They have 72 hours to actually go through with the purchase and then steam offers it to next person. Seems like fake reservations might slow things down a bit but not really remove supply
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That’s me too and I’m not even a scalper. :(
I feel like they should have at least required a deposit so people don’t sing up when they don’t really plan to buy it.
With extremely limited supply anyone that doesn’t get Frame now, will probably have to pay an even higher price whenever stock is back…
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a somewhat solved problem already
Glastonbury festival has made you register your name, address and a mugshot for about a decade or so now
It gets printed on the ticket.
If you don’t look like the person on the ticket and don’t have the ID of the person named, you’re not getting in
Kinda invasive, but it’s basically killed touting
nous@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I would rather let a few people scalp some devices then give up ownership over the devices I buy. I would not want valve to have a remote way to brick something I have bought.
The fact you need an account in good standing and it’s limited to one per address helps a lot in cutting down on the number of devices that can be scalped. It is basically just a few individuals that can do that and not a few people systematically buying up all the stock at once to resell.
I would rather them focus on upping the supply then preventing every single scalper.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It being limited to one person address is a problem when you have a family though. Only single people are allowed to own this thing I guess. Can’t have gamer roommates.
I get it but it’ll be years before I can buy this thing or the stream machine mostly likely and it’s for a variety of reasons. My husband actually put in for the lottery for the steam machine and didn’t get picked.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
When it is hard enough for 1 person in a household to even get one steam hardware to share I’m fine with the one address limit. A household having multiple devices is a luxury when it is hard enough getting even one.
nous@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Yes it is a problem. But a temporary one that IMO is worth the tradeoff. You might not get multiple devices up front but that means other people can have a device at all. Why should you get 3-5 devices and stop 3-5 other people from having one at all? You can share a single device for several months while the initial wave die down and stock is able to be replenished. Then they will remove the restrictions and you can get multiple devices. In the meantime it means more people can get a device and helps to stop scalpers from getting them all. It is a tradeoff, ideally it would be better if there was enough devices for everyone that wants one to get one. But you can only scale production up so fast.
techt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can you change your address to a parent or friend’s house who won’t be buying it? Maybe that’s too risky as well
raman_klogius@ani.social 3 weeks ago
As per supply, unfortunately all the ai companies have bought all of next year’s ram
Senal@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
They have not.
They have provided an IOU from the bank of “trust me bro, this shit’s gonna moon” same as everyone else in that circlejerk of stockmarket destruction.
and the other side has said :
“sure bro, we’ll set you aside a 100 million future rams” *wink*while announcing this big “sale” they have completed to boost their stock price.
It’s fucking monopoly money to them and it’s going fuck everybody
SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I remember when tech used to depreciate in price with age.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Feels like another life…
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I signed up for a slot, but I had a thought that I’d just wait and get it cheaper later. Then I realized that’s not really how things work anymore somehow, and I could probably buy now and resell it higher later, even used, because none of this makes any sense.
This is, of course, assuming the current status quo continues. With the recent “AI needs to be restrained” comments from AI execs, it might crash soon and things go back to being sane.