SatyrSack
Steam HardwareFYI 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.
I got fucked on the steam cube lottery but I'll take it any day over watching the scrapers buy everything
Obsession 2025... you know... for science
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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...
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
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...
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
Not quite sure how you do this with hardware, perhaps tying it to the device?
Maybe you need to own the device for a year or two before you're allowed to use it with another account
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.
It being limited to one person address is a problem when you have a family though. Only single people are allowed to own this thing I guess. Can't have gamer roommates.
I get it but it'll be years before I can buy this thing or the stream machine mostly likely and it's for a variety of reasons. My husband actually put in for the lottery for the steam machine and didn't get picked.
I have no idea how their system handles a second attempt with a different account but the same address but I'm not sure I want to find out even though I would like to buy one.
When it is hard enough for 1 person in a household to even get one steam hardware to share I'm fine with the one address limit. A household having multiple devices is a luxury when it is hard enough getting even one.
My husband actually put in for the lottery for the steam machine and didn't get picked.
The lottery is only for the first batch. Everyone else is supposed to be chronologically based
As per supply, unfortunately all the ai companies have bought all of next year's ram
They have not.
They have provided an IOU from the bank of "trust me bro, this shit's gonna moon" same as everyone else in that circlejerk of stockmarket destruction.
and the other side has said :
"sure bro, we'll set you aside a 100 million future rams" *wink*
while announcing this big "sale" they have completed to boost their stock price.
It's fucking monopoly money to them and it's going fuck everybody
The Asian official booking webpage is completely crashed...
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.
Hope I get the golden ticket.
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.
