u/FlihpFlorp — FlihpFlorp

I believe in your waiting ability

It’s very nice, basically the decks extra functionality on a gamepad. Gut feeling tells me once the initial wave of frames are out the back order of controllers will get going (my source is it came to me in a ~~dream~~ delusion)

I managed to grab my steam controller on the 4th when it dropped and it got… well I’m not great with time but I think I got it in July.

But anyways I lucked out and when I heard of the machine (and assumed frame) would have the reservation queue INITIALLY I was disliked it. I was thinking even with bots people could grab it, then I saw the amount of scalp listings

And then thinking about it, the window allows people not to plan around the date, I was lucky with the controller that I could use my college WiFi in the middle of lecture. But people at work or otherwise unable to fight in the refreshing gauntlet, or me on frame day sleeping through the announcement by 15 minutes.

Like I’m a little sore because… well idk why… but I think the benifits greatly outweigh the cons compared to the gauntlet of clicks

This kinda turned into a ramble I’m sure there’s an idea in here somewhere

As other have said the pc in terms of connectivity something like a PC doesn’t count as an obstacle so sounding like I won’t have issue with the usb 3.0 on the back

Also TIL, had no idea usb 3 has such higher speed

Oh thats great then. Yeah I think my grandparents had a 2.4 connection so they can get the signal outdoors to their patio, but a 5 for indoors cus im like 90% sure their walls are made of the signal equivalent of a black hole so that makes sense

It was a while ago back in December so I don’t remember where I saw/read it. Like I said in another comment I’m not that tech smart so I dunno what it is/isn’t capable of compared to “normal” (for a lack of a better word) WiFi. But this helps a ton thanks!

i didn't even think of that, but another comment said it shouldn't be an issue, so im not worried. Even if it does cause problems I can try to use that top port, and worse case scenario i can use an extender

Ah yes I was talking about that little USB dongle that ships, probably should clarified that.

But anyways that's great to hear, I'm not super techy so I had like no point of reference of if the PC would be... counted (not the exact word i wanna use) as an obstacle for this.

But that was my big question so I'm glad if only one could be answered it'd be that one, and plus like i said i was kinda expecting a lot of the answers to be "we have no idea"

Personally I don’t think it’s mixed

As someone who (outside of basic game modding) hates to tinker out of fear of breaking something, that second part is aimed at people like me.

In other words I read this is “Hey FlipFlop, you could make all these changes, but let’s leave that to your buddies who actually know electronics and hardware so you don’t end up with $100 steam brand paperweight “

Edit: check out the page and that’s pretty much what was said right after “Any damage you do will not be covered by your warranty” “You might break your controller”

Look at this comment chain is ideas that are good in theory

I’ve had friends who haven’t bought a game in a very long time and still plays games like it’s 2013 (wish I could do that). On the other hand I have a cousin who me and another cousin are tying to get into pc gaming, and thus has a very new account with practically no games, and might continue playing on his Xbox till he can a steam machine or decent pc

I for one would also love to stop scalpers and make a flag of their skin but that’s really hard when protections have to also not alienate any actual customers

Yeah I check 2 min early just so I could refresh the page right at 10, and I was surprised when I saw the orders were open, after spamming the next button on payment, I was able to get mine in at 10

I was able to grab mine, just kept spamming order on the payment screen, and got it eventually. Also looks like it's still in stock so I guess I worried for not much in terms of it going out of stock

I just spammed order on the payment details and managed to get mine

10 more minutes, I wish yall the best of luck

Yeah I’ve also heard preloading the money helps, been holding on to gift card money, forgot to add that to the body, as for exactly the reason you said.

Also forget to put in the body (maybe this is my sign to head to bed) that the deck being out of stock I couldn’t check to see what info is required beyond shipping details, if any

Yep already have some old gift cards loaded to skip that, and the address is cus I’m slow at typing. Need to save time cus I’m guessing they’re gonna be gone quick

Yep the other person was spot on, I’m usually kinda slow on typing so I gotta be ready (and I guess reasoning too)

Oh well that makes me feel much better as I’m still holding on to like $200 from Christmas so that *shouldnt* be an issue, gonna get the preloaded on the 4th so all I have to do is hit refresh, gonna do an internet speed test to see if the college WiFi or my hotspot is faster (prolly my hotspot)

Gotta prep

i know this is gonna get buried under the other 143 comments, but i just need to vent excitment, FUUUUUUUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Im gonna be in class during the launch so i really hope lecture doesnt go over anything important when im ordering it. Oh my god im so excited i can hardly contain it, there are some games I wanted to play only on my deck cus they worked better with controller

I am a little worried that if i dont get it right as it lauches im gonna miss it, but at least my one fear of it being dropped at like 6 am or something has been put to rest