But… It’s consistent!

not much to abuse

Then I’m misunderstanding this part. The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

But in the current climate I image that if the Steam machine was heavily subsidized that there would be a subset of people abusing that by doing something like purchasing, harvesting, and immediately reselling its parts.

Huh – what do you think I said or why I said it?

Consoles make an attempt to be a locked ecosystem - which is why they can subsidize it - because they know if you buy it your buying their games for it.

Duh - people are shitty and would abuse it.

How much is the battle royal monthly battle pass?

What are they gonna do – buy Twitter again?

Bundle/sell firewood.

I have a backlog to get through in retirement… I don’t need more.

A major release? Must have a new graphics engine or something.

It’s a little funny/not-funny because they dragged their feet on releasing a single player campaign for so long.

Stormgate

That has to be the death knell for it…

Is no fruit sacred to tech nerds