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(im)patiently waiting

Hopefully the same limitation that applied to Steam Decks can apply to all hardware in the future for their initial releases.

When you get stock in order, can you please start selling them in Norway as well?

This is what it will be like for every piece of hardware you sell imo

When can we expect new batch?

Will it become available in Norway in the future?

However many you think you need, just triple it. Everyone and their mother wants these controllers

Please do preorders!

fair enough lmao i say before killing them we should strip them naked and tie them to trees in public, especially during hornet season

Steam Frame next boys, release the kraken!

No offense intended, but if Steam suddenly canceled my order, I would show up at Gabe Newell’s house.

Maybe cancel all orders of scalpers who bought multiple orders of two each (I've heard that was the shopping cart limit), but leave my (successful) order of one controller alone, thanks. In the meantime people should be able to get on a reservation list.

how many of them went to scalpers with 0 hours played on their profile lol

I honestly want to preorder. I loved the original controller, I have 4 of them! Something I will miss as no one has mentioned, is the startup sound via the vibration motors, that was just a cool thing but if I could request a feature in future firmware, add it back, can be just disabled by default.

Send an invite to everyone who still has it in their wishlist so that we can all get at least one controller, please! This was a hot mess, I spent an hour at my pc trying to place an order only to be disappointed.

So thankful I got my order in and sorry for anyone who didn't have the same luck. Scalpers are absolute vermin.

I'll be waiting with bated breath :)

Personally, I'd like a dedicated controller for Steam that has native gyro support so I can continue my Half Life 2 gyro playthrough. I don't need it badly enough to buy a scalped one, but would love to see third party seller a have this on their shelf at MSRP.

It's not worth paying a scalper for - you can buy it later at restock. Anyone who owns a Steam Deck will tell you that the configurability and flexibility of this controller is unbeatable. For me, FFXIV in controller mode but with a touch pad mouse is insanely useful. This controller can do that.

just steam input, which any steam deck owner came to appreciate, but i think is that every youtuber has been releasing videos about it from LTT, IGN, Gamespot, Giantbomb, retrogamecorps etc, lieterally creating some sort of perceived value, I am really dissapointed at valve.

I didn't buy mine day one, but I did buy my OG Steam Controller and Link very close to when they launched in 2015, and honestly don't remember having a lot of trouble.

How about you do something to stop the scalpers? Go after the jabronis selling these on eBay already

thankful to know how to hit the api to grab one x3 I'm so excited i can't wait for all the fun esoteric controls i can dev into my game with all those inputs o.o guess ill finally have to add the steam lib to my game >.< praying for a steam frame devkit since my other headsets are now broken

Love the fact that I can’t play my disc based CIV 5 anymore because I have Windows 8 computer and never play online. Thanks, I’m sure we all appreciate your designed obsolescence…

dont care

Could you at least have a 1 controller per account limit when you do restock? L

Tell people to stop buying from scalpers

I have 100 hours in l4d1 and 254 hours in l4d2 so im good

or 80 across all of the half-life games (not counting alyx to keep it fair) just for people who really dont do MP stuff. if you have both, you get two

the passing and the sacrifice made them into one game, it counts

I have 80+ between both l4d and l4d2, so I agree with this idea

sorry i have less than an hour in l4d will my 2k hours in factorio count?

The best method is being open with when restocks will be. At the moment, Valve wants the hype from the scalpers.

Thanks guys ilu

Please combat the scalpers and put limits on orders. Thank you!

Hopefully, it'll be worth the wait!

Can you sell them in Mexico? 😊

Can you please make a dual screen steam deck that folds in on itself.

Stop selling things to scalpers and bots please

It will indeed.

So glad I was able to order one before they ran out*, although at this point it exists only as an order number and a photo under "purchase history" of my account details. Will it ship in 7-10 days? in 2-3 weeks? Only The Shadow knows...bwahahaha. *pretty sure having Steam Wallet funds helped.

Very much enjoy the SteamDeck as an accessiblity option, where mouse and keyboard isn't comfortable for me to game with. Extremely heavy desire to order one as soon as it is possible to allow for more seamless transition to/from PC/SD. Was soul crushing to have the controller in cart and fail.

I can wait since I only have a steam deck but my A button is sticking a little from severe metroidvania and roguelite fatigue. 😁

Do something to prevent the scalpers.

Scalpers be makin' some real good money out of this...

Just announcing a plan for restocks would tank the value of the secondhand market. I have a feeling this controller will be around for a hot minute given the growing popularity of PC-couch gaming. They're likely gonna restock before the holiday, but can't say for certain due to world events.

Glad I got it an hour late after a refresh and also the delivery is faaaast. Here's hoping Valve can restock just as quick, so my buddy can get theirs

its a joke, man

Shut up nerd

I was going to buy it when the controller is on my cart and save it until later, but scalpers make it out of stock and making it into ridiculous high price rather than original price.

i kinda figured that would be the case. so i was planning to get one later on anyway

What about Steam Decks? Are they back in stock?

Wow. You guys actually finally came out and made a statement. It's a nothing burger, but shows/gives the illusion that you care. Now we just have to hope you actual do something to prevent this from happy with the next drop.

I would appreciate the opportunity to pay full price now to just get in line for whenever a restock becomes available in a FIFO manner. I’m a patient guy.

Id say deposit then wait til its your turn

Pleaseee Held off of buying a new xbox controller for 5 months since I wanted to save for the steam controller, sold out in thirty minutes. Ill try not to be at work next time i guess

it's probably just because valve never really set it up properly for hardware. not sure why, this isnt new, but.... they didnt.

I get them for games. Nothing for the controller drop.

They do but pretty late and not necessary at release time. I had a notification on my pc to buy. And I was lucky

Steam Machine update?

Limit purchases to one per person based on account age and hours played, then open the window incrementally to everyone else to prevent scalper behavior.

I’ve had plenty of practice waiting of Valve. Hardware restock will be a walk in the park.

We trust you

If possible, could the next batch of controllers please only be sold to accounts that fit certain criteria like account age and recent activity? I think that would greatly reduce scalping. Appreciate you, Valve!

Please bring it back the system you used for Steam Deck. I just want to be able to put an order and get mine when it's my trun

Would preorders be a viable method to prevent/mitigate scalping? How'd that work out for the Deck? If preorders were a good idea then, why didn't Valve do it again?

Sucks, I had 3 good attempts and each of them I just couldn't get it in time. :(

Fire whoever facilitated this launch lol

Yeah probably should’ve implemented similar restrictions to the first Steam Deck purchases. I was lucky enough to get an early production Deck, not lucky enough to get a Controller, thanks to the lack of scalper prevention.

Would you look into expanding the list of countries where it can be bought then?

please set a stricter purchase limit i'm begging you

“Faster than anticipated” Payment processing problems got me… I was able to get it into the cart but never bought it.

The psychology of scarcity marketing vs genuine supply issues is fascinating — our brains literally can't tell the difference between intentional and accidental FOMO triggers. Wonder how many people want it more now that it's sold out?

Unless they take pre-orders, that's exactly what will happen, which sucks.

It's ok guys just send me one for free and I'll consider the whole thing done and dusted

Y'all knew good and goddamn well what demand was going to do, and decided to go ahead with letting literally anyone with an account buy one, and create an artificial scarcity because of scalpers. You know what a ps5 is, saw what happened and said "yeah, we gotta fuck them harder than THAT"

Why haven’t any updates been communicated?

Please!!

It was 2 controllers per transaction, not account.

Hope I can get one eventually. Bummed out I wasn't able to secure one due to scalpers with bots gobbling them up within minutes.

The controller was limited to 2 per account

I would appreciate a system that would give more time to people who can't spam a button for an hour while at work. Like random perfectly stable order pages over a 12 hours window or something. 1 click queue, wait for your possible turn in the next 12h period.

Please put a stop to the scalpers, they ruin everything for everyone.

All must hear! To their disgust 😎

Maybe you can bring back that reservation system you used for the steam deck. I dont mind waiting but whats the point if scalpers just buy all of them again.

The damn scalpers bought everything up again!

You should have done more to stop scalpers from draining your stock.

I'm hoping you use the profits from these controller sales to help subsidize the Steam Machine! $600 for the base model please! Or at least, give us a barebones model without ram, ssd, and no controller for $400, so we can scrounge up our own.

Is it safe to assume that stock was regionally allocated, and that if an order was placed then I secured one while stock was available?

Thank you for the report! Can't wait to get one

As someone who tried to order right at 10am PST and ran into errors for an hour until you were just out of stock. Any future hardware launches need to work a lot better. I hit that continue button way too many times and never got through. My account is in good standing and almost 22 years old.

Was forced to set one up when I bought HL2. Hated it at first, now can't imagine not having Steam.

Old enough to drink, but not to preorder.

Making reselling against the TOS would be illegal in most of the world. And I personally don't want to throw our rights away for video games.

Gatekeeping scalpers is absolutely welcome 🙏

Ikrrr like I own the original steam controller they gotta see that and be like "oh shit" and then let me purchase the controller I have been waiting 10 years for...

Bud, this isn't a class system. A class system would be strictly looking at how much money you've given Valve over the years and going by that. I assure you the person that's played FF14 every day for a decade straight is, like you, a member of the proletariat.

Yes, gatekeeping and elitism are pretty bad things. The best solution is being open with restocks and allowing pre-orders of those restocks, something Valve could have done before orders went live. Scalpers are often part of the marketing strategy - they're great for hype - so they chose not to.

thats kinda what they did with the steam deck reservations. judging by that reservation button thats visible in place of the out of stock button for a second when opening the controller page i THINK they will use that system again for frame and machine reservations.

yeah the hype is real cant wait for the steam machine