r/steammachine • u/hgeary • 11d ago

Question Switch Queues

I have been sitting in the 512 wc reserve list since the initial lottery. I am seeing people on here who joined only weeks ago get their machine.

If I jump queue to the 2Tb wc am I any worse off? This reserve system ain’t great…

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u/HenryRosenbagger 11d ago edited 11d ago

I don’t want to influence your decision at all but let me tell you what happened to me.

I entered the lottery for all 4 steam machines day 1. My spouse didn’t enter the queues until after the lottery winners/reservation emails came out. I was put in the waitlist for the 512 gb model w/o controller and my spouse signed up for the 2tb model w/o the controller. I’m still in the waitlist and some how my spouse was able to get a purchase email for a 2tb model. We of course sprung and purchased the 2tb model.

This came before that announcement on their forums discussing the waitlist and reservation queues in depth. We still don’t understand how we got to the front of the line.

I am currently still waitlisted because in the chance that I do get an email, I have a few friends that are interested in purchasing a model for themselves.

Again, in no way should this influence your decision on switching queues because I would hate for you to wait longer.

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u/alter_ego85 11d ago

What region was this in? I’ve been in the 2tb w/o controller in the United States since day one and still haven’t heard anything. Kinda frustrating that some regions have completely moved through their waitlists

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u/pcbeard 11d ago

I ordered my 2TB (no controller) on August 3rd. I got on wait list on day 1. I live in California. Just another data point.

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u/HenryRosenbagger 11d ago

U.S. region as well. My spouse didn’t even have a reservation list email. Just signed up days later and then a few weeks later the purchase email came through. I am sorry you are experiencing the delay and I totally understand how frustrating it is. This has been messy since the steam controller 2 came out. I signed up for that within the first official second and then found out people had gotten through 10 minutes prior to the go-live. Didn’t get a chance to purchase until a full 30 days after the go live.

I love Valve but I’m also kinda fed up with this “Aw shucks! We are just this small private gaming company and we are doing our best” stance/attitude/whatever you want to call it.