead of Cloudflare?

where it becomes more cost effective

Reliability and risk are also factors. What do you do when a vendor tries to lock you into a walled garden before cranking up prices? What about storage of sensitive information? Sometimes the additional cost of doing it in-house pays off in ways that are difficult to track

Is adding a F2P game or a demo a purchase in this context?

No

Plus oil prices going up due to blocking the Straight of Hormuz, which in turn increases transportation costs

Plus, if there’s a hundred reserved controllers all going to the same address that’s a pretty big red flag

Who knew cartels were bad for markets? I am sure economists and regulators were screaming at legislators for years

Unfortunately there’s plenty of economists that still believe in hardcore libertarianism, which is what led to our current situation

The wet dream for big tech has been to get people to pay subscription fees for compute, just like businesses do for cloud hosting.

Thankfully there’s a growing number of businesses that have been burned by this, and it seems like companies are starting to try bringing their critical systems back in-house again

Thb, that’s going to fluctuate for awhile until they’re all adults. Some people were tryibg to argue Millenials went all the way up to 2000 until a bit less than 10 years ago, where the cutoff settled on 1996.

Much of what goes into defining a generation is based on formative events. For millenials, it’s being a kid before widespread internet and growing up alongside it, plus remembering 9/11. I bet 2015 is going to become a cutoff year, as anyone older than that would be in school during Covid and be affected differently.

I have company managed apps on my device. Teams, Outlook and Authenticator.

That’s your first problem. If your company want to force you to use specific apps on a phone they should just buy you a phone for that

LLMs are dead-end tech. There is no progress to be made there, dumbass

Nobody cares

There’s one listed for $500 on Ebay

They did do it with the controller though

It’s supposed to get you to read the article, not outright lie. The reality is that a lot of people only read headlines, so this lying in headlines just spreads misinformation.

And as a rule I say “fuck that” to articles that do this. If you obviously lie and be manipulative in a headline, then I’m not reading your shit article

Give their character a disease where they take damage every 10 minutes the player is absent without notice

Require an account three months old, at least one verified purchase in the past year, ten hours played across any title(s).

Most of this was already implemented. Valve required accounts to be at least 1 year old with at least one purchase. They did the same for the Steam Deck

Aren’t most of those scalpers?

While there are some scalpers, there is 0 evidence to the claim that “most” sales are for scalpers. Quit spreading misinformation.

The headline is still manipulative af

It’s Christopher Nolan, so it’s a coin toss