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Steam Hardware
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Disincentivize scalpers.
How does that work? They already enforce one unit per household.
Shuffling the order queue means that even ordering one with a scripted bot is senseless because it's not first come, first serve.
Not happy myself that I'm in the 2027 group but maybe some hero ports SteamOS to the Quest 3, then I could cancel my order and save money. I genuinely want one mainly as an unencumbered VLC player with a giant virtual screen.
And yet there are still scalpers. All it did was stop legit buyers from having a chance.
I have been against this stupid ass lottery since day 1.
I was able to get every single valve hardware on day 1 prior to the lottery. This is first time I didn’t get valve hardware at launch.
What would recommend when demand is higher than supply? In this scenario usually some group needs to wait.
I have been able to add to cart for every steam hardware right at launch. There is nothing that needs to be done except for removing the unnecessary lottery.
If people are too slow and can’t handle it, then that’s their problem not mine. The lottery was what held me back from buying a steam frame, not a scalper.
I also think Valve should have given accounts that already had purchased hardware in the past a priority. Like you have 1000 games and all their hardware versus some account with no games and no hardware purchases.