Post #4205479

Have to admit... I do not understand why Valve are running the #steammachine hardware sales the way they are. It makes little sense. I'm currently on a "waitlist" ... meaning they have allocated me a device from the first (only?) batch of production and I just need to wait for an e-mail from them to be able to confirm that I want it and I will pay for it. I must do so within three days of receiving the email, or they will sell 'my' device to someone else. But why? Why not send me a mail now, take my payment and then tell me that it will ship in August, or September? Or whenever. Why do I need to wait for the e-mail? I have no idea when that mail will arrive, and as folks on the Steam forums have said, what if I'm away on holiday? What if I have no cell coverage? Perhaps I'm scheduled for surgery and need to spend a couple of days in hospital? Perhaps I just don't like checking e-mail as these days it feels like work trying to avoid the scammers and hard-sell mails from everyone you've ever bought something from ("Please leave a review" mails from companies that you interacted with via a webpage for six seconds can get in the sea). So come on Valve, I'm in. I'm sold. I want one and I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford one, I have a need for a device in my living room so I can get out of the home-office that I spend 9 hours a day working in. Just sell me the damn thing already.