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[–] 49 points 1 month ago (31 children)

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...

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  • [–] [S] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (26 children)

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (25 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (22 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    As per supply, unfortunately all the ai companies have bought all of next year's ram

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    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

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Obsession 2025... you know... for science

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 month ago*

    Nikki Frowning or Obsession "How Your Girlfriend Looks At You" refers to a series of memes, including X / Twitter posts, using a reaction image of the character Nikki (played by actress Inde Navarrette) from the 2026 horror film Obsession frowning under a variation of the phrasal template "How your girlfriend looks at you when you X," "X" being framed as a reasonable request that the girlfriend does not want to go through with.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nikki-frowning-obsession-how-your-girlfriend-looks-at-you

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    [–] 29 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    I got fucked on the steam cube lottery but I'll take it any day over watching the scrapers buy everything

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Just don't buy it till the lottery ends, not like you need it this second.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Is there a source for that? I am on the list but haven't made many purchases

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    The Asian official booking webpage is completely crashed...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I mean, ok I guess.

    But have you considered how much better a world could be created by making scalping a capital offense?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Hope I get the golden ticket.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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?

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