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Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by drewmate »

tqi wrote: post #664

As a person who is mostly interested in playing a few older PC games out of a sense of nostalgia (such as the definitive editions of Age of Empires / Age of Kings), should I get this and if so, what size?

As one data point, Age of Empires 2 DE takes up 13.7 GB on my desktop, so you'd probably be fine with even the smallest one (though I'm sure it will still fill up quick!)

Form factor is another consideration. You'd probably still want a dock and mouse/keyboard. I'm not sure how well that game would play on a controller.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by malka »

> It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in > the last few hours. Please wait a while before trying again.

Thanks you Valve for this awesome shopping experience.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by rcstank »

malka wrote: post #962

> It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in > the last few hours. Please wait a while before trying again. Thanks you Valve for this awesome shopping experience.

I'm seeing the same :(

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by malka »

rcstank wrote: post #964
malka wrote: post #962

> It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in > the last few hours. Please wait a while before trying again. Thanks you Valve for this awesome shopping experience.

I'm seeing the same :(

I guess no one could have predicted people would need to try multiple time to boy a preorder at a fixed hour.

Nothing they could have done.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by metabagel »

I can't reserve. For whatever reason, Steam won't accept my payment. I switched to Paypal, and now it says I've been trying a lot of purchases, and I need to wait a while. :-(

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by nono-no-no »

metabagel wrote: post #967

I can't reserve. For whatever reason, Steam won't accept my payment. I switched to Paypal, and now it says I've been trying a lot of purchases, and I need to wait a while. :-(

I wonder how scalpers are messing this up now, since you need an account that’s older than June…

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by metabagel »

metabagel wrote: post #967

I can't reserve. For whatever reason, Steam won't accept my payment. I switched to Paypal, and now it says I've been trying a lot of purchases, and I need to wait a while. :-(

I either get a message that there was an error initializing or processing the transaction, or I get an error saying that I've been trying too many purchases in the last few hours. I give up. :-(

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by MayeulC »

Rapzid wrote: post #833
ketzo wrote: post #44

There’s obviously a lot of people who like playing games in a more mobile format, as evidenced by the huge popularity of the Switch Lite / mobile gaming. Giving the PC games market access to that form factor seems, on its face, like an extremely good move. But we’ve seen products like this before — the NVIDIA Shield, for one. Pretty cool piece of tech, but didn’t exactly start a revolution. I guess the question becom…

This is my feeling. Money is no problem for me, but I'm not immune to purchasing stuff I don't end up using. So I'm cautious about that and I'm sitting here wondering about the value. Say, the $650 model. On one hand it would be nice to have my Steam games on a portable without having to double-purchase(a problem ATM with Switch, on top of the higher typical costs of those games on eShop). But I have the Switch and S…

When comparing value with the switch, factor in:

1) Nintendo switch game prices

2) The size of your existing PC-compatible library (including emulators).

That drastically changes the value proposition to me.

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