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dBrand Announces 9 Steam Machine Skins That Are Now Available (steamdeckhq.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 36 points 3 months ago (1 child)

And they're legit this time? 😋

Jokes aside, that orange one is pretty cool. You could claim to have bought the Steam Orange Box, literally!

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    • [–] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Some of these designs are, um, unexpected? Like, I want to know which nerd is making their Machine look like a square basketball xD.

    The orange box one is pretty nice though.

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    Fuck dbrand and their cringe lord marketing. I ain't giving no money for a Canadian company charging American dollars from their Canadian customers.

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If valve themselves aren't going to do it, they should at least give dbrand or someone a licence to sell a companion cube skin. It's too obvious not to.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm fairly certain that if dbrand had asked first, they would've been able to reach an agreement with Valve.

    That being said, the way they went about it basically made it guaranteed that Valve would refuse and never change their mind, since allowing it would signal that others can use Valve's IP to develop a product without authorization and then use public interest to pressure Valve in allowing the use.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm convinced that Valve must have been waiting for contact from dbrand. Valve probably already decided what their terms would be, but needed dbrand to contact them and not the other way around. Since dbrand failed to do that, they had no choice but to send a C&D.

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    • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Do you have a source that doesn't inform you it wants to sell your personal info?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    What are you talking about? Their privacy policy/etc seems pretty good by modern web standards, and they specifically say that the only case which might result in another company buying their user data is if it's part of the entire company being purchased.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    This checkbox implies that they'll sell my personal info by default. If it's only needed in case they get sold, cool, but still weird that they plan for that.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    They're a pretty small team, I think a lot of that text was just boilerplate. Here's the specific privacy policy section:

    1. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

    We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

    Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    I hesitated on my Steam Machine purchase and missed my deadline, now i am back in the queue. 😭

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If you email support they may be able to help you. I tried buying during the window, but my credit card company blocked it as suspected fraud, and then I forgot about it until after the deadline. I emailed support and they moved me back up to the front.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    At the price the steam machine is, why not just build a PC?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Form factor and CEC are the big ones. There's no PC you can build that will come anywhere close to the performance:size ratio of the steam machine. And getting CEC to work is possible, but not the easiest.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Exactly this. We were trying to spec a small PC for my partner before the Machine got announced. A Fractal Designs Terra was the case we landed on

    For the price, the deck is smaller, quieter, and reasonably spec'd. Plus instead of doing drivers and stuff myself, it's done for me. And we have a warranty. Great deal for our teeeeeny desks

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What is CEC?

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Okay, some of these look genuinely cool.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Can the machine still breath with these on tho? I remember my friend bought very similar looking skins on their Xbox and the poor console overheated multiple times before they took of the skins.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    It should be fine, the Steam Machine uses fans to cycle air through, so as long as the vents are uncovered it should cool fine. The body is plastic as well, so not very effective for shedding heat that way.

    Although tbf an xbox shouldn't have overheated from a skin either, since they also use fans and have a plastic body. Any chance your friend blocked the vents or something when the put the skin on?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, alright, thanks! And yes, very likely my friend blocked the vents or that the skin was just very badly designed.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And if it was a 360, those had an inherent overheating issue regardless of what you did, but adding another layer that insulates more than conducts heat wouldn't help, even if the vents are free and clear.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Nah I'll pass. I'll wait until someone release coloured cases

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Good news! dbrand just launched preorders for coloUred cases. Link in op

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