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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do you think it would have gone differently if they had done this?

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  • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Instead of having people frantically trying to beat robo-scalpers through a system (predictably) crashing through surge of demand, people would get into the queue and scalpers would have had no incentive to exploit FOMO that wouldn’t exist. There probably would’ve still been a tech issues at the start, but it would’ve smoothed out on it’s own instead of having people wonder for a week if they’d be able to even submit an order, hoping they don’t miss the next announcement (which I almost did).

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Instead of having people frantically trying to beat robo-scalpers through a system (predictably) crashing through surge of demand to purchase the item, people would be frantically trying to beat robo-scalpers through a system (predictively) crashing through surge of demand to put their name in a queue.

      Have we forgotten that the exact same thing happened with the Steam Deck?

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