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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...
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...
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Yes it is a problem. But a temporary one that IMO is worth the tradeoff. You might not get multiple devices up front but that means other people can have a device at all. Why should you get 3-5 devices and stop 3-5 other people from having one at all? You can share a single device for several months while the initial wave die down and stock is able to be replenished. Then they will remove the restrictions and you can get multiple devices. In the meantime it means more people can get a device and helps to stop scalpers from getting them all. It is a tradeoff, ideally it would be better if there was enough devices for everyone that wants one to get one. But you can only scale production up so fast.
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
Obsession 2025... you know... for science
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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.
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.
I got fucked on the steam cube lottery but I'll take it any day over watching the scrapers buy everything
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.
Oof, ok. Whelp, at least you got one :)
The Asian official booking webpage is completely crashed...
Just don't buy it till the lottery ends, not like you need it this second.
The lottery is just for the first wave of shipments. After that, it's a reservation queue. It also requires an account that's been active for some period of time, and has made purchases (to try to cut down on scalper accounts).
Is there a source for that? I am on the list but haven't made many purchases
Eligibility: You must be a legal resident of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, any EU Member State, or Australia, at least 18 years old, and the registered account holder of an unlimited Steam account who has made one purchase prior to April 27, 2026.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0AC8-A264-CC02-14F0
If selected, you will be notified via email using the email address associated with your qualifying Steam account on or about September 17, 2026 that you have been added to the reservation queue. As units become available, people in the reservation queue will receive an email with the option to purchase. We'll send the first batch of those starting Friday, September 18, 2026. Those emails will include a link for purchasing the Product (“Link”). The Link will expire 72 hours after it is sent by Valve. If you do not buy the Product by the expiration date, your opportunity will also expire. If you are not selected, you will receive an email letting you know that you’ve been added to the waitlist and we'll let you know when more units become available.
I mean, ok I guess.
But have you considered how much better a world could be created by making scalping a capital offense?
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.
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?
