Comment on Steam Frame updates: People in the reservation queue should be able to see if they're getting their frame this year or next.

• SavinDWhales@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s the planned production run, not already produced units that’ll all go to the reservation queue.

  So if you’re in the queue, you’re guaranteed to get one. The wait-list will… have to wait.

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  • CriticalThought@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks! My assumption has been that Valve would not stop making frames while there’s a literal line of people trying to buy one, so eventually everyone on the waitlist would be offered to buy one after some unknown (potentially long) wait time. Might they stop making them before then?

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    • Rinn@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ideally that would be the case, but the last few years were a disaster for the consumer electronics market due to all the RAM and GPUs in the world being sold to AI hyperscalers. So if there’s just physically no components to make these things from, then that’s that.

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      • CriticalThought@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for this perspective. I knew RAM was scarce, but it never occurred to me that things were so bad that in-demand electronics might simply stop being made as a result.

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• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not going to do the research for you just because you lack basic comprehension skills. The difference is right there in the faq. I even went out of my way to post the screenshots of each item you inquired about.

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  • CriticalThought@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s nothing to research. Though I genuinely appreciate the effort you went to, i’m afraid you’ve missed the point repetedly, which is ironic given your rude accusations. Not sure if you’re trolling or blindly repeating things that have been said to you, but you’re definitely not adding anything of value right now.

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• Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Read again. The distinction is very clearly stated.

  Reservation queue : There is a product for you in the current batch, just wait for it to be available before purchasing it.

  Waitlist : There wasn’t enough products in this batch to put you in the queue, but if someone in the queue decide not to buy, his product will be assigned to someone else, and a spot will be freed from the waitlist, allowing someone (probably randomly chosen in the waitlist) to join the queue.

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  • CriticalThought@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree: it’s a distinction without a difference. If they have the product now, why can’t it be purchased until next year? If you have to wait to purchase (and assuming valve will keep making frames as long as there’s a literal line of people eager to buy them), it’s functionally the same as the waiting list: wait until there’s stock ready to ship and it’s your turn. I’m not sure what difference in practice you’re seeing?

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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They DON’T have the product, but they do have secured the parts and manufacture, so it gets slowly built, after which small batches are dispached around the world, before getting assigned to someone in the queue to be bought (if he still wish to).

      For the waitlist, they don’t have secured enough parts to buy a chunk of manufacturing time to assemble them. From the look of it they decided to buy additional manufacturing time chunks in 2028, but don’t know yet when they will be, so wait & see.

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      • CriticalThought@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks! I feel that ought to have been better communicated, since naturally there’s some implied timing. For example, if I said I had a car available for you to buy, how long do I have to be able to provide the car before my claim it’s available seems false? 1 year? Longer?

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