Dbrand cancels Companion Cube skin for Steam Machine. They never asked for a license from Valve.
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I just don't understand how this could happen for a company as large and established as dbrand. If it was just a guy doing 3D prints on Etsy I could understand. But this is a 14 year old company that has sold millions of product and has already had cease and desist complaints levied against them (the Sony PS5 Darkplates). Makes 0 sense.
This sums it up well
The rare self-aware brand robot 😄
It’s not even the first time THIS YEAR. They announced a “1984” retro Apple logo line, started selling it, and less than two weeks later all mention of it was scrubbed
Oh i got one of those. It looks pretty sick. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fykyzzrr5huyg1.jpeg
Nice! Yeah I was gonna buy one, but waited a week too long 😂
It's probably on TEMU now for a dollar
The biggest issue I have with Chinese knockoffs is they just copy the real product photos and mail you the shittiest replica.
I really wish there was an easier way to track down the original product to both support the creator and get quality.
I backed the an originalcoffee knock box some 10 years ago and there's LOADS Of knockoffs now. Mine is a freaking tank and I can tell these knock offs won't definately won't last 10 years.
Still getting dbrand in news headlines. In my experience with shopping with dbrand, they try to be the fun, hip brand. Not clean, boriring coprate.
If they manage to sell the case, that's good for them. If they can't sell it, then oops. More free press for them.
And to be fair, if the steam machine was more affordable, I was also going to try and get this shell (or should I say, Chell) too. But with no shell, all my current desktops more expandable (can never drop back to a 2 monitor system), and SteamOS easier to install, I have no need for the cube now.
"I can't afford a Porsche, but now that they've discontinued the color I liked, I'm not buying one"
You can just 3d print a cube. There will be about a gazillion designs available when it's out
Buying a whole new computer just because you want one with a certain aesthetic is like the final boss of overconsumption
Jesus Christ, go back to your frugal monastery. Woe betide anyone wanting something because they like it. Do you also picket outside Lego stores bemoaning frivolity?
Marketing? dbrand is bizarre.
Skip paywall: https://archive.ph/IfVXO
Lol wut
But Gabe loves us! Surely he and his benevolent company wouldn't be petty fuck faces and go after sometime for a product they have no intent on selling!
We don't know what they tried even they tried to get the licence retroactively. Could even have just been too expensive
It's also very possible that Valve already has given a different company the licence to produce a similar product
And it's also possible Trump didn't fuck kids. I wouldn't believe it until I saw a lick of evidence.
The hoops y'all jump through to defend that company.
But yeah I'll be sure to be on the lookout for this totally coming out tomorrow skin that's not being advertised during peak frenzy 🤣👌👍
You're the one starting with a hate boner and speculation without evidence
Go touch some grass
Any day now we'll see a competing product 🤣
Tim, don't you have more important things to do than astroturfing on Lemmy? Like not enshittifying your company?
Gaben doesn't love you 🤣
He's on a yacht funding his kids racing career, he'll never love you 🤣
Keep talking Timmy. No matter what you say, people aren't going to flock to you shitty store
Oh I'm using steam. It's literally the only way I can get all my games.