| sc94597 said: This thread represents all that is wrong with the "video game elitists" in my opinion. If somebody disagrees with their concept of value (which is subjective) they get fussy and resort to aggressive or passive aggressive activities. It is no wonder that many stereotype gamers as immature adults who need a lot of growing up to do. It is one thing to express your opinion, especially when it was asked, it is another to criticize another person's concept of value in an aggressive or pass aggressive manner in order to persuade them: that is the actions of a bully. Furthermore, it is kind of deceptive to say that PC Gaming is as simple as say, console gaming. I mainly game on PC (don't even own a current-gen console), but that is because I am not bothered with troubleshooting games and expending the cost of time in exchange for customizability and control over the environment I play in. When you play a game on a console, you are pretty much guaranteed it will always work, and if it doesn't, somebody will fix it for you. With PC games, one month you can play a game for dozens of hours, go away from it, and because of some ridiculous update by Microsoft to Windows your game crashes at startup a month later when you go back to it. Then you have to find a resolution that doesn't even seem like it would be relevant so that you can play a game you just wanted to play with no hassle. I've just experienced this today, not with a game, but with fraps. It was an easy 5 minute fix after I had searched, but it is still annoying to have to fix it in the first place, and sometimes the fixes aren't so simple. When you are trying to play a game to relax and enjoy yourself, it can definitely dampen the mood to have to go through the work of troubleshooting first. Steam has made this much less of a problem, but it still exists. PC gaming is definitely not for the casual gamer for this and many other reasons. Anyway, to address the OP, I think it is a great idea that you're waiting to see if steam os meets its potential. Chances are it will not, so it would be very risky to buy a steam box right away. But if steam os is successful, why not? It seems to be what you want, and any loss in value due to cost of comparable specifications to premade hardware you will gain in convenience. |
THANK YOU! Another one who gets it! I have nothing against PC gaming. It just isn't for me in it's current state. If Steam OS fits the bill, and I'm not sure if it will, hence the entire point of this thread, then I'll get it. I've decided to wait a while after it launches to see if it's supported well enough. I really like the concept behind their new controller. I think it's a nice compromize, in theory, between the presision of mouse and keyboard and the comfort of a gamepad.
The Steam Machines, on paper, is exactly what I'm looking for. Hopefully the end product delivers.
I was planning on getting the Alienware entry model of the Streambox, if I were to get one at all, but many users here advised against it because they apparently tend to overcharge. They said that their entry model would be similar in specs to the PS4 and "competitively priced" to the PS4 and XBO, which I assumed means $500. If that ends up being the price, is that a ripoff for what I'm getting? What is your opinion of Alienware. I've been told that the ibuypower and CyberPowerPC would probably be a better value for what I'm getting. While I don't really care about power, obviously if there are two identical consoles that play the same games with the same controller for the same price, but one of the is more powerful, I'll go with the better box.
