Purchasing steam deck was an experience I would like to forget. But now shipping is equally messed up.
I mean delivery estimate of 3-5 days is bad to start from. I live in the UK and maybe Amazon spoiled me a bit but these days I expect things to get posted next day for delivery a day after. Especially expensive items.
Steam delivery updates are borderline useless. My current status is “shipped” since Tuesday…it’s 5th working day today. So they failed even on their own bloated estimate. Looking at Reddit it seems there are many others in a similar situation.
If it was a random guy from eBay sending a deck somewhere from the middle of nowhere I would understand…but ffs this is a multimillion dollars corporation with almost unlimited resources that has done similar things in the past.
Steam get your act together! Reputation is not easy to fix.
You’re being downvoted a lot so I wanted to let you know that I agree.
The deck is for sale in the UK, so it’s not out of the question to expect Valve to have stock in the UK, ready for shipping on release day. Same goes for another high demand areas. Valve is just cutting corners by not having more localised distribution.
Thanks. Good to know there are people out there with some common sense not blinded by the corpo brainwash
Even if they distributed all Europe from NL I would expect to deliver within days if they planned properly