Verified Actual Gamer Program Information [See Best Answer / 2021-10-08 update]

[xfridgewizardx]

3 minutes ago, kelly.clubb said:

Aww, I was somewhat hoping this would be a 1C1S type program that we can get in a queue.  I can defiantly prove I'm a gamer via the computer and my steam profile and YouTube channels I'm part of. Would love to have a chance to get a card if that ever happens again.

same here!!!!!!  I have a GTX 1080 8 GB and would love to upgrade!  I'd be willing to put mine back in the pool for others to buy at msrp!

[Junction Runner]

Holy shit. He's maybe* going to buy scalper cards and put them on the vag program. 

That's a baller ass move, but also really fuck scalpers, I think I'd rather them sit with the stock until it devalues, as unlikely that is.

[Andriko]

So, in today's WAN Show, Linus talked about suppliers not receiving all the promised stock from the manufacturer, and that the V.A.G program would guarantee to provide all stock to V.A.G. However on an earlier stream Linus also mentioned that the middleman "misplaced" some of the gpus. Seems like the problem is with the contracted delivery method?

[Nexxus]

34 minutes ago, Dumb_Ass said:

P.S. Scalping is illegal in Canada

Citation needed*

[Lomac]

4 minutes ago, Nexxus said:

Citation needed*

It's not illegal in Canada.  There are some new(ish) laws surrounding ticket reselling but that's about it.

[Jontario]

19 minutes ago, xfridgewizardx said:

same here!!!!!!  I have a GTX 1080 8 GB and would love to upgrade!  I'd be willing to put mine back in the pool for others to buy at msrp!

You just gotta watch LTT videos until they drop a link or hint in the video. I'm not sure if they verify you're a gamer after purchase before shipping or before though that's what I'm trying to find out.

[Nexxus]

3 minutes ago, Lomac said:

It's not illegal in Canada.  There are some new(ish) laws surrounding ticket reselling but that's about it.

Yeah thats why I said that, I knew it wasnt lol.

[mekalus]

I am guessing I missed the first drop. Kind of bummed as I watch LTT media channels all the time and never saw any announcement it was live. How long was the info in the video before it was pulled?

[psyikk]

21 minutes ago, Jontario said:

You just gotta watch LTT videos until they drop a link or hint in the video. I'm not sure if they verify you're a gamer after purchase before shipping or before though that's what I'm trying to find out.

This is what happened with the previous drop, a few days ago? Unsure on exactly when it happened but it wasn't long ago. The notification was in the middle of a video so you'll want to be subbed to the channel and check videos as soon as the drop.

 

In terms of HOW it works, my understanding is that there is a small, easy quiz to take you to the cart section, but they still go quite fast.

[Dumb_Ass]

37 minutes ago, Nexxus said:

Citation needed*

 

33 minutes ago, Lomac said:

It's not illegal in Canada.  There are some new(ish) laws surrounding ticket reselling but that's about it.

 

29 minutes ago, Nexxus said:

Yeah thats why I said that, I knew it wasnt lol.

*I reject your reality and substitute my own.

 

And yes guys u right, I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be nice if it was not only on tickets.

[Exarkun631]

Can someone please link me to where I can sign up for this???  I can't for the life of me figure out where to go to sign up for the Verified Actual Gamer Program!

[Nantangitan]

46 minutes ago, mekalus said:

I am guessing I missed the first drop. Kind of bummed as I watch LTT media channels all the time and never saw any announcement it was live. How long was the info in the video before it was pulled?

Much the same for me I guess. The videos go up early in the morning in Australia, around 4:40am.

On one hand I get wanting only the absolutely dedicated viewers to be able to get the cards. But also massive RIP anyone in Australia who has any form of job or goes to school.

 

Here's hoping a drop happens during a WAN show or something in future.

[PhD_Tap]

During the WAN show Linus brought up a few things. 

1) I personally (and apparently the majority of people) do NOT want to see the scalpers get paid. 
Linus said we need to contact the manufactures saying 

 "You got to let GPU makers know. You got let guys like Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI let these guys know. Hey we want to see you guys support the V.A.G program because we trust LinusTechTips to actually deliver these things to the hands of actual gamers". 

 

I propose we contact every GPU manufacture that we can and send them almost word-for-word what he said.

2) The issue of making money through the V.A.G. came up. Honestly, I don't think any of us care. Make your money. We'd rather see you get filthy rich than the scalpers get a dime.

 

3) The video idea. I think it would be great if you perhaps did a decathlon of gaming. 1st round is some part of building a PC. 2nd round is an FPS game. 3rd round is trivia about LMG and 4th is a racing game. 
Best time get's the GPU for a discounted price. (everyone else invited and shows competence get's to buy at full price or appropriate discount for their placing in the competition. 

[Junction Runner]

26 minutes ago, Nantangitan said:

Much the same for me I guess. The videos go up early in the morning in Australia, around 4:40am.

On one hand I get wanting only the absolutely dedicated viewers to be able to get the cards. But also massive RIP anyone in Australia who has any form of job or goes to school.

 

Here's hoping a drop happens during a WAN show or something in future.

He basically just said on the wan show, with a wonderful visual elbow to the camera's side, that some will happen on videos posted at other times.

[Exarkun631]

Sorry but I just don't understand LMG's thinking here. Why not limit the vast majority of Verified Actual Gamer program drops to Forum Members who's account was (at a minimum), created sometime before the program announcement, paid subscribers & Floatplane subs. Then, have just one or two drops done via this scheme. This "have to watch every video the minute they launch roulette" is at best wildly unfair or at worst just shy of unethical. I mean really... people work / go to school / have real world obligations that preclude that level of attention. I understand LMG wants/needs to make bank on the views;, (this is proper & just) but please reconsider how you're doing this. I'd really like the opportunity to buy a new card to replace my aging GTX1070 at a fair price.

[CS325]

It happened and its gone already by the time I can even get on a computer and I never even knew. So as someone who has to work 3rd Shift, I guess eff me huh? So just like every other storefront then...cool....

 

I assumed this would be: Put name on list -> Verify gamer cred -> Get one-off link to buy card. Not this "Ok, go" mad rush that every one else does. Good luck to everyone else, but I guess I'm not gamer enough for this.

[Frodo Baggins]

I didn't even know I missed it. I'm in Australia so I suspect I was asleep when the original video was posted to Youtube, but as you took the contest/VGP piece out of the video after I had no idea I had missed it. I have signed up to this forum now so at least I can tell I missed it a bit quicker than 3 days later... Can anyone tell me what the price was roughly for an AIB 6800 XT?

 

Also, during the WAN show Linus mentioned something about VR as a test to see if we are gamers, but I don't own any VR gear so I hope that doesn't just disqualify me outright. I'm not interested in VR.

[drop0ne]

I want in please!!!!  

[mekalus]

Im not upset just disappointed and very curious how long it was before they ran out of stock on this drop. Was it an hour? Several? Given the verification process I think it is safe to assume it wasn't minutes. They didn't give any details during the WAN show about the length of time it took. I hope I am able to stay on top of the videos for the next go around. 

[gimple]

On 3/20/2021 at 7:44 AM, LogicalDrm said:

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Milk it? Like gain something from failed experiment? Linus has paid for the cards already. He won't gain anything by keeping them for weeks to months. He gains for successful launch of the program, both getting his money back and getting positive publicity for it. Failing to launch program after weeks isn't good for him, nor sending the stuff back. So please explain what you mean by "milking".

 

Seriously, what kind of BS gross attitude is this? Like, you would think that people would be grateful for the LTT crew doing such a nice thing for everyone like this.  They have no obligations to us whatsoever, and no one else is doing anything remotely as cool as they are.  I'm sure that the demand is absolutely MASSIVE considering how big the channel has become just in the last year or so, I've watched as the traffic here/discord, even the concurrent live viewership on a random "hey it's Linus and I'm gonna build 8 computers back to back on stream" stream or the WAN show is regularly a quite massive amount of people any time of day (not to mention how difficult it is even for those of us who have been actively looking and subscribing to twitter alert accounts/youtube streams of automated stock checking alerts.)  I just finished watching the most recent WAN show and I'm kind of shocked that people had a problem with liberating GPUs from the hands of scalpers and into the homes of gamers.  Like, I totally understand and mostly agree with the whole 'not supporting scalpers' thing but let's be realistic here, if they already are circulating out there and the only people buying them are are both super rich+lucky.  Something of which I am neither. 

I would love to be able to get a chance even at buying ANY card, myself.  I am back to using a 5-6 yr old macbook that I spilled a sprite/orange soda mix on the keyboard/mouse and it somehow still works despite the keys being kinda sticky - most of my possessions were burgled when someone broke into my car while preparing to move from my apartment...in broad daylight at 6:30 am no less, hooray.

[Spotty]

6 minutes ago, mekalus said:

Im not upset just disappointed and very curious how long it was before they ran out of stock on this drop. Was it an hour? Several? Given the verification process I think it is safe to assume it wasn't minutes. They didn't give any details during the WAN show about the length of time it took. I hope I am able to stay on top of the videos for the next go around. 

Luke posted the details earlier in this thread.

It took 29 minutes between the video going live and the last graphics card (of 100?) being sold.

 

On 3/24/2021 at 6:02 AM, Slick said:

March 23, 2021 at 11:09 - Last Order 
March 23, 2021 at 10:45 - First Order 
March 23, 2021 at 10:40 - Video Live

Stats for nerds ^_^ 

 

[LogicalDrm]

6 hours ago, Exarkun631 said:

Can someone please link me to where I can sign up for this???  I can't for the life of me figure out where to go to sign up for the Verified Actual Gamer Program!

2 hours ago, drop0ne said:

I want in please!!!!  

Any information will be given in LTT video. Any additional BTS info will be given in WAN Shows. Also, both Linus and Luke have replied to this thread. This is not something where you sign up, its something where you are dedicated and get rewarded for dedication.

 

4 hours ago, CS325 said:

I assumed this would be: Put name on list -> Verify gamer cred -> Get one-off link to buy card. Not this "Ok, go" mad rush that every one else does. Good luck to everyone else, but I guess I'm not gamer enough for this.

Names on a list, get checkmarked, then what? The number of willing buyers would outnumber number of items on sale. There would still need to be something to decide who gets right to buy. Anything involving random draw where only some entries win is called raffle and is under gambling laws. If there's entry fee to raffle, its directly lottery/gambling and is even tighter controlled by laws. It would also exclude some number of regions which are currently allowed.

 

2 hours ago, Frodo Baggins said:

Can anyone tell me what the price was roughly for an AIB 6800 XT?

This drop was for Nvidia 3xxx series. The screenshots with pricing can be found in this thread (pages 14-18 are about this drop).

[gloop]

7 hours ago, Dumb_Ass said:

 

 

*I reject your reality and substitute my own.

 

And yes guys u right, I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be nice if it was not only on tickets.

I personally have no issue with scalpers. They’re just taking advantage of the current state of the market for their own profit. 

[LogicalDrm]

8 hours ago, ClintyisMinty said:

New account here sorry if I mess up in some way but I think it would be cool if you guys made this a big event like the rig reboot where you and the contender pick a game and vs each other and for play and then have a mystery round or somthing 

Merged with megathread. Linus did reply to this earlier in the threads:

 

8 hours ago, progamer21 said:

I am a gamer with no gpu and I want to get 30 series but am not clear how and when the Verified actual gamer program gpu drops happen. I would like to know plz tell me.

Merged to megathread. First drop was on Wednesdays video. Timing for next is unknown, but most likely next week starting from Monday.

 

8 hours ago, Andriko said:

So, in today's WAN Show, Linus talked about suppliers not receiving all the promised stock from the manufacturer, and that the V.A.G program would guarantee to provide all stock to V.A.G. However on an earlier stream Linus also mentioned that the middleman "misplaced" some of the gpus. Seems like the problem is with the contracted delivery method?

Merged to megathread.

 

6 hours ago, PhD_Tap said:

During the WAN show Linus brought up a few things. 

1) I personally (and apparently the majority of people) do NOT want to see the scalpers get paid. 
Linus said we need to contact the manufactures saying 

 "You got to let GPU makers know. You got let guys like Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte and MSI let these guys know. Hey we want to see you guys support the V.A.G program because we trust LinusTechTips to actually deliver these things to the hands of actual gamers". 

 

I propose we contact every GPU manufacture that we can and send them almost word-for-word what he said.

2) The issue of making money through the V.A.G. came up. Honestly, I don't think any of us care. Make your money. We'd rather see you get filthy rich than the scalpers get a dime.

 

3) The video idea. I think it would be great if you perhaps did a decathlon of gaming. 1st round is some part of building a PC. 2nd round is an FPS game. 3rd round is trivia about LMG and 4th is a racing game. 
Best time get's the GPU for a discounted price. (everyone else invited and shows competence get's to buy at full price or appropriate discount for their placing in the competition. 

Merged to megathread.

 

6 hours ago, Exarkun631 said:

Sorry but I just don't understand LMG's thinking here. Why not limit the vast majority of Verified Actual Gamer program drops to Forum Members who's account was (at a minimum), created sometime before the program announcement, paid subscribers & Floatplane subs. Then, have just one or two drops done via this scheme. This "have to watch every video the minute they launch roulette" is at best wildly unfair or at worst just shy of unethical. I mean really... people work / go to school / have real world obligations that preclude that level of attention. I understand LMG wants/needs to make bank on the views;, (this is proper & just) but please reconsider how you're doing this. I'd really like the opportunity to buy a new card to replace my aging GTX1070 at a fair price.

You are saying they should make paid gambling instead of free-for-all? Sorry, but you need to think and read before you post.

 

Why not make it pay-to-get-chance-of-winning? Because thats gambling and under strict laws. They would need permit for running such, and it would exclude number of regions where you need local permits to run any gambling.

 

Why not make it raffle? Where large number of people gets verified and after that get chance to get to buy one? Again, this is raffle and requires permit + would exclude some regions.

 

Why not make it forums only? Because not all LTT fans use forums. Just this even has made some 10+ new members to join. They have made "Forums Only" once, during the move from house studio to current HQ. Also, just being on forums for long time doesn't make one a Verified Actual Gamer. It also wouldn't really fix the issues, if you then would require to run raffle.

 

So in conclusion. The current thing can be seen unfair for certain groups. But as it has been noted in the thread, its really hard to make anything with limited stock fair to everyone wanting one. There's always someone thinking some part was unfair towards them because they didn't get one. Unethical? How? You need to explain what part of this is "unethical".

Edited March 27, 2021 by LogicalDrm

[jmillertime89]

Just watched someone's recording of them taking the quiz and jesus christ that was way harder than I expected. Does anyone know how many you actually had to get right in order to be validated? 

I know in yesterday's WAN show they said it may not be a quiz next time, but just asking so I have some idea of how difficult this is going to be in general.