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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.
The account needs to have a game purchased before April 27th.
From the article:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plus, if there's a hundred reserved controllers all going to the same address that's a pretty big red flag