▲ 437 ▼ Excited to announce our Steam Controller arrives on Steam May 4th at 10 a.m. PT. | Valve via Bluesky (bsky.app) submitted 3 months ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 months ago (2 children) And I will be buying one at 10:01am. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago (2 children) And by 10:00.1 it will be sold out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kionay@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago 10:00.1 ten hours, zero minutes, and one tenth of a minute (6 seconds) or ten minutes, zero seconds, and one tenth of a second? either way fuck the scalpers that are gonna try to ruin this for everyone permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago If they do the rollout like the Deck initially, it should make it harder for scalpers and bots to scoop them up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) I'll be trying, but there's a 99% chance it's not available in my country 😭 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) It was the same for the original Steam controller, and the Deck on launch... Even the Index is still pretty hard to obtain. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah Valve doesn't ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous... I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago (2 children) And by 10:00.1 it will be sold out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kionay@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago 10:00.1 ten hours, zero minutes, and one tenth of a minute (6 seconds) or ten minutes, zero seconds, and one tenth of a second? either way fuck the scalpers that are gonna try to ruin this for everyone permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago If they do the rollout like the Deck initially, it should make it harder for scalpers and bots to scoop them up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kionay@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago 10:00.1 ten hours, zero minutes, and one tenth of a minute (6 seconds) or ten minutes, zero seconds, and one tenth of a second? either way fuck the scalpers that are gonna try to ruin this for everyone permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago If they do the rollout like the Deck initially, it should make it harder for scalpers and bots to scoop them up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) I'll be trying, but there's a 99% chance it's not available in my country 😭 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) It was the same for the original Steam controller, and the Deck on launch... Even the Index is still pretty hard to obtain. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah Valve doesn't ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous... I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) It was the same for the original Steam controller, and the Deck on launch... Even the Index is still pretty hard to obtain. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah Valve doesn't ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous... I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah Valve doesn't ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous... I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ScytheDraven47@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous... I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around. permalink fedilink source parent