DO NOT BUY THEM FROM EBAY!

or any other one of those websites ... the resellers are scum and you've waited this long, you can wait longer! hold strong!

Just give it a week and they'll be back in stock.

They did a hardware launch perfectly for the Deck - Account of minimum age needed, and a queue to buy as devices became available. Why the hell did they go with the old, shit version that only serves scalpers that use bots to scoop up every item?

Oof. That's rough. But given how insanely profitable these ~90 minutes must have been for Valve, I'm sure they'll be back in stock in a few weeks since none of the components seem to have supply issues.

I managed to get one by just spam-clicking the continue button for about two minutes. I know, I'm part of the problem.

I was getting an error as well. I saw someone on Reddit say they just spammed the "confirm" button and it eventually went through.

So I did that for like 10 min and it worked

It will be back in stock reasonably quickly imo.

No issues getting in AU, I think they were live 3am our time and I ordered mine lazily at 9am post-coffee. Almost forgot to do it

Ah, one of the dozen people who actually liked the original Steam controller! A rare sight indeed.

I'll also be waiting for a mext batch... the steam frame will be a nightmare to get if it's like this too... i have close to 9 000 hours in steamVR i wish that would count for something when getting the new headset.

I have mine still. Bought it at launch. Never went back. Best controller I've ever had the pleasure to use. I genuinly LOVE everything about it. I don't even want the new one.

Can't improve upon perfection

I barely managed to get one, had to spend well over 20 minutes spamming the continue button, because the first couple of times I passed that screen something else failed (they even charged me one of those times but the purchase didn't finish, so I imagine it will get reverted in a while).

I liked my old steam controller more in theory than in practice, I still have it and use it occasionally but it's more of a rarity when I think the features make up for the lack of d-pad and right stick. But the Steam Deck is just ideal for me, from the moment I grabbed it I have been wanting a standalone controller with that same format and inputs.

In any case, sorry you didn't get one now, I'm sure they'll be back in stock very quickly, it's likely they did a small batch first to test the waters on how much people wanted this. But production is probably ramping up just like what happened with the Steam Deck.

They've released more in waves with other hardware. Just keep checking on the hour for the first few hours, keep subscribed to reddit/Lemmy subs of steam. Or stay up till 10pm, midnight and watch again tomorrow at the same time as this release.

The original was great for games that weren't made for a normal controller. And FPS games.

It'll be in stock again soon I'm certain. They're gamepads, not limited edition Pokemon cards or super cutting edge HBM memory chips

Yeah I got one stuck in my shopping cart. Can't finish the order until it comes back in stock.

I still use the og steam controller

You can always go pay 2-3x and buy one from ebay... it's super convenient and you also pay them the shipping!

/s

I'm not sure if I'm weird or what but for me it only complained about me having a non-standard name and address and that I didn't have enough funds in the Steam wallet it kept trying to use.

I guess I just got super lucky that I got the transaction to go through after only a minute of trying, a literal minute before the announced 10 am Pacific time opening.

I still have one I never used. You can buy mine (I'm in the EU though). Send me a pm

But know this isn't the new one. It's the same as in the picture, which is years old.

My quest to not ever have one is right on track.

Hey, at least you didn't camp in front of the store and waited for hours in the freezing cold to go home empty handed. That's how new hardware releases used to be. They haven't restocked the Steam Deck in months but they will restock the controller soon, I believe.

I retired the payment for about 15 times with 2 in my order basket, then it worked and should be here next week.

I know. I was expecting issues, though. Steam pretty much always has issues with their site at the start of sales and new hardware launches, so this was entirely predictable.

On the flip side, every time this has happened when I was around to notice, there were obvious signs the site was failing from the get-go. Slow page loads, error messages, pages just not loading at all, etc. This time around, the site loaded up fine. Page navigation was quick as normal. Buttons worked. Cart worked. Checkout seemed to be working.

Then BAM. Error message when paying. I tried a few different payment methods and even checked on other devices.

So, I stepped away for a bit. Came back and I was surprised that the controllers were still in stock. Figured I'd try again. That time, I got a different error message when I attempted to pay. I thought maybe there's something fishy with my cart/session so I removed the controller from my cart, expecting to re-add it and try checking out again. Only, when I went back to the controller page, it had flipped over to out of stock. It was literally only a matter of maybe 20 seconds since I'd last checked the page when it was showing as in stock. Missed it by that much.