Valve's Steam Deck Giveaway during The Game Awards is experiencing errors

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On November 30, Valve made a big announcement about one of its latest products, the Steam Deck. Via Twitter, they mentioned that in celebration of The Game Awards, they're giving away one 512GB Steck Deck for every minute that passes from The Game Awards broadcast on December 8.

In celebration of @thegameawards and Steam Deck being in stock, we're giving away one 512GB Steam Deck per minute of the broadcast on Dec 8th!

Learn more and register for the giveaway here: https://t.co/yX0V4D8FGO

(everyone gets a Steam Pal sticker) pic.twitter.com/sszM49VHQw

— Steam Deck (@OnDeck) November 30, 2022

From the time of the announcement to today, December 1, many users have reported what appears to be a bug on the website. On the page, you can read that the eligible countries for this giveaway are Canada, US, UK, and Europe.

But many users who currently reside within these countries get a message which states that their region is not available. The following a post via Twitter given by user StrawDesertHD shares what many people are experiencing when trying to register.

Little confused why this is popping up, only thing I can imagine is that it's the amount of people doing it bugging it out? I'm in the US, so how is this region "not eligible?" pic.twitter.com/FH0tCfUr2L

— StrawDesertHD (@StrawDesertHD) November 30, 2022

Others claim to have issues just as the user ducc states. Making a purchase in Steam within the last year is another eligibility condition for the giveaway that some people actually have done, but the webpage seems to not recognize that as well.

So far, Valve has made an update trying to solve this problem, but the same thing is still happening. At the moment we can wait for the next few days if the website is completely fixed and allows the registration process to continue.

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Meanwhile, everyone has a chance to claim the exclusive Steam Pal sticker. You can also check out the video below for a preview of the Steam Deck in case today is your first hearing of this great device.

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