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Valve's £85 Steam Controller divides gamers ahead of May launch (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have two Elite 2s, one for my wife and I, was hoping they'd finally last us a long while, nope, within a year both have stick drift and faulty bumpers.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    My coworker is on his 10th or 11th Elite controller.

    He bought one and when it developed stick drift in 6 months he went to try to do a warranty and it'd supposedly take a month or so and just be a repair. He ended up repairing it himself with new sticks, which also developed stick drift in 6 months. Oh and the back buttons developed double clicks.

    He ended up just going to a store(target, best buy, whatever) and bought a new one and then put his old one in the box and returned it.

    Does it every 6 months when the controller starts acting up. So been doing this for years. Target doesn't care, best buy doesn't care.

    Funnily enough I told him about the Steam Controller and he said why buy that when there's the Elite controller or the PS pro controller...I'm like you're on your 10th one? Why would I buy something that has that many issues?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh good, I have that to look forward too.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, maybe you'll be lucky lol.

    I was very angry considering how expensive the controllers were, I've become increasingly disillusioned with Microsoft/Google/Etc products as they charge a premium price yet theyre often much worse then competitors at a similar price.

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