Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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- Follow the rules of Sopuli
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- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
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Lottery system did work. It does not prevent scalpers from buying, but it gives humans, bots and scalpers the same chance to buy. They will end up selling a few units to the scalpers, just by chance, but at least they cannot buy everything; the chance of winning all lottery is effectively 0.
I propose that weighting results by factors like account activity, age, “level,” and whether someone is ordering from an official Steam client instead of the website would help. Nothing stops “normal” gamers from being scalpers, but ensuring your actual, loyal customers get preference is a good way to start.
Yes, that adds to the system. But we know scalpers had accounts back when the Steam Deck released and they probably prepared their accounts in case this happened again. Valve really need to make sure the accounts is an actual scalper and not a regular user / player (similar to making sure its an actual cheater compared to a player that looked like a cheater). And they can always purchase hacked or even pumped accounts for sale too. What I mean is, no matter what Valve does, there will always be scalpers.
And the reason why people buy from scalpers in ebay for these horrendous prices could be, because new users want to get into Steam and PC Gaming but don't want to have a typical PC in their living room. Because of account age and level and activity rating, they are not eligible to buy one from Valve. So in a sense, these scalpers are their only hope getting one, because without a PC they cannot play games and build their activity.