https://x.com/valvesoftware/status/2051695149026353424
“Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated, and we hate that not everyone who wanted one was able to get it. We’re working on getting more in stock and will have an update on expected timeline soon.”
PSA: don’t buy any from eBay. fuck scalpers.
if you don’t buy it they won’t sell it. if they don’t sell it, they won’t buy more.
Should report them on eBay too. Force eBay to stop allowing this behavior!
REPORT scalpers on ebay.
Scalping is legal in lots of countries.
Marrying children is legal in a lot of countries, doesn’t make pedophilia any less disgusting and immoral. Fuck scalpers.
People reselling stuff for profit is the cornerstone of capitalism.
They are wholly different situations, and it’s astonishing you went there for a rebuttal.
Fuck capitalism even harder. Scalpers can fuck off die alongside capitalism.
That doesn’t mean you go and abuse someone’s reporting system for something that’s not against their rules or their countries sellers rules.
You just seem to be very angry about this, chill out dude.
But it is against the rules you muppet and if not, it can become against the rules if people report enough.
Edit: Am I angry about some fuckers buying up all the stock in minutes and then reselling for x3 the price? FUCK YES, I AM SEETHING ANGRY 😡.
And I guess you are one of these fuckers scalping shit, by the way you defend them. FUCK YOU CUNT!
What I don’t understand is why they don’t just let everyone place orders regardless of current stock over a certain time window, then once the ordering window is closed, arrange for production to meet demand? Or at least do something like a first-come, first-serve waitlist after the initial stock sells out.
Sure, it would take significantly longer to go from order to delivery, but the customer experience would be so much better without having to deal with the mad scramble to try and get an order in the minute they open up. Letting people stake their claim even if stock hasn’t caught up yet would also deter scalpers.
Maybe there’s a good reason for this, but I don’t know what that could possibly be.
Because market conditions are fucking insane right now. If they allow backorder and their production price doubles they would have to either honor the orders and take a huge loss, or refuse to honor the price and take a reputational hit.
One thing that comes to mind is that even if they get hit by a space rock tomorrow, your order is on it’s way. There’s guarantee it exists and is already destined for you. Seems fair and safe.
Seems like they are sacrificing revenue to guarantee they’ll be able to execute in the delivery. It’s not the highest bar, but it is a bar.
I’m a bit miffed they didn’t handle the release better. Not sure what restrictions were in place but judging from eBay scalper screenshots it wasn’t much.
If only there were two other console SKUs they sold in the past that would’ve better prepared them for this.
Scalpers are already selling it like double the MSRP.
At this point, I’m not really even going to bother. I’ll just wait another year or so until people get enough then snag one.
I still haven’t bought a PS5 because of this lol. At first it was too expensive and scalpers bought them all, so I thought “no worries, I’ll wait a year or two and get one on the cheap when it’s older.” And then the price kept going up over time so I just never bothered.
My son has bugged me for a PS5 and I almost got one, but then convinced him that steam is more than enough for us. A friend of mine has over 2000 games and he shared it with me. Thankfully, my son was convinced 😂
Honestly I don’t even blame them for underestimating demand. Based on comments here and my own personal intuition, I would’ve guessed that it would’ve sold great, to a very niche audience.
Maybe it has more widespread demand than expected, those track pads make it amazing for any couch PC usage, gaming or not, and many existing SteamDeck owners like myself are already aware of this.
Steam hardware selling faster than Nintendo hardware.
I want one, but I’m not sure I $100 want one.
Is the controller a limited run kind of thing or does valve intend to continue selling them indefinetly?
Indefinitely.
Thanks!
I’m excited about this one; i can’t wait for it to go out of production before it becomes available in my country!
Really should have just let people preorder to get ideas for day one demand. I expect after one major restock, the resale value tanks and things are normal in gamepad land again. I’m always annoyed with these companies not taking backorders. They did that with the Deck. It’s a controller sold by the company it’s from sold in its store that has already had backorders done for the Deck launch. This isn’t Nvidia and AIB partners. This is fully Valve controlled in a proven storefront. They could have handled this way better
Fucking consumerism. Everyone really NEEDS brand new controller now. Because valve…
It is a quite unique controller for PC with those trackpads and highly customizable functions, and most people with similar first gen Steam Controller are on the point of breaking it or wanting a little bit extra of those same functions they’re used to. It’s normal to have high demand, and if many of those are scalpers they’ll get fucked by that problem.
Nobody needs it, but people want it because it’s an interesting product by a renowned company
I don’t. I already have an 8bitdo controller and not looking for one.
However, there are others that do, perhaps some that haven’t even considered using a controller on PC.
