Europeans are that old, you know

That would mean a certain 3.0 for some of their games… Will never happen

Three letters which give the explanation: IGN…

Longer word or translation for those letters. Corporate whores!

Actually the LE was not available outside of the US and Canada… Since it is mostly just a shell swap away, no real loss!

Actually all the devices were temporarily sold out, why that is, either a glitch in the system, or they basically periodically threw orders out which did mass ordering of devices instead of blocking it upfront.

Either way good to see that the scalpers get shafted!

One lesson I last learned last time if you are in for a Valve sales rush, you need patience and good nerves, they really play every unknown trick in the book to get bots of their heels worked out this time as well, by simply retrying until it worked. Also paypal is the worst paying system for such a case, they seemed to have limited their transactions because valve gave them the “overload”, next time I will know that and pay directly via CC upfront instead of trying to pay over paypal!

There are always people with more money than brain just to pose they are better than others, the scalpers feed on those people!

Heck the entire TikTok System relies on narcissists trying to pose and that works well for them.

haha yes… great job, the scalper edition ran out of stock and then instantly 3 minutes later was back in… guess those guys who have it now are desparate to recoup their costs!

It was a worse mess this time, two things I noticed

a) Credit card ordering worked better than trying to pay over Paypal, paypal seemed to have blocked steam due to too many transactions

b) The devices ran out of stock but 5 minutes later were in stock again

One possible explanation for b was, that scaler scripts tried to get tons of steam decks on single accounts (which was possible but then cleared out)

and a clearing script basically removed those devices again from those accounts and put them back into the queue.

I know one guy who had two different devices in his account and then got cleared automatically to the last device bought.

Either way after having resolved the initial rush even the special edition seemed to have been in stock well enough, this basically means scalpers might need good luck to even recoup their costs, not that i mind, I just need find some artificial tears!

Either way the whole thing was a mess and lots of people got pretty nervous because they thought that scalpers were gobbling everything up and they might have to wait for a year to get theirs!

I was also pretty nervous because of that reason because I had my SD from minute zero in my shopping cart, but could not check out and then when I finally got through the payment it said it was already out of stock. Glad that I retried!

Bad luck, mine was delivered by a magical fairy on a pink unicorn 5 seconds after ordering, in a pink package and a scent of flowers!

Ever Scalper in the world rejoices at a deck which has some transparent plastic you can retrofit…

Guess I am lucky never had any issues with game streaming.