Comment on Steam just lost my sale.
cpw@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, I got the error page a bunch of times, then the “we’re out of stock”, and finally, an order confirmation! I suspect the servers were just overloaded - valve is definitely underestimating demand - and then they were running into fulfillment issues that have slowly been sorted out.
There’s no doubt some bots got some, but I think there’s a lot of happy second steamdeck owners today as well…
Chailles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think it’s a matter of underestimating demand. Granted, I don’t know anything about scalability in terms of infrastructure for this stuff, but I figure they may have just figured it not worth it to scale things up for a demand that will fix itself within hours.