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[Frame] Landed on the waitlist, two friends as well (Europe) (europe.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Man that's rougher than I expected. 0/3, either we got really unlucky or supply vs. demand is way out of whack :(

Edit: Here's a website that's giving some rough estimates! https://steamframeout.com/

Edit 2: And this one: https://steamhardware.io/tracker/steam-frame/

Email from Valve: You are on the waitlist for Steam Frame 256GB Kit. When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of Steam Frames currently available for reservation. As we work our way through the reservation queue, some customers may cancel their reservations. If that happens, you may be moved into the reservation queue, and you'll be notified via email that you have a reservation after all.
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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That seems...not good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Not necessarily, people seem to be getting a mix of wins and loses all day long.

    I doubt it's just "send all the wins, then all the loses"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    I mean none of this makes much sense to me. I dunno why they don't just send them all at once...but it seems like sooner would be better than later.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Email systems have a tendency to flag mass mails as spam. By sending them in batches, it stops other email systems panicking as much.

    It also lets a human check over things, and limit the effects of a screwup.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    That's pretty standard to be honest. Every individual email takes some time to send since you need to communicate to external servers. Even if you don't deliberately group them into batches for better monitoring and load spreading, that's just gonna take a while to churn through

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Depends on how they're deciding ordering. It could be that earlier waitlist emails mean higher on the list. But it could also be a different system.

    It could also be when you put in to the raffle, you're in line. Then on raffle close time, they start at the beginning of the line and rng you a number between 1 and the number of people in line, setting your order, and if you get a number within however many units they have, you win a reservation. With the waves of emails just being them going through chunks of people, eliminating undesirables and cheaters and bots and stuff.

    Like the first 10 people who put in initially could all get the highest (worst) numbered slots in the order. And if you haven't gotten an email at all yet, you could still rng slot #1, assuming it's available.

    It could also just be a massive shuffle at all once and them just vetting the accounts.

    I'm really curious to how they're actually doing it. It could absolutely be more robust, and it's exciting to imagine them really getting carried away with the method. Like total rng ordering with tie breaking or something silly. Or like a recursive iterative sort for no reason. These raffles ran by scientists can get crazy nerdy quickly. Maybe they'll talk about it and have done something like use hl2 to order stuff somehow.

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