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VladTepesDraculea@alien.topB to Steam DeckEnglish · 2 years ago

Valve is promoting the limited edition of Steam Deck OLED in my country, in my language and, in the same breath, telling me I can't buy it because it is for US and Canada only... -.-'

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Valve is promoting the limited edition of Steam Deck OLED in my country, in my language and, in the same breath, telling me I can't buy it because it is for US and Canada only... -.-'

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VladTepesDraculea@alien.topB to Steam DeckEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • SnooDoughnuts5632@alien.topB
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    2 years ago

    You guys can just get done to send it to you from the USA. It may cost you though.

  • PhukUspez@alien.topB
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    That is a symptom of how the client works and why I am a massive advocate for valve rewriting the fucking client. As it stands, the client is literally the chrome browser with some baked in addons and is fucking trash, Valves top tier service aside.

  • Constant_Peach3972@alien.topB
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    Even if it were in your language I doubt you’d get one tbh, the will vanish in 10 seconds

  • shatonyou@alien.topB
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    I actually would’ve upgraded if they had this in Europe…

    • VladTepesDraculea@alien.topOPB
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      I don’t know the price difference but since it also has the etched glass I’d still pass, it counters the OLED color benefits.

  • dusto_man@alien.topB
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    Maybe they thought they could do more countries than it ended up being.

  • wradale@alien.topB
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    Sloppy

  • PomboRich@alien.topB
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    Someone didn’t tell the translation team to skip this one.

    • UnsureAndUnqualified@alien.topB
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      They translated it into all languages afaik, same here in Germany. No idea why they’d advertise it here but my guess is that they just built one new page layout and it was easier to include the disclaimer in all countries outside CA/US than to build a new layout for people outside that

  • MoriorMorior@alien.topB
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    sacanagem…

  • tameimpalalala@alien.topB
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    Don’t worry, none of us will be able to buy one at retail. The bots will eat. You can pick one up on ebay like the rest of us <3

    • JackSpadesSI@alien.topB
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      They have to know how high the demand would be for it. Why wouldn’t they make enough for, say, all day-1 buyers? Seems dickish to make so few that scalpers’ bots will buy them out in under half a second.

  • Leading_Evening4252@alien.topB
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    What a shame. This one looks amazing and red is my favorite color.

  • Dazzler3623@alien.topB
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    They want you to know what you’re missing out on 🤣 we still haven’t even got OG available locally in Australia

    • kamikazedude@alien.topB
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      My heart goes out for the Aussies.

    • bullet_train10@alien.topB
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      I have to be extra careful with mine, as I got it from a reseller and I know damn well that Valve will probably not accept an RMA from Australia

  • tigamilla@alien.topB
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    Lol, it’s to help eBay scalpers by creating global demand

  • guilhermesbm2@alien.topB
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    In brazil i had to pay almost 50% more for a steam deck 64gb cuz of that.

  • Disshidia@alien.topB
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    Brasil um país da zueira

  • john_username_doe@alien.topB
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    Yeah, same here. Really douche move!

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