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Because Valve is one of the few tech companies that still wants to have fun and be silly like tech used to be. Before we entered the hell scape tech feudalism era.
And like many classic bits of nerd silliness, it’s also low-key impressive at the technical level.
The controller doesn’t have a speaker in it. They managed to get this clear, recognizable sound from haptic feedback motors!
They did what now? 🤯
Haptics motors make sound, you can control the pitch by how fast you make the haptics vibrate. Map the vibrate speed to audio frequencies and you can play sounds
Like how they can make an F1 engine play happy birthday https://youtu.be/Tr4zb-HHZs4
Or floppy drives play music
https://youtu.be/yHJOz_y9rZEAll hail the FLOPPOTRON
They did the same on the first model! But only for a few things
Yeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.
There seems to be a significant quality gap between publicly traded and private gaming companies.
Yeah because public companies are just investment scams now. The product they make is not their primary revenue. Once CEOs figured out you can just say shit on social media and juice the stock. Its market manipulation all the way down. At least with private companies its still about making a product or service and serving your customers and no private equity doesn’t count that is a different scam. Where you offload debit.
They can also choose to intentionally make slightly less money if there’s something they want to do first, or spend resources/time on stuff that doesn’t bring in revenue. In a publicly traded company, the investors can sue for mishandling their investment.
Not just gaming companies. I watch every prodct from a listed compny with suspicion by now.
That and Formula 1 sponsors are the most sus companies in the world.
And NASCAR. Du Pont has been caught secretly poisoning the US’s water multiple times now
tech feudalism
I use Steam but Gabe was one of the original tech feudalists.
Valve ignores the First Sale Doctrine, a law for over a hundred years. So now instead of being able to resell your games for whatever amount you want, your games are forever under the control of Valve.
Yeah I agree but that maybe more to the publishers not allowing that that to me would be achieved through regulation just like with the refunds. First sale was not something publishers wanted just a feature of having physical media. Also there is a myth that all steam games are DRMed. There are may games that run without steam being open but that is up to the publisher. Stuff like family sharing they added is them bring value to customers while walking a fine line with the publishers.
maybe more to the publishers not allowing that
It’s not up to publishers. Publishers tried to put a disclaimer on books preventing cheap resale. The Supreme Court struck it down and it was written into law over 100 years ago.
The problem is first sale doctrine applies to the physical media which carries the license of its own content.
No, the problem is that people believe “[concept] on a computer” is somehow magically different from “[concept] IRL” when it’s not.
When you buy a game from Steam, you buy a game, not a license, and the First Sale Doctrine applies just as much as it does if you buy a board game from Walmart. Any claims to the contrary are simply lies, and any government support for such lies is simply tyranny.
That’s a matter of law, and you have to convince the government to update the law accordingly
It doesn’t need an update, it needs enforcement. The law is about copyright holders losing rights at time of sale, not the specific media that the copyrighted material exists on.
The EU enforced their first sale doctrine on Valve.
Valve is trapped in a time prism where tech is still fun.
It can now also play any midi file https://youtu.be/T0RHXColYXU
I tested this out last night. It took a few tries and my wife thought I was crazy till it screamed out. 11/10 would buy again.
what ?
When you drop the Steam controller it plays the Wilheim scream noise. They were trying it out repeatedly agitating their wife in trying something so senseless until it worked to her astonishment.
no, really ?
that’s real… amazing
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/the-steam-controller-wilhelm-scream-easter-egg-is-incredible/
I was responding earnestly because I thought it was polite. That’s my mistake.
I don’t understand
Oh sorry, it’s a common thing in my area that that’s a sarcastic response. I thought you baited me.
I read it wrong. Apologies.
Anyways, I was entirely serious … it’s a weird feature to put into a controller but I get the nerd factor appeal of it. I can’t confirm it first hand though, I’m waiting to get my hands on one.
Thanks for answering, I’m just seeing all this 🤣 and yes are accurate I did test it like that
For anyone who gets the ridiculous 5070 overlay ad instead of actual audio (Thanks CNET, for finding really annoying ways around ad blockers), here is just a video of the sound: https://youtu.be/tw5Luf_7F8c
Ah, one of the lucky ones who got their controller actually shipped and in their hands already. Meanwhile tons of us stuck on “Packaged Items” for 2 weeks already, what a chaotic launch…
Yeah sorry. I accidentally refreshed the page 5 minutes early and realized the buy button was working, my serial number ends in 00067 😬. Good luck getting one!
What’s funny is, in Europe at least, the orders were not processed by time - a ton of people were complaining that they ordered theirs a couple of minutes early like you, or on time and were among the most delayed.
In my case I managed to process payment a whole hour later (after finally giving up and spamming the Continue button), so I can’t really be mad I ultimately bought one. And they finally shipped it, so there is hope for this week 🙏
Scream Controller
Well, now I want a Scream Deck and Scream Machine!
And to wrap a scream frame around my head!
Okay, that one just sounds terrifying!
