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Quoting: Renzatic GearJust keep hammering the continue button until it lets you through. If you end up accidentally ordering 300 extra controllers, sell the rest on Ebay with a $5 markup.
...no more than $5 though. Don't be that guy.

Just checked on eBay... Of course there is "that guy."

[THAT Guy Posting on eBay](https://ebay.us/m/hwWJn1https://ebay.us/m/hwWJn1)

There were three active offers when I checked...
Of course, I had to be that guy too. Put in an offer of $100.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: sarmadYou have a typo in the title: you wrote "out now" instead of "out of stock".

Don’t scare me like that 😅

it's not to scary you, it's a harsh reality

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Soooo... if its fully repairable and easy to work on, it should be pretty easy to get rid of the haptic motors. That would lighten the controller considerably. I know other controllers won't work without their damned motors. Is it the case with the Steam controller? Anyone wants to try it before I buy one? 😁

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Quoting: sarmadYou have a typo in the title: you wrote "out now" instead of "out of stock".

Don’t scare me like that 😅

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Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: GoEsrDo you know if the capacitive grips have configuration or are they just binary?

Their newest video shows the configuration https://youtu.be/a55UIaiTE-A?t=162

That's a shame, we've been getting lots of new binary options in new controllers but no new analog inputs.

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: tarmo888Gyro as Joystick Camera on the other hand, just does micro-adjustments by default - adjustments that joystick isn't accurate enough to do.

I've had the opposite experience. Gyro to Mouse works great once you set it up right, but I've never been able to get Gyro to joystick camera to work the way I'd like. It feels floaty to me, and if the game you're playing uses a built in deadzone, you'll always have trouble zeroing in those super tight aims.

Luckily, most games have deadzone setting and now it can be lowered a lot thanks to TMR joysticks.

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Only Valve can sell a $100 gamepad like hotcakes 😆

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Quoting: tarmo888Gyro as Joystick Camera on the other hand, just does micro-adjustments by default - adjustments that joystick isn't accurate enough to do.

I've had the opposite experience. Gyro to Mouse works great once you set it up right, but I've never been able to get Gyro to joystick camera to work the way I'd like. It feels floaty to me, and if the game you're playing uses a built in deadzone, you'll always have trouble zeroing in those super tight aims.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: jjaksicSteam Survey is useless garbage. It's not humanly possible to do polling and statistics any worse than this. Please ignore it, it's just worthless random noise junk not worth anyone's 2 seconds of attention (except maybe to teach a toddler how not to do statistics).

You always this cheery or is it your birthday which caused you to just glow with joy and spread some love?

Not always. Only "that time of the month" when Steam Survey gets published. It's an affront to polling and statistics, Linux gaming and even Valve itself. It's sooooooo bad! I have to call it out, because it's not obvious. Most people look at the results and think "oh, Linux moved up (or down)", not knowing that most movement is just due to sloppiness in how the data is collected, analyzed and presented.

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You have a typo in the title: you wrote "out now" instead of "out of stock".

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Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: ThibugPretty sure we broke Steam the moment it got released, they never learn 😆

It's likely not Valve. The only part of Steam that broke was payment. Like most vendors, they are not likely doing payment processing in-house.... meaning they are limited by whatever bandwidth their 3rd party processor(s) gives them AND those 3rd parties aren't going to take down other customers just to account for Valve's increased traffic.

That's not it, I had the amount in Steam Wallet (credit card was processed earlier today) and it still failed for the first 8 minutes for me.

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Sold out in an hour and already being scalped on eBay for two to three times the price. Glad I was able to get one on Steam, though I had to spam the Continue button for several minutes before it finally went to the purchase page.

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I got recommended the trailer and thought it was cool that there was the weird engines from history and now I think it would be funny if British Railways UFO patent would be in the game.

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Thanks a lot for the extremely detailed review, Liam. This really covers all the open questions. I do hope they fix the remote pop-up problem in some way soon since on GNOME that is even more annoying than on KDE.

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Quoting: GoEsrDo you know if the capacitive grips have configuration or are they just binary?

Their newest video shows the configuration https://youtu.be/a55UIaiTE-A?t=162

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There is the option to use Gyro as Joystick Camera but I really disliked that way of doing it. It's nowhere near as smooth and responsive compared with setting it as a Mouse. For games when you need it mapped more natural for the speed, the Gyro as Mouse is what you want.

I never understood the Gyro as Mouse recommendation, it has conflicts in many games and doesn't make much sense in shooters. In my experience using gyro with Steam Deck and Gulikit KK3 Max, gyro is not meant to replace the joystick, gyro is meant for micro-adjustments. If you use Gyro as Mouse to look around and engage/disengage it with left trigger, you get your hands and view in a position where you need to correct it with the joystick all the time. Gyro as Joystick Camera on the other hand, just does micro-adjustments by default - adjustments that joystick isn't accurate enough to do.

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Quoting: GoEsrDo you know if the capacitive grips have configuration or are they just binary?

I imagine it'll be exactly like the capacitive thumbsticks on the Steam Deck, so it'll just be able to determine whether you're touching it or not.

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Was going to pull the trigger on a 5070ti today due to a special offer but now I will wait to see how this develops as I am in no immediate rush. I need another GPU for my AM4 machine but I want the full HDMI 2.1 Support. If AMD have finally come through then I will reconsider and get a 9070xt instead.

Will keep an eye on this.

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Already out of stock. Expected as much, but thought maybe the extra wait was so Valve could get enough stock lined up to prevent a first-day sellout.

Some part of my computer just started failing and that has me waiting for a replacement part and spending money, so I don't mind waiting for it to come back in stock. Maybe there will even be a sale.

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Quoting: _MarsI got one after spamming for 20 minutes. But now they sneakily increased the estimated delivery from 3-5 days to 6-10 days.
I'm glad I got it but now I have to wait longer, dang 😆

Thanks for that advice. I was about to give up when I saw this and decided to carry on. It took around 10 minutes of furious spamming, but got there in the end. Just glad I loaded up the Steam Wallet a couple of days ago. Cheers 👊

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Do you know if the capacitive grips have configuration or are they just binary?

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I finally got 1 after 30 minutes of smashing the continue button… the world would've ended for me had I not gotten 1 😭

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Here's to hoping they can manufacture another batch soon.

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Finally managed to order after 40 mins. I literally tried to order at 6pm on the dot.

Valve need to come up with a better solution for when the Steam Machine goes live as the servers were hammered the second the buy now button went live. In the end I just decided to spam the buy now button.

Funny as it was almost as difficult to log in here as it was to place my order for a steam controller.

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Quoting: ThibugPretty sure we broke Steam the moment it got released, they never learn 😆

It's likely not Valve. The only part of Steam that broke was payment. Like most vendors, they are not likely doing payment processing in-house.... meaning they are limited by whatever bandwidth their 3rd party processor(s) gives them AND those 3rd parties aren't going to take down other customers just to account for Valve's increased traffic.

The site itself wasn't broke, just the payment processing system. Which is why I'm saying there's nothing Valve can do in that case unless they bring the payment processing in-house..... which is generally not worth the additional in-house cost and legal liability that goes with that.

Oh, and the Steam Controller is already sold out. Left my refreshing session for 5 min and the error changed to it being an "Out of Stock item"

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Out of stock now! 😫

Wasn't able to get one.

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Quoting: detroutI finally got through, but there was a warning "Delivery delays expected due to high order volume" once I got to the confirm my purchase step.

I've heard that the wait is now about 10 business days, but I don't know how true that is.

I'm still holding out hope that I'll luck out, and get it by Friday.

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Quoting: detrout"There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance".

Anyone else having trouble buying a steam controller?

Is there a digital thundering herd buying them all?

Spamming the continue button a lot actually worked for me. Like 40 times really fast.

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I finally got through, but there was a warning "Delivery delays expected due to high order volume" once I got to the confirm my purchase step.

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Quoting: detroutAnyone else having trouble buying a steam controller?

Is there a digital thundering herd buying them all?

Just keep hammering the continue button until it lets you through. If you end up accidentally ordering 300 extra controllers, sell the rest on Ebay with a $5 markup.

...no more than $5 though. Don't be that guy.

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