Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well

I'm curious what your stance on RGB keyboards, mice, and other peripherals are. What is the utility there? Do you have different colored clothing? If so why? What is the utility there?

now imagine this: both are possible

There's articles on all kinds of things. That doesn't mean the marketing team behind the product was promoting it. If that were the case then there'd never be negative articles either.

There's articles about this because it's funny. It's also not something you'd see from, for example, Microsoft or Sony, because there's too much corporate control. It shows the devs at Valve get to mess around and have fun with what they're making. They're making something that they want, not just something the corporate overlords dictated.

Why does that matter?

Sure, I don't doubt that steam pays for reviews and news coverage. But I'm going off of statements put out by the company, because if I don't, I'd just be speculating.

it's pretty telling of the userbase that all news you read are about this though. Explains why you all got butthurt

Again with your pointless rage bait. That's not an actual argument, you are just telling a lie as though it's a fact. That's what ragebaiters do, that's what bots do. I don't actually consume game journalism at all, the only place I will see it is when I read a headline on Lemmy. I haven't even read the article this post links to.

I'm confused about why you don't like fun things that take nothing away from the promised experience

See above.

Who's crying lol

Weird your opinion is based on what others think and not your experience.

You don't seem at all unhinged, so I guess I'll trust your word art face value.

First, it's not that you dislike something that makes you a bot, it's that you are so unreasonably angry about an easter egg.

Second, it's not that you dislike something that makes you a rage baiter, it's that your arguments don't make sense. You are less entertained by a scream than using the controller as a controller? So is everyone. No one is saying this is the most fun or best feature of the controller, so you aren't actually saying anything that goes against the people that like the scream.

"They got mad because I think it's a ridiculous feature" Actually, I'm not mad about that. I also think it's a ridiculous feature. There's no argument there either.

If you don't like the scream, that's okay. I know it's not for everyone, and many people won't even hear it. But to say that steam is pushing this as an advertisement for the controller is misleading. To say that they should have just focused on making the controller a good controller is misleading. I have the controller. It's a great controller. It has more features than other controllers, and those features were executed well. I bought it before anyone posted anything about the scream.

You say you use a dual shock controller. That has a speaker on it. If unnecessary features make you this irrationally angry, I'm shocked that you would prefer a controller that they had to add in a whole extra physical component to the controller just to give it a pointless feature, over a controller with an easter egg using the hardware that already contributes to the actual experience of using the controller.

Except you don't care. About either of these things. At least not to the extent that you are putting on. You are just trying to make people upset as a ragebaiter, or trying to spread unnecessary discourse about a product as a bot.

and, as an intelligent being, I am less entertained by it than I am by using the controller as a controller while playing games.

Who exactly are you arguing against then? I haven't seen anyone even suggest that they disagree with what you just said

Thanks bro

I think it isn't significant. I assume you made a mistake in your comment.

But yeah, it probably took very little time. The software already exists. I'm not sure if they used an existing library or wrote their own, but it isn't complicated. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the original Steam Controller did this too, so it was written then, not now, if they wrote it themselves.