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9 hours agoSure, you could just buy a 1 cent game… However the date is in the past. So a scalper would have needed to set up a lot of accounts in advance even before the controller itself was released, and then have purchased something on all those accounts… To me this seems like a very reasonable way to distinguish legitimate players from the scalpers.
If you know anything about production pipelines, you also know that there’s zero chance that the production pipeline can respond in any way to the amount of reservations… Every controller that gets produced in at least the next year has already been ordered by Valve… Any scaling of the production pipeline in response to reservations won’t happen for a very long time.