Comment on My steam machine arrived!

Drewmeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I believe you can email steam about it.

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To what end?

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    • dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They have a legal department, money and an interest in people not reselling their stuff when there is still an waiting que.

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      • auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There is nothing illegal about it

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    • JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If Valve wanted to be petty they know what Steam account the preorder for each serial number of Steam machine came from(they know family accounts as well, etc). They could stop you from logging into Steam on any account that isn’t that one for some duration of time. It’s not fool proof and likely depends on the OS reporting hardware information correctly but they could make it a big enough annoyance to deter people. Once the supply catches up and scalpers are less interested the whole system could just be dropped. It likely isn’t worth the effort to set it up and manage complaints though.

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I believe they could in theory do something like that, with limited success. Nothing is keeping anyone from creating hundreds of new steam accounts just to purchase the hardware. If the scalpers never fire up the steam machines, and sell them, it would be horrible for Valve to start punishing people that Vought those devices if they log in and they can tell the serial number or something.

        It would be very complicated for Valve to do something about this, with very little reward for them or the actual final owners.

        At the end of the day, they are selling like crazy, way above what I thought they would due to pricing, and scalpers taking them off of their hands is still revenue for them.

        I still believe the only thing that can stop scalpers is letting them purchase 1 or 2 whole batches of whatever, and never buy from them, not even if they match the price on Steam. Let them keep all that inventory to rot.

        But that’s not happening, so.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Steam’s mailbox I presume.

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