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How would Steam selling an AMD graphics card differ from any other retailer selling an AMD graphics card?
by bool3max 5y ago
How would Steam selling an AMD graphics card differ from any other retailer selling an AMD graphics card?
- rowanG077 5y agoOne advantage is that they could verify the customer is an actual active active gamer.
- Jxl180 5y agoHow exactly would they verify it? One can easily be a gamer and a scalper. If by number of games, what’s a hundred games during a steam sale compared to a $2k gpu? If I’m running a mining operation, I can easily pay people in Asia to play video games on my account for dirt cheap to run up the time.
- mrkramer 5y agoCrypto miners are not the problem, the problem is lack of competition in the GPU industry. If there was 10 companies like Nvidia everybody could get his or her GPU easily and at affordable price.
- rowanG077 5y agoAccount older then x years. Modern games purchased that require the GPU you are going to buy. If steam doesn't detect the GPU in your system it will ban your account etc... It's not foolproof of course but this will stop a large swath of scalpers.
- Jxl180 5y agoThis proposal reminds me of that classic copypasta, “please drink your Mountain Dew verification can to play Xbox.”