• sanpo@sopuli.xyz
    51·
    6 days ago

    I’m so happy for everyone else in these comments saying they got on the reservation list.

  • MolochAlter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    I was literally sitting at a table with my only other friend who ordered one when the mail got sent, she got in and I didn’t.

    Salty, to say the least.

  • Deacon@lemmy.world
    16·
    7 days ago

    That reminded me to check my email and I’m in queue for the 1Tb. I think this might rate my first woot in over a decade.

    Woot!

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        Yeah there’s a reservation queue (you’ll get it soon) and a waitlist (not so soon).

      • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        There are several reservation queues:

        • 256 GB North America
        • 256 GB United Kingdom/European Union
        • 256 GB Australia
        • 1TB North America
        • 1TB United Kingdom/European Union
        • 1TB Australia
  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    I got in the queue. I’m sure there will be a lot of cancelations though. A lot of people probably signed up because it was free, and we’re still deciding if they wanted to purchase. In three days I bet you get your chance.

    Out of curiosity, which version did you sign up for? I signed up for the cheaper one. I wonder if the more expensive one is more limited?

    • hikaru755@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 days ago

      I signed up for the smaller version as well. Judging from the tracker website, you indeed had a slightly better change for that one than for the 1 TB:

      Although that doesn’t tell us anything about how limited it was, since it also depends on how many ordered that version in the first place

  • Johanno@feddit.org
    8·
    6 days ago

    Valve didn’t want my money too.

    They took someone else instead.

    I am disappointed and shocked that Gabe chose someone else!

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 days ago

    Damn, that email meant I missed the draw?

    I’ve missed every steam lottery draw and this one sucks the most. 50% odds, too, apparently.

  • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    6 days ago

    I fully expected to be waiting till spring. Got reservation, to my surprise. I’ve got 1500€ set aside for it since January.

    1TB, EU

  • thzihdd@feddit.org
    3·
    6 days ago

    Just ordered yesterday evening. Expected more waiting to be honest.

    Fingers crossed for all of you.

    • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
      2·
      4 days ago

      oh, so you were able to order one already? I’m still waiting for my turn and have some discounted VR games in my cart. 😅

      • thzihdd@feddit.org
        1·
        4 days ago

        Yes, got the reservation email 17.09 after joining on 16.09. Order was open one day later on 18.09.

        Seems, I was very lucky again. 😇

        When the Steam Controller came out I just ordered it before there were any queues. When I ordered the 1TB Steam Deck it was soon after out of stock…

  • Million@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    6 days ago

    What you guys planning on doing with a steam frame?

    I have used vr for like 3 games and then racing games. But thats about it.

    Really difficult to justify 1k+ for a device that to me feels like a novelty outside racing games.

    • oyo@lemmy.zip
      3·
      5 days ago

      I got an index when Alyx came out, and zero interesting games have come out since.

    • python@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      Minecraft!! I already have hundreds of hours in just Vivecraft with no extra Mods, but I’ve been really getting into the whole of Create Mod (with Aeronautics and Coasters Simulated) recently and those would be amazing in VR. My Quest 1 setup is really starting to struggle though, so I’m putting off a full Create + VR playthrough for the frame.

      I also kinda want to get into VR Chat, I think. Just to try that whole “socializing” thing, see what the fuss is about.

      Other than that, I’m fine with having a novelty device. I used to really like VR for studying since it forced my Adhd ass to keep the studying material in my field of view. But now I’m done with my education (and on some proper medication) so it’s not much of a use case anymore.

      • FatVegan@leminal.space
        3·
        6 days ago

        I really kinda love vr. I had a dev kit back in tge day and bought tge vive when it came out. Things that are pretty outdated right now i assume. I can’t stress enough how much i love the idea of vr and whatever, but for some reason i get sweaty as hell, i kinda get dizzy, depending on the game. But more than anything else, for some reason it scares the piss oht of me, and i don’t know why. Scary Movies and video games do nothing for me. With vr it’s embarrassing. The best game i played was half life and minecraft (a really early build) i ripped my headset of playing half life and i pushed further until the point where you first encounter these big walkers and i just couldn’t. It’s weird, and i don’t know if that is something i would ever get used to.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      I had an original Vive, and I enjoyed it. There’s not too many exclusive VR games, but there are other experiences. For example, 3D movies are viewable without the shitty experience that is a 3D TV. There are also a lot of traditional games that have good VR experiences. Also, obviously, porn.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      I used my Oculus CV1 a fair bit before I had to stow my PC for a while. Then of course meta made it so you needed to get a special secret user account on a new service which I could never get to validate, and their stuff didn’t work in Linux anyway, so …

      But shooting games, space sims… Various things.

    • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      7 days ago

      The emails are sent out in batches (according to someone in this thread, it does make sense though). It means the email batch you’re in wasn’t sent yet, so you still have to wait for the email. I also haven’t gotten an email yet.

        • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          7 days ago

          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”

          • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            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.

            • hikaru755@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              6 days 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

            • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 days 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.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          7 days 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.

    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
      2·
      7 days ago

      It means you died. Please give my condolences to your friends and family. If you do get an email that your reservation was approved, please forward it along to me for further inspection.

  • BigPotato@lemmy.world
    71·
    7 days ago

    I own three Steam Decks and my account was made when Half Life 2 released. I have been “past” the wait-list on both the Machine and the Frame.

    Like, oh well, but still.

    • 2fm@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      21 years, active, good standing. Also waitlisted, rather hear that than nothing whatsoever, though.