Steam just lost my sale.

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨A7thStone@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

They said they were combating bots. I tried checking out as soon as the new decks went on sale. I was going to get the limited edition. Once their servers finally caught up it said it was out of stock. I tried switching to the 1TB non limited edition and they said “you’ve been trying to make too many purchases”. I finally got through again and it said the regular one was out of stock. How was it not bots buying these of a regular user couldn’t get through.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I take it you weren’t there when the first preorders opened up.

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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Even if boys were non existent there’s an insanely high demand for not a lot of supply. People really need to start going into things with better expectations.
  
  I remember trying to get a 3000 series graphics card in 2020. Shit just hard to get now, gaming is more profitable than movies now. Fact is day 1 it’s always going to be like this - forever
  
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  - A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, the fact is that capitalism is bleeding is dry, and no-one cares because for one brief moment the share holders made a shit ton of money.
    
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- p5f20w18k@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I member
  
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PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Could also have just been some regular buyers getting lucky while others didn’t get through. Bots would have had the same issues, getting through the broken servers.

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helloharu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looking at Twitter, there’s been a massive demand. It took me nearly 30mins to get my order in so it was certainly possible for regular users.

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Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just bought a 512 OLED here in Europe and it was unreal how easy it was to buy. I logged in an hour after sales went live, put in my information and clicked buy. That’s it. Estimated delivery in 3-5 business days, and I honestly don’t know if I actually trust that.

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- A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I finally got the 1Tb, but I’ve gotten used to the anti-glare screen.
  
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  - Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Honestly, I think the anti-glare might have been fine. I got the 512 because it was cheaper and I had heard some of the concerns about the vibrancy of the anti-glare. In retrospect, I doubt I would have cared that much. Plus the extra storage and dual case would are a pretty compelling value proposition as well.
    
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azdle@news.idlestate.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Keep trying, it came back in stock for me, and I got that message on the OG deck preorder day, but still managed to get in with a pretty early ship date.

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- A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks, I did finally get through that’s why I edited my rant.
  
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cpw@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨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…

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- Chailles@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.
  
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keyez@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I did get a limited edition one after 2 hours of trying minutes after the launch.

I also got that error about too many purchases, logged me out a handful of times, out of stock only to say failed to initiate order a dozen times after that but finally got one.

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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d just assume they don’t want my money and I wouldn’t give it to them.

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- A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Also my original assumption, but man is this thing pretty.
  
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