There was something in place to prevent scalpers from just making hundreds of accounts though. The registration opened on June 22nd for reference.

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They also randomized the initial signup and did it over a few days to give themselves time to validate accounts. So if your account was only a few days old prior to April 27th and you bought a $1 game with zero play time you probably still got caught.

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Here’s the link for those screenshots. They did more than most to try and limit bots/scalpers.