[Frame] Honest hardworking scalpers when you tell them there's a reservation lottery
Obsession 2025… you know… for science
Submitted 3 weeks ago by SatyrSack@quokk.au to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That film was weird. It’s like the director decided half-way through, “actually this is too cringe for me, I’m just gonna have fun with it”
degen@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
It’s like a 9/10 movie at least, and it’s supposed to be unsatisfying or at least unresolved, but I’d argue nothing is too cringe for Curry Barker. Look up their YouTube channel “that’s a bad idea” if you want to see just how wacky they are.
I love movies that end like that and ones that go off the rails in the last act, leaving you wondering what you just watched.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Hey the ending had to be as it was to remind you that it was NOT a documentary about your worst ex.
Well, maybe just me. There was tons of similarity in behaviour patterns until things went completely off the rails. 'cept mine wasn’t bound by a wish, but rather the desire to have complete control over me. Honestly think Nikki was less problematic in that regard, she at least had no choice.
Kushan@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m so fucking glad I didn’t update my address after moving recently so my wife and I don’t have the same address.
I’m asking every friend that doesn’t want one to line for me. I still think the demand will outpace supply so much it won’t even matter.
bingrazer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How do you do that, I don’t see an address anywhere on my account. Is it if you have added a payment method to the account?
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I care enough to want it but I’ll just throw my name in the hat and see where it lands.
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was considering the same strategy, but I don’t know how it would work having a device that was bought on another account. I’m sure the other person would have to pay from their own account, and that they could still ship to a different address, but what about support later on? Or what about the accessory kits that are only available for Frame owners, like the ergonomic kit or the upcoming enthusiast kit? Still trying to figure out if it’s worth it to ask friends to join me in the lottery.
spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just put one of your vacation homes! Duuuuuh
/s
barkingspiders@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I got fucked on the steam cube lottery but I’ll take it any day over watching the scrapers buy everything
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No worries, scalpers can still get their way on the Asian region website. There’s no lottery. They released it this morning, and within the hour, all units were sold. I think there was a limit of how many per head you could get, but still, no biggie for scalpers. I managed out of sheer luck to get mine, but definitely a lottery might have been better.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oof, ok. Whelp, at least you got one :)
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I assume some amount of units are already imported into the U.S.
zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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).
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 3 weeks 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.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 2 weeks 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
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
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.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It is. Steam account with a purchase from before April 27.
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Asian official booking webpage is completely crashed…
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I mean, ok I guess.
But have you considered how much better a world could be created by making scalping a capital offense?
SatyrSack@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not Steam, but does anyone else remember the music artist that got pissed at scalpers and just kept selling tickets and adding shows at a venue until the scalpers gave up?
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hope I get the golden ticket.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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…
SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I remember when tech used to depreciate in price with age.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Feels like another life…
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I signed up for a slot, but I had a thought that I’d just wait and get it cheaper later. Then I realized that’s not really how things work anymore somehow, and I could probably buy now and resell it higher later, even used, because none of this makes any sense.
This is, of course, assuming the current status quo continues. With the recent “AI needs to be restrained” comments from AI execs, it might crash soon and things go back to being sane.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
nous@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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.