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Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th [one Steam Controller per user] [req: account in good standing on Steam] [req:purchases on Steam prior to April 27, 2026] (store.steampowered.com)
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[+] -20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I know it's probably to stop scalpers, but it does seem weird that there are requirements that need to be met in order to even buy one.

I think the biggest one for me is the "account must be in good standing"

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    why? Hackers keep losing. Seems like a good reason to me.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    On the other hand there there are also games that may erroneously flag accounts for cheating using false positives from other anti cheat systems. Can't remember the exact details but iirc CoD had this issue a few years back and it affected the VAC status of Steam accounts.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I have a 22 year old steam account, played every cod on there, every decent multiplayer shooter that came out the past 22 years, not once did I get a false ban on that account. Cheaters love to lie. Vac has always reverted false vac bans if there was one that happened to people.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Your first problem was still playing Call of Duty in this day and age. After Activision fucked over paying Infinity Ward developers back in 2010, the writing was on the wall. The franchise should have been abandoned be fans and it's only been downhill every release since further proving that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I think is unfair to say playing one of the best popular game series that has been popular for 20 years is the players fault.

    Those games are total trash now, but that’s not the point.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I think is unfair to say playing one of the best popular game series that has been popular for 20 years is the players fault.

    Popular, yes. Best, is extremely debatable.

    After 2010, the games dropped off a cliff. Infinity Ward were the ones that brought the series back from death in the first place. Treyarch were always the second tier COD studio, and it showed after half the IW team left to form Respawn Entertainment.

    Although I guess we should sort of be happy that happened since we got Titanfall out of it. That would never have happened otherwise.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is 100% to curb scalpers... When the initial rush has cleared, I'm pretty sure they will loosen the restrictions

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's not even enough though, if it doesn't even require you to have purchased games before people have multiple accounts.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    From the article:

    • Your account must be in good standing on Steam

    • You must have made a purchase on Steam prior to April 27, 2026

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Most accounts make a purchase, as its a requirement to unlock most of Steam's features and most accounts are in good standing.

    A purchase within the last year would be better, but I think they are not concerned with scalpers. This system makes people have less fear of missing out and gives Valve more numbers of how many they actually need to produce.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    If you know anything about production pipelines, you also know that there's zero chance that the production pipeline can respond in any way to the amount of reservations... Every controller that gets produced in at least the next year has already been ordered by Valve... Any scaling of the production pipeline in response to reservations won't happen for a very long time.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Purchase can be just a 1 cent game, and free games you add to your library might count, that's the definition of an alt account.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, you could just buy a 1 cent game... However the date is in the past. So a scalper would have needed to set up a lot of accounts in advance even before the controller itself was released, and then have purchased something on all those accounts... To me this seems like a very reasonable way to distinguish legitimate players from the scalpers.

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