Am now I actually wasn't when I wrote that. I have like a fucked up first thing in the morning agitation psychosis thing and writing down bs replies makes it fun because then I do medically smoke cannabis see what I wrote and then delete it after laughing and saying fucking shit..

It's kind of a wild ride.

And you know what it wouldn't be hard. Force users to be online and to log in to steam and if you don't log in to steam which would hold your premium user pass which would enable the randomized access key to the premium/registered version of Steam OS that you're able to have full control over vs the downloaded iso that has half the features and no way to unlock the premium features/using the OS, being able to access the VR Games, access anything up and coming and new releases without paying.

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Also going off of the market trends of Google and Apple always making a new model with planned obsolescence with the old one and locking features due to the inability to update.

So one of the biggest gaming companies on the market right now (Steam) is making model one. When will model two be released and will you have to pay annually for it? Will there be planned obsolescence?

We don't know? We're ½ and ½ putting faith into an open source software with gaming hardware in a pc sold by Steam.....

That's a fuckin' leap of faith.

I don't I'm just going off of the last decade and a half of market trends shifting away from traditional ownership of a product you puchase to forced renting with an indefinite subscription service.

I guess I should've said I wouldn't be surprised if they did a subscription service after it does well and then moves features and then people will have to pay for premium Steam OS or full registered version or full access with all options vs free to try open source OS that is restricted from users adding any new features via open source that would make the premium obsolete in order to maintain revenue.

I 100% wouldn't be surprised.