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>I hope so, I'm based in Germany and consumer protection laws were laxed up at the cost of the consumer, guarantee got reduced to practically 6 months. At least Valve stated on their warranty page that I'm entitled to German regulations.
What laws would that be? And why would they supercede EU law, which guarantees 2 years?

Valve's store page itself says it already guarantees at least 1 year:
>Valve garantiert, dass die Hardware bei normaler Verwendung durch den Verbraucher für ein (1) Jahr ab Versanddatum (die „Garantiefrist“) frei von Material- und Verarbeitungsfehlern ist.
See: Source 1 (due to spam filter)
https://pastebin.com/CzRqnTJ9

While for net purchases you have your regular 2 years in all of the EU:
>Wann beginnt die gesetzliche Gewährleistungsfrist von zwei Jahren?
>[...]
>Wenn Sie die Ware bezahlen, sie aber erst später geliefert wird, beginnt die Zweijahresfrist ab dem Zeitpunkt der Lieferung.
See: Source 2 (due to spam filter):
https://pastebin.com/CzRqnTJ9

TL;DR: If you live in the EU, don't let yourself get fucked over by tech companies pretending they don't have to follow the standard consumer laws. You have two years of guarantee for net-bought wares, unless you were retarded and bought an Index in a store.