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Valve might send Steam Deck purchase emails twice a week

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Keep an even closer eye on your inbox, as Valve has announced that we might see reservation emails for the Steam Deck go out twice a week sometimes now.

Each Monday is the usual day for new emails to go out, so people sitting waiting can finally put their Steam Deck order through. That might change some weeks, as Valve explained on Twitter today:

Welcome to Q2! We've just sent out the first set of order emails to Q2 reservers (in order of reservation time). Starting today we're ramping up Steam Deck shipments, and will be sending more order availability emails every week. Sometimes even twice a week!

Update: in a reply to someone it was clarified as Monday and Thursday.

Since people were getting confused somehow on what a quarter is during a year, Valve also a little while ago updated the Steam Deck page to show the months in brackets for when you can expect an email to come through. A refresher as apparently some people need it:

  • January, February, and March (Q1)
  • April, May, and June (Q2)
  • July, August, and September (Q3)
  • October, November, and December (Q4)

Really good to know Valve are able to ramp up production now, as they did say previously they were expecting hundreds of thousands from this month onwards.

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damarrin Apr 5, 2022
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The REAL question here is should we (as a species) cater to the least knowledgeable individuals or work to increase general knowledge? The former certainly makes it easier to govern.
Bogomips Apr 5, 2022
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?

I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.

Nope, trimester means three months and a year is composed of 12 months. A quarter (1/4) means one of something divided by four (a year, a cake, money).


Last edited by Bogomips on 5 April 2022 at 10:28 am UTC
micha Apr 5, 2022
I want to buy, well at least make a reservation for, a second Steam Deck. But so far still only one per Steam account allowed.
Purple Library Guy Apr 5, 2022
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Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?

I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.
My university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.
Eike Apr 5, 2022
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Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: soulsource
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?

I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.
My university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.

I looked it up at several places, most agree on the "three months" as well as the latin origin.

The German dictionary Duden mentions both though, three months as well as a third of a school/university year.

I wonder if the later is a missconception maybe stemming from a pregnancy, where the term seems to be used often (at least here), and the duration of three months coincides with a third of the full duration.

And a question, how long does your trimesters take?
*edit* Another find, a trimester at university is supposed to be three months, and you have three of them in the year: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimester_(Studium)


Last edited by Eike on 5 April 2022 at 2:55 pm UTC
mahagr Apr 6, 2022
If someone is interested where the 64GB queue in EU is at, my order was made next day, 17:35 EEST (got email yesterday).
At the same time 256GB order made 45 minutes since launch is still MIA.


Last edited by mahagr on 6 April 2022 at 6:18 am UTC
soulsource Apr 6, 2022
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: soulsource
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?

I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…
Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.
I had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.
My university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.

Universities usually have several months wihtout teaching activies. I can only guess, but it doesn't sound too far fetched that historically it was 3*3 months teaching, and 3 months not.
(Where I studied we had no teaching activities in February, July, August and September, so a third of the rest would be less than 3 months...)
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