If you haven’t been paying attention, or if you missed our recent article on the Steam Machine pricing, Valve’s small form factor PC is now in the hands of outlets and content creators. But for people like you and me, we’ll have to actually pay for it, and sadly, that process is a bit more complicated than it probably needed to be.
Why? Well, I’ll explain.
Currently, you can head over to Steam and purchase, er, I mean, join a waitlist for the Steam Machine. However, it seems Valve still hasn’t learned its lesson and is making things harder than they should be for people who want to buy one. Instead of simply letting people place an order, Valve has decided to put everyone who wants a Steam Machine into a one-time randomized reservation process.
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