Valve officially announced its handheld gaming console only a day ago, but this is obviously enough to spread the word-when the Steam platform began accepting pre-orders today at 1:00 PM Eastern Time, due to an error in the store, the demand of gamers made Steam got stuck after an error. It seems that every step has created another trap: if you are not logged in, perform two-factor authentication, certain logged-in accounts must log in again, credit card checks, and even consider long-established Steam accounts as “too new” to participate. .
Other parts of Steam also became unstable during the squeeze of pre-order interest. The entire Steam store, Steam’s community page, and the age gate that allows you to view adult-level games are not always valid this morning.
The two Verge editors managed to pass the booking process and deposited $5 in their Steam wallet to book the Steam platform. In the end, they were lucky and refreshed. The other passed later in the day.
The reservation system chooses to lock people with new or unused accounts within the first 48 hours, so it is difficult to know whether the problem is caused by the need of a real person who does not let the handheld device go, or whether the robot operator has found a solution. A Verge editor confirmed that his credit card company did not block the transaction, even after receiving the Steam error message that this was the problem.
Later in the day, the person who made the reservation noticed that the Steam store page had been updated. For those I checked, it shows “your expected availability” marked as early 2022. Does this mean Valve expects that the first day’s supply will be extremely limited? As the release date of Steam Dock gets closer, we will learn more about the production plan.
On the customer side, it is as difficult or even more difficult than obtaining recent high-demand products (such as PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X or Switch OLED). The chaos has barely reached the level of the problems we saw when trying to get a new graphics card, but if anyone figured out how to mine cryptocurrency on the Zen 2 chip, this situation might change.
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Post time: Nov-19-2021
