Submitted 12 hours ago by SatyrSack@quokk.au to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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[Frame] Honest hardworking scalpers when you tell them there's a reservation lottery
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…
With extremely limited supply anyone that doesn’t get Frame now, will probably have to pay an even higher price whenever stock is back…
I remember when tech used to depreciate in price with age.
Feels like another life…
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
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
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.
I got fucked on the steam cube lottery but I’ll take it any day over watching the scrapers buy everything
I expect they’ll just script/automate some way to get 1000 entries for every legitimate one. Then again, I’m not familiar with what the entry requirements are. Unless the entry requirements are more than the potential profit, you’re still going to see scalping.
if it’s like for the steam machine, the account must have existed for like six months before the start date and must have previously purchased something.
It is. Steam account with a purchase from before April 27.
The Asian official booking webpage is completely crashed…
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.
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).
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.
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.
Hope I get the golden ticket.
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
FYI read the small print: they’ll remove entries with the same address, so if you live with other people don’t all join the queue or you’ll silently disqualify yourselves.