It is suprising to me since all I heard from “the press” was “It’s kinda expensive and not amazing”, so it selling out is interesting.
"Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in
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outerzenith@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Aren’t most of those scalpers?
Wish Valve has some kind of system that may prioritize users with certain account age or activity rather than free-for-all that can be exploited by scalpers
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It would be insanely easy since they’re sold thru the steam store.
Like, I don’t know if there’s a limit, but if someone ordered a huge amount it would hopefully flag it.
For stuff like this, I’d support one per account with recent activity. Then once supply catches up, open it up to whatever
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean they could check a lot of things. Verified purchases. Account age. Time spent gaming. Any barrier to entry, no matter how small, would stop the majority of scalping.
Require an account three months old, at least one verified purchase in the past year, ten hours played across any title(s).
I’m pretty sure 100% of real customers would hit each of those and nearly 0% of scalpers.
ech@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
They should go talk to the company that sold the Steam Deck. They had it figured out.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
While there are some scalpers, there is 0 evidence to the claim that “most” sales are for scaplers. Quit spreading misinformation.
outerzenith@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
curiously, I’m not claiming anything, I was simply asking which you have provided the answer to, there’s no real evidence that they are scalpers. Thank you.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Search Steam controller on ebay. Set minimum price for msrp.
There are hundreds.
I hope valve finds them and cancels their orders and bans everything about them.
Scalpers are scum.
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
So I checked this out, because a few people have said there are a ton of listings on ebay.
On ebay.de, searching for “Steam Controller 2026” in the EU there are three results, along with a bunch of old controllers and unrelated stuff. ebay.com has less than 20 results (plus a bunch of unrelated stuff again).
Where do people see all these?
Just searching for “Steam Controller,” not changing any other filters I get 500+ results and 2k+ results, but almost all of these are the old controllers, other 3rd party controllers, Steam Links, accessories, etc. Do people just take those numbers and think there really are so many scalpers?