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I’m not a scalper and I hate this lottery system. My friend signed up for steam machine and still hasn’t received his email.

I have purchased every valve hardware since the first controller. Never had a problem just clicking add to cart and buying. Same shit when Covid hit and 3090s were just released. Got one direct from Nvidia no problem.

Now with this lottery crap I might never get my reservation due to RNG. I rather just be first in line on the purchase day.

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Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I rather just be first in line on the purchase day.

That’s just it. The scalpers have bots that can both do this faster than you and at scale. The idea of being “first in line” is simply not realistic anymore. The lottery ensures some semblance of fairness for a limited supply brought on by the AI tech bros buying up production capacity for the next two years (or more).

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steelplatedmech@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I like it because free for all never worked for me and I experienced the worst of it trying to get a gpu during the crypto craze and everyone using bots and alerts to try to snipe something that would go out of stock in seconds.

EVGA game in clutch and did queue system and I got my card for msrp. And I liked it when Valve did it for the Steam Deck.

Hated when Steam Controller did a free for all and ended up wasting couple of hours clicking and coming up empty handed. They went to queue and I finally got one after a few months.

I’d rather wait and if it takes a year or longer so be it, but a free for all approach is one I know I’ll have zero chance at compared to the lotto.

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chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There it is, folks. The ramblings of a selfish person who doesn’t understand that this system is in place to help them. Ignorant as hell.

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- FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I managed to grab my steam controller on the 4th when it dropped and it got… well I’m not great with time but I think I got it in July.
  
  But anyways I lucked out and when I heard of the machine (and assumed frame) would have the reservation queue INITIALLY I was disliked it. I was thinking even with bots people could grab it, then I saw the amount of scalp listings
  
  And then thinking about it, the window allows people not to plan around the date, I was lucky with the controller that I could use my college WiFi in the middle of lecture. But people at work or otherwise unable to fight in the refreshing gauntlet, or me on frame day sleeping through the announcement by 15 minutes.
  
  Like I’m a little sore because… well idk why… but I think the benifits greatly outweigh the cons compared to the gauntlet of clicks
  
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