Valve has finally opened Steam Machine reservations, and like clockwork, scalpers have already taken to eBay to sell the new tech for more than double its retail price.
The Half-Life and Steam company began allowing eager buyers to sign up for a random chance to buy one of its four Steam Machine reservation options earlier this week. Emails notifying users whether they successfully ended up in the “reservation queue” or the “waitlist” started going out over the last few days.
Stock for the already expensive gaming device, which is priced at $1,049 for its controller-less 512GB model, was always expected to be quite limited, which is why Valve opted for what it called a “less frustrating and more fair” randomized reservation system. Although requirements for the system aimed to get Steam Machines into actual players’ hands with less “friction” than a standard purchase rollout, it looks like plenty of scalpers managed to gain access to the launch, too.
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