I hate scalping because it negatively impacts me, but scalpers absolutely provides a service regardless of how scummy we think it is. Objectively speaking, scalping guarantees you a product that would’ve flown off the shelves just as fast at MSRP, but you pay a hefty premium for that guarantee
To give an example with the PS5. Scalpers buy up a whole supply. Middle aged gamer dad who doesn’t have the time to hunt for stock, which he still would’ve had to do without scalpers, sees an eBay listing. He has the money for it, so he says fk it and gets a PS5 way sooner than he would’ve othwrwise
Buying a scalped product is one of a few options for getting something in crazy high demand. You could wait anxiously for each supply drop to get one instantly (which isn’t a given even w/o bots) before they’re sold out, you could go on a waiting list for when the next stock is ready (have to wait for others first) for you specifically, or you could skip all that and pay the premium for one that’s easily accessible on eBay
To play a bit of devil’s advocate, from what Ive seen scalpers are usually people from parts of the world with virtually no better ways to make money and/or people with very few economic opportunities.
But not always, sometimes it’s just some broski with too much time and money on their hands lol
You’re either delusional or a scalper yourself. Either way stop defending this with “what if”. There are lots of ways to make money, even in those “parts of the world”. Scalping is scummy and trashy even if it happened on Mars.
Always but is this really the smartest move by Steam?
No one asked for an oled. Not sure how the deck will work but my tv wants shutting down every 5 hours to stop screen burn. I’ve no idea how that will work with a high demand game pumping at 10x the heat of my tv
Secondly no one asked for this. Everyone I know wanted an inch bigger screen, better performance.
So now they want £550 for oled and 1-2 fos boost and a bigger battery.
I would have purchased this, but then the lenovo legion exists giving me 1.5 inches bigger screen and a 30 fps improvement, for an extra £150
I mean steam have essentially pushed me away by not listening. So scalpers will be done as I’m putting my deck for sale on cheap as a few of my friends are.
Who wanted a bigger screen? Steam Deck is already pretty big for a handheld. 90Hz OLED is the biggest game changer they could do without making Deck 2. Nintendo did the same.
Scalpers can get fucked.
Yes they can. But so can valve for making this
Exactly. No resting in peace.
Hey bro, chill man, just supply and demand bro. I demanded 10 decks and will supply them to you for the cost of 20 decks pal.
I’m just providing a service. These things get cleared out of stores (because of me) and I’m giving people a chance to get one (from me)
I hate scalping because it negatively impacts me, but scalpers absolutely provides a service regardless of how scummy we think it is. Objectively speaking, scalping guarantees you a product that would’ve flown off the shelves just as fast at MSRP, but you pay a hefty premium for that guarantee
To give an example with the PS5. Scalpers buy up a whole supply. Middle aged gamer dad who doesn’t have the time to hunt for stock, which he still would’ve had to do without scalpers, sees an eBay listing. He has the money for it, so he says fk it and gets a PS5 way sooner than he would’ve othwrwise
Buying a scalped product is one of a few options for getting something in crazy high demand. You could wait anxiously for each supply drop to get one instantly (which isn’t a given even w/o bots) before they’re sold out, you could go on a waiting list for when the next stock is ready (have to wait for others first) for you specifically, or you could skip all that and pay the premium for one that’s easily accessible on eBay
To play a bit of devil’s advocate, from what Ive seen scalpers are usually people from parts of the world with virtually no better ways to make money and/or people with very few economic opportunities.
But not always, sometimes it’s just some broski with too much time and money on their hands lol
Shut the fuck up
You’re either delusional or a scalper yourself. Either way stop defending this with “what if”. There are lots of ways to make money, even in those “parts of the world”. Scalping is scummy and trashy even if it happened on Mars.
Always but is this really the smartest move by Steam?
No one asked for an oled. Not sure how the deck will work but my tv wants shutting down every 5 hours to stop screen burn. I’ve no idea how that will work with a high demand game pumping at 10x the heat of my tv
Secondly no one asked for this. Everyone I know wanted an inch bigger screen, better performance.
So now they want £550 for oled and 1-2 fos boost and a bigger battery.
I would have purchased this, but then the lenovo legion exists giving me 1.5 inches bigger screen and a 30 fps improvement, for an extra £150
I mean steam have essentially pushed me away by not listening. So scalpers will be done as I’m putting my deck for sale on cheap as a few of my friends are.
What kind of drugs are you on?
Who wanted a bigger screen? Steam Deck is already pretty big for a handheld. 90Hz OLED is the biggest game changer they could do without making Deck 2. Nintendo did the same.
I would have preferred a slightly larger one: But the OLED pushes back the bevels a bit, so it effectively has one!
People have been asking for an OLED since the Deck released.
Why is your first and second point the exact same.
Cool, buy the Lenovo then. Glad you solved your own problem.
F’s in the chat for the billions of dollars Valve have costed themselves by pushing you away. 😔