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Good to know. Thanks. It’s crazy they didn’t do this from the beginning.
If I remember correctly they did setup a similar reservation system for the Steamdeck when it came out?
I think they wanted to leave a bunch of scalpers as bag holders. It’s kinda genius. Let the scalpers go crazy buying a shitload of controllers, then later let actual consumers buy and reserve. So actual players have a reason NOT to buy from the inflated scalpers, and the scalpers are left with a bunch of controllers they can’t sell because everyone is buying them at fair price.
And the scalpers will have a hard time buying up the second stock, because many of them likely already blew a lot of money the first time, and the second time will require a lot of bottery that will be even more expensive to try and pull off.
There was a full news cycle of tech folks talking about how “they are so in demand, they sold out instantly.” Build the hype with free press.
Valve has enough experience with this to know exactly what they were doing.
Whooo!!! That’s really good news for me, I was bummed to miss out on the first drop
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”
why? Hackers keep losing. Seems like a good reason to me.
This is 100% to curb scalpers… When the initial rush has cleared, I’m pretty sure they will loosen the restrictions
It’s not even enough though, if it doesn’t even require you to have purchased games before people have multiple accounts.
From the article:
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Your account must be in good standing on Steam
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You must have made a purchase on Steam prior to April 27, 2026
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