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"Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in
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I mean they could check a lot of things. Verified purchases. Account age. Time spent gaming. Any barrier to entry, no matter how small, would stop the majority of scalping.
Require an account three months old, at least one verified purchase in the past year, ten hours played across any title(s).
I'm pretty sure 100% of real customers would hit each of those and nearly 0% of scalpers.
Most of this was already implemented. Valve required accounts to be at least 1 year old with at least one purchase. They did the same for the Steam Deck
Honestly I feel like it's too little. At the very least the first wave of Hardware should be something crazy like the account has to be at least 10 years old have at least 30 purchases total and have an average of 8 hours a week play time.
Sure there will be some legitimate people that get filtered by that but it will pretty much guarantee scalpers can't get anything in any serious volume
Oh! That's crazy then that they sold so many...
Yeah. And it's not like they're struggling to sell them...
No matter what restrictions they put, they'd sell as many as they had for sale.
Did they just let anyone buy as many as they want tho?
I read there was a limit of two per an account, but I'm not sure if it was enforced.
It was, I was capped at 2
There are rumors it was 2 per a cart, so the same account could buy two, multiple times.
Not a rumor it’s a fact and why we got screwed.
There's been no credible proof shown yet.