Submitted 1 week ago by RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
Who all managed to get one?
Who’s with me in the “impatiently has to wait for them to return to stock” camp?
What excites you most about the Steam Controller?
I’ll wait for the OLED version to drop to buy one /s
For real tho clear smoke plastic body with the orange accents would be pretty sick.
got one into my cart but cant pay because its back out of stock
I’ve had it on my wishlist for a long time. Did not get an email saying they’re even available.
Ditto.
Same here
Got mine 3 minutes before the hour. I was smashing that F5 button like I was Brock Lesnar in a squash match. My friend also got one same time, although he had the error screen a few times before it went through.
Good luck on the next releases of the machine and frame, gents 🫡
Yep Valve opened the sales a couple mins early so I had my order complete already when 10 AM PST rolled over. They seemed pretty reliably available for at least 30 mins after that, at least whenever I refreshed.
To add to cart yes. But Most people’s complaints were during the payment part, it kept erroring out.
Am I the only one who doesn’t really want one? I mean, I’d try it, sure, but like… eh?
And I do like some controller games, I have a handful of 8bitdo controllers.
I play docked occasionally, but there are a lot of games I don’t feel like I can play docked without backbuttons/trackpads/gyro/etc. I’m assuming a lot of the people who really wanted to buy one of these were in the same camp as me, where they constantly felt inconvenienced by the lack of deck controls when using regular controllers.
That’s fair
I have a lot of controllers (Xbox, PS, Switch). I don’t need a Steam Controller, and I doubt I’ll use it to its full extent, but I ultimately wanted to tell Valve that there’s demand for their hardware.
Not like they needed me specifically for that, considering they sold out in an hour… but I didn’t know that until it happened
It went out of stock multiple times but after spamming checkout for 40 minutes it finally went through at 1:09PM CST.
Well, anyone who managed to get one, lemme know how the d-pad is on it. Is it better than the OG Steam Deck D-pad or the OLED D-pad? I changed my OLED d-pad to mechanical buttons, and it’s felt much more accurate for 2d platformers and fighters.
Damn, I’ve seen a few of threads about this and it’s making me feel a little guilty that I managed to order one without really trying hard for it.
I won’t have enough money to order one for another 2 or 3 weeks at least, potentially 2 months from now. Any idea if they’ll have them at that point, or is this a limited time thing? I’m not the most up to date with these things, but I have decided I want one for when I dock the deck
They’ll be a thing for awhile.
They’re releasing it as part of a whole lineup that isn’t fully out yet, so you’ve got plenty of time
I’m in the “I still have the original, but will probably buy one”
I liked the original as a concept, but the implementation left me wanting. The Steam Deck is really the best of both worlds, and I’m glad that they’ve basically ported that same design directly into a controller.
I just snag one.
Man I had a hard time battling with myself. On one side, I really want one and was waiting years for this even before the Steam Deck was on the market. On the other hand, my limit was 90 Euros (taxes included). And worse than that, it only functions with Steam. Yes, duh you say, its in the name, the Steam Controller. My hope was I could use it as a replacement for my controller acting as a regular gamepad without all the bells and whistles, playing emulators without Steam too. Looks like my that is not gonna happen anytime soon.
I’m pretty sure it’ll still work without Steam, you just might not have all the bells and whistles. But according to the site, it can connect to anything with Bluetooth.
No controller should be proprietary to one launcher on PC. This is classic valve being platform exclusive dicks.
I got one, took about 11 min of trying before the card would process. During that time I would try 2x every 30 sec to 1 min.
Store was seemingly working fine, just payment processors being overloaded as far as I could tell.
I got one. Had to click “Continue” about 100 times to checkout. Took over 30 minutes.
I didn’t even get an email to tell me it was available, they were gone that quick.
I’ll pick one up in the next batch.
This is the worst day of my life
You must be living pretty good if this day is the worse.
I managed to get one right before it was supposed to be available. I’ll decide if I want to get more later.
Does it pair directly to the steam deck? Without the puck?
Only via bluetooth, which has significantly more lag
Bummer. But full features otherwise?
Depending on how much lag, I could deal with that
Got an order in!
Whelp, hoping to get in on the next batch. Wondering how long it will take to come back in stock.
For those that did snag one, did they share what the shipping timeline looks like?
I was able to order two in Canada. Looks like they are sold out now too.
Looks to be still in stock in the EU?
Well yeah, there are only like two gamers in the EU. I’m talking about America, the center of the universe 🦅
(Just kidding, I’m glad yall seem to have more stock/lower demand)
I’m still able to add to cart on the mobile app
I’m hoping they do like the Steam Deck and let us get a spot in line. It took a few months for me to be able to buy a Deck.
CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It went on sale at 1:00 in my time zone. I had it in my cart at 1:00 and was trying to checkout before it ever hit 1:01, but all I got were errors when trying to continue to payment. Then out of stock. What a bunch of fucking bullshit. Like seriously, what the fuck else was I even supposed to do?
morgan_423@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Same here. I was through the sequence and trying to buy by no later than maybe 1:00:19, and tried three different payment methods, all to no avail. I don’t think we had a chance on this go-round.
CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am disproportionately angry about this for some reason. This has happened with several concerts I wanted to see, too. “Oh, you want tickets to an even marginally popular artist? Fuck you.” Then factor in how fucking expensive computer parts have become since all the AI shit a while back. I’m just so goddamn tired.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Did you get the “There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction.” Error? Just spam continue on that screen. Don’t bother changing payment methods, it’s their processor that’s dying.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The apparent issue is the payment processor (visa/etc) getting overloaded. To avoid it in the future it sounds like you can preload your steam account with the funds (~$108usd where I live due to 8% tax), which will let you bypass the worst of the checkout errors.