It's the same for all western countries too, well, most countries in the world. And guess what old people are voting for at the polls? It isn't sacrificing anything of their own for a brighter future for the youth, that's for sure.
Yeah, keeping it simple is best. Im sure they could use their trust factor system if they really wanted. It just obviously isnt that big of a concern for them, the queue system is to mitigate people having to spam refresh Steam all day, not to stop scalpers.
No, but people who plan to do this, will set themselves up in that way.
As I mentioned, from a quick look on ebay, most of the scalped controllers are shipped from Australia, that tells me it's one person or a group there conducting an operation. They will make sure they have as much chance as they can to buy, which means having old accounts, having them active, making purchases on them etc.
It's not just one person deciding to do it on a whim most of the time, it's completely preplanned.
It's nothing compared to how many are actually sold.
Most are from Australia, so seems its one specific group there doing it. Ignoring them, the majority of listings are the original Steam Controller.
Scalping is always blown out of proportion because people are disappointed and upset they didnt get one. Yes it's an issue, but you most likely missed out because of regular demand.
People have/buy old Steam accounts anyway, it wouldn't really do a whole lot. The best way I can think of giving the stock to legit customers would be giving priority to people who have bought Valve hardware before and have verifiably used it on their account... but any account could be a scalper, anyone could choose to do it whenever.
Whatever system they use, some people will feel it is unfair. A queue system is easiest and most neutral, first come first serve, but still lets you guarantee a chance at some point. It negates scalping a bit, because there's less value to scalp a device people are just queued for.
Honestly though, scalping isn't as big of an issue as people think it is, especially on higher priced devices. Most of the devices you "missed out" on, are just bought by other legitimate customers, the demand is just high for these.
It's bullshit. Children cannot buy an internet connection in the first place. Dont let the state lie to you about age-verification, it's identity verification, they want to know who is doing what, age has nothing to do with it.
Most accounts make a purchase, as its a requirement to unlock most of Steam's features and most accounts are in good standing.
A purchase within the last year would be better, but I think they are not concerned with scalpers. This system makes people have less fear of missing out and gives Valve more numbers of how many they actually need to produce.
Maybe they are planning both, standalone and bundle. I was under the impression from the original announcement coverage that a controller would come with it, pretty sure that was said multiple places.
I honestly think it should be mandatory. With online shopping these days, a customer should be able to see the exact dimensions of a product before they purchase it.
There's lots they could do to make sure they are sold to as many legitimate customers as possible.
The question is, how do you manage it without pissing some people off? I dont think the scalpers are that big of a deal, there's never thousands of them, I bet the percentage of sold controllers going to scalpers is pretty low.
Maybe to the dismay of people in this thread, I went with Proton. It just feels more robust than Tuta and I liked the inclusion of Simple Login for throwaway email addresses.
I only use their email, calendar and VPN services, so I cant comment on the rest, but I'm happy with my subscription.
You mean walking simulator?