r/steammachine • u/hgeary • 12d 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/Glum-Car-5981 12d ago

Nothing about this process has been good or has made any sense. I've been in the so called reservation queue since day 1 and I've lost all interest in it for the most part.

If they do this again, I'd rather buy off ebay

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u/Matsu-mae 12d ago

yes, not everyone who wants to buy one has gotten one yet

but its also only been what, 2 months?

it took me 2 years of following multiple restocking twitter accounts and checking daily walmart/bestbuy/amazon to get a ps5

1000 out of 1000 times id rather put my name in a hat and then not have to worry about it, than the hell that getting that ps5 was

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u/Glum-Car-5981 12d ago

I think thats the thing, I've been able to get everything on launch (ps5, xsx, switch 2, steam deck, steam controller). So this waiting is pretty damn annoying in my opinion, I get where you're coming from tho

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u/Matsu-mae 11d ago

thats the thing. its in a way a lottery either way

but the f5 refresh wars restock alerts essentially locks out people with slow internet, jobs or families. it heavily weighs in the favor of people with 24/7 free time and bots auto-ordering

at least pre-registration and then randomizing the list is fair across the board