I got a place on the 512GB with Controller list, and got an email a few days after they started. I ordered it on Friday the 3rd and got it today on Thursday the 9th. The tracking codes were all over the place and gave different estimates depending which branch of each company I used. Steam claimed it was shipped when the courier said they hadn’t got it so I was worried for a few days. But this morning Royal Mail (UK customer) sent me an email saying it would arrive today, while GLS said it would arrive tomorrow.
Safe to say I’m happy to have it now and be playing games!
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Put it in your ass!
Show us what you’re really about…
One (wo)man one machine.
I appreciate the inclusivity.
I get this reference, having seen the source material a thousand time, voluntarily and with raging erection
A gentle(wo)man of culture I see!
I are a cyborg, thank you. My pronouns are 0/1/null and I am grateful to be both a porn star and a new member of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints. You should come to one of our churches this weekend, especially if you are trans or a furry. Especially if you are a furry. I’m doing science for God.
Holy shit I’m so glad I get to experience this humour now, considering Reddit is practically 90% bots and information warfare. Side note FUCK U/SPEZ FOR SELLING OUT TO CORPORATE INTERESTS AND KILLING THE YEARLY PIXEL ART AND ORIGINAL AWARDS.
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Bro, I are famous. Everyone knows who I am but you
Such a great looking piece of tech. Looks like it belongs on a better timeline than this shit one.
I’m on the waiting list, and boy is it annoying to see them being listed on ebay
I believe you can email steam about it.
To what end?
They have a legal department, money and an interest in people not reselling their stuff when there is still an waiting que.
There is nothing illegal about it
And, they’d look like dicks if they got legal involved with people who legit ordered them
Fuck scalpers. Opportunistic pieces of shit, all of them. I hope Valve sues them into homelessness.
As much as I hate scalpers, there are no laws broken.
That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be. Morality informs legality, not the other way around. Also lawsuits are civil, that’s breaking a contract with another entity; “breaking the law” refers to criminal.
Like any of us here, I also hate scalpers to no end. But let’s be realistic here, there’s nothing Valve can do about scalpers (at least not legally). That was the reason for my question. Email Valve to let them know about scalpers, online or otherwise, then what?
Now, if everyone chose to never buy from scalpers, if everyone would prefer to miss out before paying horrible people ridiculous prices because of hype, scalpers would eventually disappear.
But just like avoiding mainstream social networks, the convenience of Google, Apple and Microsoft, enjoying same day delivery from Amazon or forking over an extra 40% to get food over Uber Eats instead of getting off of our asses to go get something to eat is unimaginable to most people out there, too many would rather spend a month’s worth of rent on things they want, but don’t really need due to FOMO.
You are absolutely correct in your statement.
If we want to block scalpers and predatory businesses (not talking about Valve here) we need to start somewhere. Some of us already do self-hosting, moved to Lemmy and Mastodon, and dropped Microslop for some type of Linux distros, but we’re a ridiculous minority.
In my case, some of the people in my life even started calling me to ask me for suggestions to start getting away from those companies, same people that told me I was paranoid and “voluntarily suffering for no reason” when i eliminated Facebook and WhatsApp. And, of course, even now that they see that I was right all along, when I say “close all the Meta bullshit” and such, the response is, invariably, but that’s how I communicate with everyone.
So, yeah, scalpers will keep scalping, predatory businesses will keep at it too, because they can, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it, other than sit back, relax, and watch all the users cry their eyes out when shit hits the fan. I’m pretty sure we’re not far from that moment.
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If Valve wanted to be petty they know what Steam account the preorder for each serial number of Steam machine came from(they know family accounts as well, etc). They could stop you from logging into Steam on any account that isn’t that one for some duration of time. It’s not fool proof and likely depends on the OS reporting hardware information correctly but they could make it a big enough annoyance to deter people. Once the supply catches up and scalpers are less interested the whole system could just be dropped. It likely isn’t worth the effort to set it up and manage complaints though.
I believe they could in theory do something like that, with limited success. Nothing is keeping anyone from creating hundreds of new steam accounts just to purchase the hardware. If the scalpers never fire up the steam machines, and sell them, it would be horrible for Valve to start punishing people that Vought those devices if they log in and they can tell the serial number or something.
It would be very complicated for Valve to do something about this, with very little reward for them or the actual final owners.
At the end of the day, they are selling like crazy, way above what I thought they would due to pricing, and scalpers taking them off of their hands is still revenue for them.
I still believe the only thing that can stop scalpers is letting them purchase 1 or 2 whole batches of whatever, and never buy from them, not even if they match the price on Steam. Let them keep all that inventory to rot.
But that’s not happening, so.
There was something in place to prevent scalpers from just making hundreds of accounts though. The registration opened on June 22nd for reference.
They also randomized the initial signup and did it over a few days to give themselves time to validate accounts. So if your account was only a few days old prior to April 27th and you bought a $1 game with zero play time you probably still got caught.
Here’s the link for those screenshots. They did more than most to try and limit bots/scalpers. Edit: This was also posted on June 22, so they’d have to have had insider knowledge or already had hundreds of accounts spun up.
Oh, from my perspective, Valve is the one business I don’t mind throwing money at today. Every other large corporatiin out there has gone to shit entirely. Even Ubuntu and RedHat have their little things I can’t stand.
Steam’s emailbox I presume.
Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Tell me what’s the first game you’re going to play! :)
I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3, as it crashes my desktop so I’ve not been able to play it for the last year or two.
I’ve been a patient gamer on that front, waiting for it to dip below 40% discount.
…any day now.
I’m waiting for the gog $4.99 deal in 15 years.
Atp just pirate the game and when they discount the game, buy it
At least, that’s what my non pirate friends usually do
My threshold is $10. Not $10 discount. $10 or less total price w/o tax. I’m gonna wait a long time.
As long as you have plenty of time, the price per hours you can spend in that game is very low.
It’s got to be a cozy game that doesn’t stress the hardware. Probably Stardew Valley or similar :p
Sable!
That’s right. Gotta break it in like a new engine.
Jumpman or Oregon Trail for the first 500 hours should do it.
I was expecting a picture of a humidifier.
Just put a bowl of water on top, run cyberpunk and you’ve got one.
cackles maniacally in 4090
I looked at the picture for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out what kind of steam generating device it was before realizing it wasn’t a shitpost.
Please let us know how it performs! I know it’s not gonna blow our socks off but a regular human being using it to gauge its ease of setup and use would be nice.
Sometimes the “I built my pc from scratch starting with smelting the copper ore for the circuit board traces and folding together the case out of a single sheet of steel with my BARE HANDS” perspective has blind spots with regard to everyday usage.
I’ve had mine since Monday and so far I’ve been very happy with it. Because of my work schedule, I’ve probably only played about 2-4 hours but the convenience of how quickly it boots up or even just being able to pause/resume a game like on the Steam Deck has been amazing.
I got the 2TB Machine so I got the 2 extra faceplates, both are really nice and I’ve opted to go with the wooden one. All 3 (2 extras and the normal black one) feel very well built (each is slightly different due to the variation in materials) and are extremely easy to swap due to the magnets.
Setup was a bit tricky though. I’d gotten my Steam Controller when they initially came out so it was paired to my desktop PC. I tried to follow the setup video that Valve posted but even with the puck connected to my Machine, it just wouldn’t work. If I wired the controller directly to the Machine, it would work for a couple of inputs then it would stop. That being said, I plugged in an Xbox controller, which immediately worked. Then after running the various firmware updates, the Machine actually recognized that the Steam Controller wasn’t paired properly and it walked me through how to pair it with it. Since doing that, I’ve not had any issues with it and the controller has been able to turn on the Machine from sleep or even from a power off state every time I’ve tried. CEC has also been hit or miss, it’s really convenient when it works but sometimes it won’t switch the input or turn off my TV after shutting down. That being said, I’m pretty sure it’s more an issue with my TV than the Machine since I’ve had similar CEC issues before.
Happy to test anything (non destructive of course) or expand on anything I’ve said if anyone is curious.
Fascinating!! Honestly I think I’m even more inclined to buy one myself now ^-^
it’s going to take a little time while i save up, but hopefully the price won’t increase it out of my reach in the mean time…
Neat, hope you like it! I was interested in one as an upgrade to my Steam Deck since I mostly use it docked, but even before the RAMpocalypse pricing, when Valve said it would be priced like a PC I knew it would too rich for my blood. I’m guessing it was supposed to be around $750, still too high for me to justify.
How’s it so far?
Ugh happy for you. I really had in my head that being in the reservation queue meant that I would have mine by now!
I know, I’ve been seeing so many people get theirs I’ve been checking my email daily afraid I somehow lost the email telling me I can purchase now lol
Have fun!
I’ve yet to recieve the purchase email.
Nvm just checked me email, came in overnight. No the decision to open that money is real.
Yeah they sent me an email to basically say no. The randomised list has apparently put me too far down so now I’m not going to get one.
No time frame or anything just no.
Sigh.
I got my invite to purchase email midweek. And I didn’t read the fine print like a chump… I selected every model, and the model they offered me was of course, the priciest.
So I have to let it pass me by because I thought I’d get the option for the cheaper one.
Enjoy. I’ll get the next steam train. Your model.
Maybe RAM will be cheaper by then.
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Curious. If you had no intention of buying the most expensive one, then what was the point of taking a spot in the reservation queue for it?
I’m not sure I understand the logic here. How would joining the queue for the $1500 give you the winning seat in the $1050 one?
Like a chump, as I said.
I suppose at the time, I thought of it as a ballot therefore enter every list and I might have more chances at getting any.
Was on the cusp at the higher price point. On reflection, it’s not the best value and I should’ve gone with less storage.
so jealous. i got mine, but wasn’t able to nab a controller… so i’ve been just complaining about all the minor issues i’m rediscovering with all my old controllers, lol. (not steam issues, just “these face buttons are too squishy”, “i forgot this one had stick drift”, etc, i’ve been pure steam-deck for a while…). Good news is i can connect just about anything to it, so that’s nice. but a steam controller will be even better! Eventually!
Is there not a way to use the deck as a controller?
i know i can stream games to the deck… so surely that’s possible. good idea!
