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It's not worse than a traditional launch, but it's also not much better. Make 1,000 Steam accounts, which are entirely free, and you get 1,000 times more chance
by iLoveOncall 4mo ago
It's not worse than a traditional launch, but it's also not much better. Make 1,000 Steam accounts, which are entirely free, and you get 1,000 times more chances of getting one than others.
To be fair I don't think they'll be scalped a lot because the price isn't attractive already and alternatives are plenty.
- Ekaros 4mo ago>You must have made a purchase on Steam prior to April 27th 2026. >Limit one signup per household. We will use payment method, shipping address, and other information to eliminate multiple entries. Seems like they have chosen some reasonable options here. 2 months ago having purchase and trying to detect households. Likely also including phone number, Steam Guard client and family sharing.
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- xinayder 4mo agoSteam accounts newer than April do not qualify, plus I think you need to have spent at least $5 to qualify for the reservation queue (i.e. not community limited)
- flutas 4mo agoThe account has to have bought something on steam before April 27th. They also are verifying addresses via the accounts. > Are there any criteria for signing up? > Customers must meet the following criteria to be able to sign up: > You must have a Steam account in good standing. > You must have made a purchase on Steam prior to April 27th 2026. > Limit one signup per household. We will use payment method, shipping address, and other information to eliminate multiple entries.
- charcircuit 4mo agoThe price of a Steam account is going to be less than the profit of ordering an additional Steam Machine by a lot.
- kqr 4mo agoBut it's not an additional Steam Machine, it's a potential additional Steam Machine. In expectation, I'm sure it's more like 1/1000th of a Steam Machine.
- bspammer 4mo agoOk but organizing a separate address for each delivery is going to be a pain
- brokencode 4mo agoHow are people going to get a Steam account with a purchase from before April 27th though? I guess you could find somebody online and buy their account, but surely this would be a slow and unreliable process.
- boofus 4mo agosadly there's sites dedicated to buying accounts of all sorts (reddit, x, steam, etc...) that use an escrow-type system so both parties have little risk It's basically super easy and trivial to buy verified accounts for many many platforms
- inigyou 4mo agoHow can I sell my old accounts?
- fragmede 4mo agoThe trouble is getting caught, and you don't list contact info on your HN profile so any potential buyers would have to leave their email address here and tell you to email them and the people running. Steve are an idiot so any email address that appears there is gonna get blacklisted different connected to a Steam account so you might want to list your email address well throwaway that's not attached to your Steam account account. You might want to list that in your profile. Just saying. I already have a Steam account.
- garrettjoecox 4mo agoDo you really think a fresh steam account will have equal footing? I'd be surprised if that was the case. Even Nintendo has been setting fairly strict requirements to pre-order some of their products, like requiring 50 hours of playtime on the original switch to pre-order the Switch 2