STEAM CONTROLLER IS SOLD OUT #shorts

Scalpers are the worst. They need to get a life and a job

Aaaaand it’s gone

We DID hype up the controller 😅

Y’all am I the only one who thinks the pads below the joysticks would be weird to use i feel as if I havent heard anyone mention that, but also I havent tried it so 🤷🏻‍♂️

we need to make it illigal that if it is not a need you cant resale something within 6 months of release

I got that in my cart at 12:58 and those asshats in steam kept giving me an issue with payment error

New insult unlocked"Scalper"

We need total scalper death

Saw this on twitter and knew this short was coming

Scalpers are legitimate targets ⚔️👀

We need new laws.

Don’t give scalpers ideas about the steam machine…

Nobody buys from scalpers. Just get a different controller lol

Your audio is terrible here

Ever seen a CONTROLLER get scalped?

Thankfully the time that it released was right as I was done getting ready for work, so I managed to snipe one just for me right before they sold out. Can't wait to get it in my hands finally! Have had a Steam Deck for a bit now, and it has been nice, but I'm eager to have those controls with the power of my PC.

Scalper no scalping

No one buy them from scalpers and make them regret their purchasing decision.

My friend was able to get one from steam. Its absolute garbage, its almost double the suze of a xbox controller and is the most clunky peice of crap ever

Make to demand? When one is ordered just have a 2 week build period to make and ship out fresh 🎉

Funny thing is people will still buy those controllers for 300🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Knew this would happen

Bot buyers

Bro sick the Devil May Cry team on the Scalpers.

HEY dont give them ideas

Demand overwhelming…more like scalper bot accounts

bro its less then a day

At this point they are gonna start buying food and water and doing the same we need to stop this man

Sorry but that controller looks terrible

I wish we could all just agree to let scalpers drown in their abundance of stock.

I wish they being ice i swear

if i would have a nickel every time steam has crash for how many people bought something i have two nickels which is a lot but it weird happen twice

Nothing is sacred anymore. 😮‍💨

Like JobbyTheHong once said: SCALPERS SHOULD BE SCALPED!

We need a big scalping crime...... Yeah, like if it can be proven that you purchase an item with the intent to resell it at an inflated price should totally be a crime.

I'm so glad I got one

scalper priced now 400$ CAD atleast theses scalpers are a nightmare.

This is what I hate the most about buying things. As person myself who has a disability, I don’t even get chance like this when something is just released like this in these situations. It not fair. I only get paid at certain times and yet before I even get it, It’s sold out. There needs to be a fair system for everyone including those people who have disabilities that don’t get paid a lot🥺☹️

Do you even really need it right now anyway? A PS5, Xbox, and a 8bitdo controller will do just fine.

Controller: 99 Controllers thanks to waste of human resources (scalpers): 199

Can't even blame Steam XD

I hate scalpers. Absolutely despicable scum.

I already have a couple controllers that work so I didn’t have the intention of buying a steam controller, but any time I hear the word scalper when it comes to a new product, it grinds my gears to the point where I would not only wage war against scalpers, but when they are caught, they will be executed in front of their families.

I have a feeling This isnt just scalpers. But also corporations having a division for just buying out stuff they think they can nickel and dime for too

Blame the idiots that actually buy them from scalpers... It's because scalpers are even earning money that gives them the reason to keep going 😮‍💨

NEVER buy from a scalper! Wait for restock and enjoy watching the rats sell off scalped inventory at a major loss.

Report all scalpers. Dont buy unless its market price or from steam.

Is there any way to give scalpers the death penalty? Why did they even bother doing this nonsense, why can't they just all die out?

What steam should do is have the store sell one controller/machine a day to an account buying it so scalpers can hoard them all like how stores did pokemon cards

The Steam Controller is out no—AND IT'S GONE!

That’s crazy the company lets it happen, but nobody will be using them for awhile until they release more. Who ever pays that, must love to get played

If you actually buy anything from a scalper you are the biggest problem. Not the scalper.

Dude i am so lucky i was able to get one. The spam clicking the order button even during the crash paid off. While i expected it to sell out, i dident think it would be THAT quick

I kept on getting a failed to initialize or update error, but I saw online that some were getting through. So I sat there for over 30 mins clicking and finally got one 4 mins before they were out of stock.

When the Steam Machine and Frame come out, Valve needs to use the system they made for the LCD steam deck where you put some money towards it to get in line and then get sent an email to buy it once they reach your place in line. Keeps the scalping to a minimum and makes sure everyone can get a place in line, even if they have to wait for a different batch.

Time to beat scalpers with hammers

Scalping should be illegal

Need to make it so things cant be sold above MSRP without a licence or something wtf is this bs. Its so out of hand man

Scalpers man, so inspirational😂

Scalping should be illegal

They have bots that buy everything and resell it

I can’t believe I got one like 45 mins after it dropped

The easiest way to remove scalpers is have steam require an ownership name on the steam controller, which is tied to the debit/credit card used. For example, if AB buys the controller and uses his card then AB owns the controller. Steam should update terms and conditions that AB is not allowed to sell, rent, or have anyone other than him access the controller, doing so will result in a fine and can be taken as a legal action breach of contract. Better yet, set the fine to 5 million usd as breach of contract and if anyone reports them and once acquitted, the reporter will receive an X amount of the fine. This'll eliminate scalpers and promote bounty hunters in eliminating the scalpers.

I have it in my cart but can't buy

Forget those controllers get anything else if you want it you cant have it thats how it works now. Either you buy super cheap generic stuff or super expensive.

You know what would solve this? Pre orders, 1 per account pre orders. Scalpers are greedy but verifying accounts takes work and scalpers are also lazy

The Steam Machine will probably be fine If the price is super expensive, demand will be low

its not that hard make it so u can only purchase 1 controller per month per user and only sell it on steam and they have to be verified accounts with games and play time

And... It's gone

I can’t wait for scalpers vs steam support we know what they do to hackers scalpers are going to fear steam 😂😂😂

Pokémon cards Consoles Now controllers What’s next???

If you just don’t buy things from scalpers, they’ll have wasted money.

Then don’t buy it damn not so complicated

Price gouging should be a fraud, good thing we have mrp and not msrp

Ok, you’re framing this as if Steam PLANNED for scalpers to overcharge for scalped products. I get it’s fun and games but don’t try to be sneaky with a blatant attempt at shade

Limit 2 per steam account/credit card, for the first month of sales they could limit it to only people who have at least 750 hrs of play time (cuz 720hrs is 1 month) are allowed to purchase up to 2, AND if you don’t meet those requirements it gets ur ip address that you’re purchasing from and blocks it for 1 week from purchasing another at least during the 1st month of sales.

Scalping needs to be illegal worldwide. They can’t keep getting away with this.

Remember its nice to have but never worth buying from these people. But people will buy regardless... :/

Me, not being obsessed with my beautiful colorful light screen, am able to week til steam makes more so I can buy from them at the appropriate price instead of letting scalpers gape me

Friendly reminder to beat your local scalpers with hammers

Guys I have this crazy idea, don’t buy from scalpers, they can’t make money if their consumers don’t exist

Just gonna wait for the console. And if the scalpers take that too? Gonna wait until there are more. I'm not desperate for an item exclusively for entertainment, and I seriously hope no one is stupid and desperate enough to try and buy from scalpers. There's no need.

They better bring back the que system that made so much sense.

Hear me out.... What IF..... Steam themselves are the scalpers?!?!?

LAME! The track pads would have been perfect for my docked ROG ALLY X

Scalpers are the worst of humanity

I love capitalism and hate corporations

Hope every scalpers bite the curb

There should be Laws in place that stop scalpers from actually making a living off this bullshit, like laws that stop people from buying unreasonable amounts of items from stores unless they can prove a good reason behind it, or a law that prevents people from reselling items immediately after being purchased. Like, these laws don’t have to be punishable by jail time, but they should be punishable by fines if caught. Like scalping items should be legally akin to a scam. Of course scams in general should have some sort of legal repercussions behind them as well.

I don't got to worry about not getting a steam machine when it releases because I'm not buying one

Scalpers ruining everything

Remembet, no matter how long it takes, BUY FROM STEAM ONLY! Let the scalpers sit on thousands of dollars of controllers that won't sell.

I swear, it's almost as if the scalpers are insiders that are just there to ensure you get those preorders instead.

Scalpers ruining everything man 😑

Not available in my country yet 😢

this is why we can't have nice things

Don’t buy from scalpers if they can’t make money they’ll stop doing it

Please make it able to preorder it but only one per IP adress

Insane, given how ugly that controller is.

Not a scalper, but got mine before they sold out

That is the ugliest controller i have ever seen 😅 like...wtf?! Who would wanna play with this thing?

Got one before the scalpers got to it.

"are scalpers really going after controllers now" have been for at least 10 years now

Not buying this from anywhere but Steam's site. I waited out scalpers for a PS5 and I'll wait them out for this

I saw it when it said add to cart, I didn't end up buying it.

I was lucky to get mine.

"Are scalper going for controller now?!" Yes, they will for the sake of profit The only way to make sure they don't get any profit is to *NOT* buy any and make it the *MOST* non profitable for them

Scalpers be scalping, only way to win is not buy from them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All ppl have to do is target the scalpers if something is mailed to you well…… you have the return address

Scalper dont deserve anything

Just use a keyboard and mouse people. Not rocket science

Scalpers go after everything. Its a shame its not illegal preferably capitally punishable.

I hate to sound like a hater, but I wish steam could’ve at least said one or two remotes per person😭

steam support will probably hunt every scalper now lol

Steam community, GET THEM!

Will people please stop buying stuff from scalpers. Even if you can afford it, your enabling the behavior.

I don't get why actual good people get doxxed on Reddit, Discord and 4chan, while these filthy scalpers get away with ruining hobbies for everyone. We need to get the 4chan army to dox them.

This is how i think, If you buy a product from a scalper then you are an idiot, first they cant be trusted, second why would you pay extra for a product, they will release the product again and you can just buy one then, it is just a controller and it does nothing special... Controllers aren’t limited-run sneakers or some crypto NFT. Sony, Microsoft, whatever brand—it’s just plastic, batteries, and some sensors. They crank these things out by the millions once production ramps up. Waiting a few weeks or months almost always gets you the official price + full warranty. The scalper tax is pure stupidity unless you’re literally rich and allergic to waiting

Scalpers are the landlords of online shopping.

I hate scalpers but I wish I was one, I’d be so rich

Someone call steam support to execute the scalpers

The steam machine and steam controller are going to be sold out for months. You’ll be lucky to get one in 2027.

Oh pleeeease tell me they are monitoring this so that scalpers can’t do that, I wanted the controller and the steam machine, but I will not pay thousands of dollars more for what steam is offering, which is going to kill their hardware market before it can ever go anywhere

Scalping should be illegal.

Can someone contact Gabe and ask him to make the resell his controllers illegal? I feel like if he made a statement saying reselling this on ebay will be acknowledged as an illegal action and we'll deal with it would probably be another w

Fun fact about scalpers you can report them and sue but it never leads to anything

Steam better get ready to crash again with subnautica 2 coming out

Reminder to report scalpers in ebay for pre-selling to get them removed.

... See I was thinking about instantly buying it but then I thought "Il wait until payday" They should have limited the amount you could buy to 1 per steam account

Steam Controller with normal price doesn't and won't exist, just like Half Life 3.

I missed out due to demand. I love it. I won't buy from scalpers, but this is a sign of good things to come. Congratulations Steam.

Managed to get my order in last night after two failed attempts. It's crazy how scalpers have ruined so many markets.

i literally tried to buy it when could press buy now but it just kept saying cant continue this and after while saying too many "byers " and cant process it and after while it just read sold out and checked on ebay they are around 150 - 250$ xD god damn scalppers are everywhere

Just dont buy from scalpers just w8

This is why I stick with PC and stick with my scuff controller

Another L for valve

on my birthday too

Its not scalpers its the company faking demand to drive up prices

... for a second I thought it was ONLY those who were interested that got it... I was wrong. great. and best of luck with the machine and frame. Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!

That controller ain't cute

I love how there is other country with laws against scalpers but country like USA don’t do anything against it cause it BENEFITS USA economy

DO NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS UNLESS YOU WANT EVERYTHING NICE FROM SCALPERS.

Scalping should be illegal. Stores can track how many of a item you buy, so put a limit on the amount any account can purchase. If you want two you better have two accounts. Now this would have to very per product as I understand buying two controllers in case you lose one or if you are buying for family, but in those cases maybe stores can offer a family size type of amount of product. Either way there should be a way of making Scalping stop.

That should technically be illegal cuz you're basically scamming people then and scamming is illegal

For the love of everything, don't anybody but those scalp controllers. Let them eat the cost

I imagine this dude with gray hair “We at X have announced that Y is failing due to Z”

Should have done it like the steam deck and let ya pre order. But hey I'll bet a lot of those scalpers aren't real scalpers but the actual company itself fake scalp selling them.

Anything you want, you can never have

Here's something no one wants to talk about, a lot of "scalpers" are just shelf companies from the bigger companies redeeming their product for a higher margin and make even more profit while saving face and redirecting blame on another less existent group

Heh, called it. I knew something so good would make scalpers mouth water. Should've kept a really close look on those.

BOTTED. For a second I thought this was a One Piece post 😭

Stop buying from scalpers, they’ll go broke and never be able to scalp again

People and players need to understand, corporation do not give a damn about their consumers who actually care. They care about of making that money.

Found one for $350 on eBay - I offered $100 so they can make a buck back before taxes.

DO NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS!

This is one time Imma say Steam is taking a fat L for not going after these scalpers.

Hey Jacob, there's too much high end on your recording,its peaking hard

Ahhh them good old scalpers ruining everything like with ram ai and scalpers, gpus (long time ago) scaplers and crypto miners then i dont remember

Scalpers should be shot You didn't hear me say that.

Adults need to learn to control their impulses and just not buy from scalpers. Stop giving parasites your money.

tried to get mine an immediately but the page crashed, luckily i was able to get it an hour after release

SCALPER NO SCALPING!

consumers are the problem and i am tired of people pretending they are not. literally if people just refused to buy at inflated prices people would stop scalping

“We have released the steam controller” "Ok time to buy it" “And they are gone." "...What." "They are all sold out, they are gone."

Scalping should be a felony

They should offer the steam machine for to all who have active steam accounts first

Was literally just about to order one after I got out of work

How it was for the ps5 when it released.

Good news, on eBay Scalpers are getting shut down due to mass reporting!

Its just a controller guy's. Calm Down.

I managed to get one took an hour though.

nah whos buying a 2k pc thats not worth 2k , wild 😂

I dont really care about the controller I need the system & a controller

Not even they can contain the power of consumerism

Scalpers would go after oxygen molecules if they could

Im glad i got my pro when it first came out havent had a problem gaming since

I’m sure scalping will happen with the steam machine. But for over $1,500 you can still get a pretty nice pc that will be better than a steam machine. So there’s not really much room for them to go up. It’ll probably be a couple hundred more than list price.

Scalping should be detectable and illegal

Its a damn controller there are better ones on the marker let these idiots eat their stock.

Scalpers are just human garbage They’re why it took 90% of people years to get their hands on a PS5 and why it will be the same for us to own anything “new” in gaming ever again.

I like how he never got mad at steam. Just the crappy scalpers

They have to put a limit on how many people can buy

We should send scalpers to the sun

Guys please be patient and dont pay the scalpers. We all lasted this long without the steam controller we can last months longer. Feed into the scalpers and theyll go right back to it.

Dont support scalpers buy direct.

Can’t think of a lower form of life than scalpers.

Welcome to The Capitalism update 2.0 😅😂

Or you can buy a console play the same games pretty much , will always work and can buy a 20$ controller🤷

In schools, the easiest way to stop bullies is show them that you don't care, then they'll get bored and leave you alone, and the same applies to scalpers. They keep pulling this off because people keep buying from them for 2-3x the retail price, if we stop buying from them for long enough, they'll get bored and stop buying all the stock.

All it takes to stop scalpers is to not send 300 controllers to the same address

Always remember. When you order something. It has a return address.

Every reseller as a side hustle is a scammer. The worst are the ones that pay $5 for a thrift store item, spend $2 and 2 hours flipping it, then sell it online for $30 with words like "vintage," and "original" in the description.

Wish people would stop buying from scalpers so they would bankrupt themselves, also scalpers must have a great relationship with their family if their life purpose is ruinning the economy when the government already doing it.

Wait its sold out and i didnt even knkw it released...

Saw that coming.

Don't worry Guys gaben will do something about this

Scalpers go for small bits of shiny square paper. You really thought they would ignore the hyped up controller launch.

Whats scalpers? Never heard of it

My ps4 controller works.....

Hopefully, they do pre-orders so we don’t have to deal with all that

Rare stream L

i think they will make more steam machines they released a steam controller in the past and it didnt do well at all so they probably under produced

I’m good I’ll stick to my key and mouse

Nobody buy from scalper wait for the next wave

Scalpers are just the ebay version of scammers, should face the law

Scalping is legal and capitalism

Why couldn't they do pre-orders?

This happened with the dualsense edge controllers and the joysticks to replace them the joysticks are like 20 each and scalpers were selling them for like 60 until they posted a limit steam needs to pose a limit

Steam machine is gonna sell for 1000, scalpers will snipe it in a few hours, and sell it for 1800-2000 lmao

Scalpers would stop scalping if people stopped buying from them

You may as well bye a pc for them prices

May the fourth be with you and have we long awaited the revenge of the 5ith. Battlefront 3 babbbby!!!

It said buy on my page and I was showing it to my wife, then I refreshed the page to buy it and it said out of stock :(

I didn't think they would go out of stock, but I waited until the time it released and was refreshing the page to buy it instantly just for the fun of it since I was awake and not doing anything at that time anyways. Boy am I glad lol

If people just waited a month or 2 the scalpers would lose money and the store would restock. Only way to knock off scalpers forever is to not buy from them.

Server crashing? Reminds me of something that has silk.

Yeah, the second I saw how fast it sold out, I knew it was because of scalper bots.

Scalpers have to be one of the shittiest scum of the earth

We just have to wait 6 months to a year and then you can get it for normal prices again. Just the reality we live in now with no concrete laws against scalpers and using bots to ddos the servers with buy requests.

I got my wisdom teeth out less than an hour before ... I was still whack out of my mind and when I finally mentally came to I had apparently managed to successfully purchase one Don't ask, I don't know how

To avoid scalpers simple buy it from other places only if it comes out cheaper

If you buy from a scalpers. You're an idiot and part of the problem. I never buy anything at launch. I have no problem waiting.

Hell nah

Its still a w for steam, steam is always winning it's the people who ruin it

We need laws against this sort of thing. Like you can't re-sell something you purchased from a company until a year after it's release or something. Or that online resale sites must confirm if something is an original product, and if the person selling is not the creator of that item, make there some form of sales cap depending on how long that thing is out. If scalpers can't do more than barely break even until a year or two after they purchased it, it would dismantle the scalping industry

Scalping should be a jailable offense

It’s just the unfortunate truth right now if there’s anything that a decent number of people will want scalpers will get it first and then sell at triple the price. And they don’t care how they get the stuff they scalp

that legit not Steam's fault leave it to these dumb scalpers ruining it for everyone, NOW lets screw scalpers over, DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM Wait till Steam Release more, Scalpers will waste money and out of principle will sell to a loss

All 100

When it comes to consoles, they should make it so accounts can only buy one console and attach this one console rule to the IP and make it so they have to wait for a week to buy another console

This is what happens when kids grow up playing RuneScape and are marketers and bot users. They become adults and want real money and find ways to get it.

These companies need to actually take action against these scalpers

the scalpers is a problem ? then like the doomslayer,.... KILL the problem

The scalper market will fall very quickly when no one buy from them..

Report your local scalpers to the tax collectors. I doubt they are reporting their sales correctly.

So Steam...ran out of Steam...for its Steam controller?

Y'know Im glad that I stayed up to get a controller and by the grace of Gabe I managed to get one.

I guarantee it was scalpers with bots.

Do not pay the scalpers if you have any dignity. You can wait.

Late stage capitalism working as intended

I hope steam realises this and makes an absurd amount of steam machines so the scalpers can get get shafted

Hopefully they send their tactical support team to these scalpers houses soon.

What’s messed up is people pay the scalpers. If people don’t buy they get fucked

I haven't been able to get a steam deck in like ever

Scalping should be illegal

This isn’t giving me high hopes for the steam machine. I will not pay 300 dollars for a controller though I’ll tell you that much. If nobody buys them at that price they’ll come down.

There needs to be a law against scalpers.

I had to work ugh 😑

Bro, scalpers steal cards from under kids noses, yes they'll scalp controllers

Steam will be the MFs to finally end scalping and I just know it

So funny I knew this would happen for a mid overpriced plastic controller the first one was so bad and the ergonomics of this one look like it’ll be a pain to use and hold looks so uncomfortable

How did they only have such a small inventory ready when they knew it was gonna be such a big hit??

They should have only sold 1 per steam account

😭

I don't need a steam machine. I have my $1,400 _ 5 year old PC running windows 10 still and I'm doing A _ O _ K. My Xbox controller works JUST fine for it too... Have fun with your clown box.

Cant imagine the scalping price for the Steam Frame as well

One of the joysticks is in the wrong position

Scalpers are such greedy assholes just like mega corporations and companys

Stayed up until 3am for the Australian release and managed to grab myself one

John Joel Glanton himself cannot keep up with this level of scalping 😭

Why do they allow scalping?

Ah eyes, brilliant idea, scalpers. Raise the price ridiculously high to fatten your pocket… Except the minor fact that only works for people that ain’t patient.

Death penalty for scalping imo

When will scalping be illegal? It needs to be done

Mans only now realizing this? Its been a huge problem for a long long LONG time with gaming, probably longer than card games

Scalpers are not just going after cards. But now controllers and Collector editions of video games. EX: Assassin's Creed 4 Resynced

I set my alarm for right when it launched and managed to get one. I just kept spamming continue at the checkout page despite the error it was giving me and it went through after roughly 5 minutes. I'm happy I was able to get one at the normal price. I would never pay scalpers anything!

Well u can either wait or give in to the scalpers.

It's.... horrible 😅

I got mine in lock

Make a preorder system so they know how many to make and such. Then you can guarantee that everyone that wants one will be able to get them in a somewhat timely manner without having to go through scalpers

I managed to buy a controller an hour after its release after spamming the checkout button

we should take all the scalpers and send them to the moon with no space suits

I should have press buy when I had the chance. I could buy it and I chose to wait! DX

Better to scalp controllers than Pokemon cards tbh. I support this. Leave my hobby alone.

Is anyone surprised?

300 for what. Not even shipped yet

150$ for a controller. that is unacceptable.

It should a Max of two controllers at a time or one console at a time cuz this is crazy man

That's why I take whatevers in the cart of the scalpers before they pay any of it.

Looks ugly as hell

Refreshed the page the moment it was available. Still didn't get one good thing I didn't absolutely need one.

steam produced 2 pieces only

They should have had it as a pre order, instead of a full release, because scalpers

limit one per costumer, i feel like for big drops like these this should be the default

Please dont buy it. Make them sell em for a loss

Send Steam support after them

simple solution for new releases to stop the scalpers "1 per person per day"

Scalpers have reached a new low, they’re scalping Pokemon soup cans and poptart boxes

I moved out of the US several years ago. It isn’t completely non existent, but scalping is horrendous in the US in comparison. I’ve always been able to get something since moving.

Scalpers going for anytjing with a smidge of hype

I know ppl hate verification, but if it's steam I'm okay. Or at least age/activity/purchases of said steam acc history should have priority or some form of 'actual human' guarantee of purchase.

wake me up when its available again on steam

It will be a flop just like the first steam controller, which btw I got for $5 when steam was begging to get rid of them 😂

Tech companies should take scalpers into account when releasing new and hype products. For the PS5, sure, the semi-condutors crisis at that time slowed the *actual consumer purchases, but the scalpers REALLY damaged the will to purchase the console, especially when we consider that Sony did NOTHING against it. They just accepted scalpers money and moved on! But guess what? It backfired relatively quickly as Sony realised that many players were still on PS4 despite having sold countless PS5, that just ended stored on scalpers depots as it was too expensive to buy from them for many people. Anti-scalpers policies should be made.

Just dont buy from them and they will lower the price eventually

If people were willing to just not have it and wait for the prices to drop and stock to normalize scalpers would be out of business.

Gabe Newell: "Google me. I win"

Scalpers wouldn't be an issue if impatient idiots stopped buying from them.

Oh nah! This is some unemployment behavior right here.

Its the switch 2 all over again

Dawg if you think I’m paying 1,000 dollars for a steam machine you are out of your mind

I have bought PlayStation 1-5 Only owned an Xbox 360 once I will never buy a console more than $900 even when it first comes out I will wait

As someone who collects pokemon cards, this ain't my first rodeo with scalpers.

You're hilarious, they're going to post it at 5 thousand

Scalpers are just good for nothing people that failed in life so they don't let others do anything

It is only because we worship sociopathic greed that scalpers have any power whatsoever 😂

now i can be good at sf6 wait wha...

I hope people aren’t dumb enough to buy from these scalpers…

They need to make it the way best buy did it with the xbox one, in order to get one and to screw over the bots scalpers set up, for online orders best buy made it only available as a finance option so the bot would not work to complete a transaction.

I managed to snag one immediately, they really should have done a pre order like they did with the steam deck and probably a thing where if you have X amount of hours on steam you can pre order before others so actual gamers get it, at least in the beginning

Surely something can be done about scalping right? It’s getting out of hand!

don't buy from scalpers. it's easy as that.

There should be like a 2 per person or one 2 per account limit and to be able to buy the controller you have to have a Steam account older than 1-5 months.

Scalping should honestly be illegal

I feel like it's all the people who make money off the steam market cashing out and buying all the hardware up and then reselling it to make some financial tangible profit

Desperately trying to stay unemployed

In europe it was in stock for over 100 minutes

scalpers should be an endangered species and i love the story of the one scalper who got jumped and had his ps5 that he was selling above the retail price stolen.

I get market & supply conditions are tight right now, but gaming companies always severely underestimate demand for their products.

If no one buys from scalpers then they will be out that money, and won't have the money to buy when they are available again.

I got one some how

I owned the first model they released.

Just wait until you see the scalpers shipping prices lol

scalping wouldn't be so interesting if there wasn't idiots to buy way above msrp ,just saying , but yeah , scalpers are the trash at best

Scalping should be illegal

Looks hard to use anyways, i already have issue using the buttons cuz of having to hold joycons

genius idea: dont buy from scalpers and they cease to be a problem 🤯

Welcome to the new scalpers and bot scalpers economy! Enjoy your living hell!

Try living in Brazil

Whoever is out here giving money to scalpers needs to be punished along side them.

Don't worry Father gabe will fix this

we should eviscerate scalpers

And now we play the waiting game!

Scalpers and clankers have ruined everything.

Can we start scalping scalpers

Pc gamers are smarter than console gamers. So I know they’ll just wait for a restock just like how we wait for steam sales 😂

I have an idea don’t buy from Scalpers let them have the extra controllers wait for it to drop again they lose lose

People actually pay for these scalpers? I never understood, what is the damn rush😂

Yeah it crashed the servers i was here at the right moment and vecause their servers weren't reworked after Simksong crash i am not able to buy one for my birthday. Still crying

Welcome to 2021

Wait see how controller fairs. Dont look very comfortable

Unique system where you get a code to buy one steam controller by playing a game and developer chooses the system so let's say hollow knight, your account you beat hollow knight chapter 1 set by cherry team and then you get one code to buy one steam controller and you can give this code to others You can pick any game as long as the developer makes a system for it But only one per account I guess Hacks and exploits to scalp with this system in place would have to be EXTRMEELY complicated especially if make it even more complex games have cool downs customisable by developer so people can't spam easy games And it can be hard challenge like counter strike 2 10 knockouts or any game hard challenge People could help each other out to complete the challenge to get a steam controller like in coop games man I'm genius hahaha We have potential Everyone can be genius retailing can still improve Everyone eveurhign everybody connected respectfully precisefully in abecome better way Let's go!😂❤😊

This might be the first ever time gabe newell lost

I was so hyped to buy this. By the way, it was sold out upon "release" I woke up at 3AM PST and waited all day for nothing. Just like a decent GPU, I shall wait a milennia.

You think thats dumb, scalpers recently started buying up all the Pokémon Poptart Boxes... Theres no card packs in then and its standard flavors so I don't get the reasoning at all.

Scalpers are some of the worst *creatures* out there.

Scalpers should have thier scalps removed

I like to message scalpers and leave them a not very nice message

i was able to get one as soon as it released

Scalpers go after everything. Even controllers. Only market I haven’t seen them touch is adult toys…yet.

I will rip the scalpers scalp off

It should be legal to hunt those animals down.

Bots, scalpers, and even Steam not learning from the last time with the Deck. As the comments said: Scalpers Ruin Everything

Valve REALLY should’ve prepared better for this 😅

Bro scalping is just a money making method, you all get so vexed over it Sorry but it's a skill issue

I'm glad we didn't scalped in Australia because I was able to buy one just 20mins ago

Bruh! It just came out! Why!?

People who buy from the scalpers are the issue

Luckily got mine by getting a lucky refresh 3 minutes before it was supposed to go live, had no issues, excited for it to arrive

Just don't buy it rn brothers. That's the best way.

Steam controller is not that good anyways.

don't give them money no matter what

I love this style of content lol

Can we agree to torture scalpers? Or atleast agree to end them for good?

I buy 1. now waiting on the arrival of the gabe controller.

Sir ya mic fix it. Those ses are harsh

Scalpers aren't the problem, it's the morons that will actually buy them at that price because they can't just wait

aaand its gone…

Nope. Scalpers are going extinct sooner or later. I just don’t know when.

No one should buy from scalpers, let them stew in their money lost by hoarding and trying to flip items for a quick buck.

Simple fix don't buy them. 😂 Give it 5 months..

300 dollars hell na.

I really wish we can destroy those scalpers bot. This is completely ruin the online purchase pre order. The retailers really need to update their security purchase to prevent this

Can we track down these scalpers. We need to talk

That's why I stopped being unemployed, too many sweats

So happy I bought 1 at launch 😭

I mean hey it’s a monstrosity so i wasnt going to buy it anyways lol.

Hope no one buys a scalper product. Need to starve them

It lasted 25 minutes and I cry

So glad I was able to order it when it dropped. Took about 30 mins of spamming the purchase button but it went through eventually P.s DO NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS!! WAIT FOR RESTOCK! If nobody buys from the scalpers then they will be financially destroyed

Expect the price to go up another 50

I hope Steam realizes the problem before the steam machine and make it soo ya are limited to one or two steam machines per account and said account must have a certain time of existing vefore they can make the purchase

Maybe after they make a new batch

And then you go to buy it when the servers come back up and ooos suddenly all 10k or 100k availabld controllers are already sold out

Steam should covertly find out all the scalpers order numbers, ban the accounts used for the purchases, and cancel the orders.

Just keep letting them buy it and don't buy them until they get tired worked for me with the ps5

Scalp the scalpers.

As long as scalpers make a profit they will keep doing stuff like this.

How hard is it to make it max 2 per verified steam account?

Hmm literal loser like wtf

Saw a scalper selling the controller on Ebay for $740,000 USD

All of them are going to do this

I just won't have a steam controller or machine.

GUYS LETS ALL NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS SO THEY ALL GO BANKRUPT 🗣🔥

More than our observers anticipated we can not keep up

I am not an expert, but can't they just allow one person per controller? Also, don't let them buy from the same card and same address again within a given time to prevent scalpers from ruining everything for normal gamers like us

Was on at 10:02, they were already sold out. Scalpers will never get my money.

Bro scalpers been going after pop tarts now

If y'all don't know, scalpers have been using Target and Best Buy for all your... Well, everything of relevance from ram to video cards for years. This is nothing new 😅😅😅

Almost like we should have a department of government that protects the consumer when stuff like this happens. Oh, wait...

Plot twist. Steam crashed themselves then said they're sold out and they're their own scalpers.

Idea: what if valve lets people with large steam libraries have early access to buy the controller before new accounts with empty libraries? that way actual customers get their hands on it before the scalpers.

I WISH that companies would ban scalpers. If you buy more than like 3 or 4 or something too quickly you can't buy more for like a month.

Wooooo I bought 2! Glad I did lol

Just be patient. I know how annoying that is but as long as no one buys from the scalpers then they will leanr their lesson and hopefully wont try it again.

I don't understand why they didn't do pre-orders. It would have allowed the to produce to initial demand

Scalpers are the scum of humanity, along with anyone that buys from scalpers

Do not buy from scalpers. You'll have to wait for more to release. Buying from these scalpers only incentivizes them to continue. Hurt their pocket book by voting with YOUR pocket book

Should make a law prohibiting things recently made to be unable to sell for more then what was paid for them, so scalpers cant resell for more while actual collectors and their collections are still worth the prices they are now, but knowing scalpers they'll find a way around this

Welcome to America

why is this controller so desired?

I’ll stick to my ps5 controller

Steam needs to enact a 1 per person pernday policy. That way they scalpers can only buy so many items each day, giving actual customers a chance to buy them. Scalpers are subhuman and i feel like we need legislation that makes it so you can only resell items at 10% above market price until 2 months has passed. That would slow scalpers down and make reselling less profitable and the supply would be better able to fulfill demand

This is just capitalism... I mean, you all wanted this. The reason why we cant have nice things starts with looking at the mirror.

They really got Silksonged

who wants this bro...

the price was to cheap thats why

You already have a 5,000 dollar PC who cares what it costs you were already willing to dish out thousands of dollars

This is messed up because scalpers are a huge problem, but I think we're forgetting the silver lining here. This is STEAM we're talking about. We all know what happens when people mess with their fans.

LOL this was a paper launch!

aaand scalpers are ruining something great again...

I just spammed the button around release time... Hopefully I get a shipping confirmation.

Say we made scalping illegal

It's sad that people really pay that much though.

This is America 😮

I was able to buy a controller after about 30 minutes if trying to get past the payment options screen.

Ima contact every scalper then tell them to meet in person then bite off their knees

Ahem… The one good thing that the word “preorder” shall be used in this scenario. To those who see this comment, try and see if we can get Steam to roll that kind of thing out, where we can preorder controllers before the scalpers get them.

2000? I think you mean 3000

Don't support scalpers. Happily I got one directly from steam.

The thing is the stores needs to do a strict terms about these stuff that anything shouldn't pass 15% more than it's MSRP

Nah im going to wait, my ps5 controller will suffice for now

Be mad at the people who just wanted one to play games with❌ Be mad at scalpers✅

I have an idea. Stores should limit one item per address rather than one per account. With the way gas pricing is right now, make it so scalpers waste their money on gas to get to separate addresses. That way they won't see it as worth it to buy up all of these items due to losing money on gas. It's only a step but it'd be glorious.

I’m surprised these companies don’t go after scalpers, especially Nintendo 😂

Yeah.... this isnt right. Ill wait until the hype fades and get it for regular price..

Well they can't go after RAM and or gpus anymore because Nvidia and the RAM producers are already scalping them...

All scalpers should be sent on a mission to mars and “accidentally” explode

Solution. Don't buy from scalpers until they're listed for less than MSRP in a desperate bid to recoup the loss. And then still don't buy from them

Steam don't make excuses make a limit per customer. Only two per person. Stop the scalpers

First it was the pokemon collab and now steam what's the point of day one releases now😢

I wished all scalpers where stuck with whatever they try to scalp, no matter the price they offer it for….

Maybe they should have done one of those polls im always doing to get a better assessment of the demand. It smells 🐟

Noooo, we was so close 😭

Scalping should be illegal, its creating fake demand so companies dont even make more because there isnt a market for that many controllers, they are just sitting in someone's garage

If ppl pay 300$ for steam controller there stupid

Lol its not even avalable for purchase in my region.

It is bad to make a death threat to people, but to scalpers, regardless of social situations, deserve it.

Scalpers need their accounts to be banned from ebay and steam. 😂

😂yeah, I expected something like this 😢

scalper for steam machine $2500.00

Me with my 3 xbox controllers.

If this was Pokemon, yall would scram that they should've released more

So this is a joke but pc players building a $1000-$10,000 pcs and get angry over $300

It happened again! 😂😂😂😂😂 Nintendo, Xbox and Playstaion need to take notes

Glad I got my order in

Saw this coming from a mile away

At this point dont even be mad at scalpers. Be mad at the idiots who buy from scalpers because they cant seem to live with having something from day one. Let it ride out, be patient, and let the scalpers lose money and drop the price

I mean scalpers have been doing controllers for a while wanna say it was those see through crystal kinda ps4 controllers were a pain to get (personally ordered one got a different controller in the package even)

Who needs the steam controller, i got some to sell if you want it

SCALPERS!!!

They shouldve done pre orders and make the website have human detection to make sure when someone is typing in their information to purchase product as long as its not copy and paste or insane typing speeds then you can purchase only 1 controller.

Its the scalpers who probably brought them all and their bots continue buying them

Scalpers… why isn’t there a limit on buying things? Also i will just take it as Steam will scower the market and find the people reselling the controllers for higher and kick their sorry butts offline

I managed to get one before they were sold out

Scalping should be punished via actual scalping.

You just complain about everything huh??? Like this one ain't on them my friend

Can people please stop being stupid and buying for scalpers if people don’t pay scalpers they’ll be force to stop others there gonna keep doing this or can companies start putting a limit on what people can buy I’m tired of history constantly repeating it self.

I think scalpers should get a punishment matching the name

Modern governments could easily fix the bot issue but dont. Makes ya think. Comming from elderly RS player who's had decades to see the bot economy develop

Ok scalping should be illegal at this point because this is going to far

I'm waiting for steam to target scalpers the way they treat scammers

MY DUMBASS JOB MADE ME STAY LATE AND FUCKED UP MY SLEEP SCHEDULE TO WAKE UP AND GET THAT DAMM CONTROLLER

They should 100% have an allowed purchase amount for a period of time so scalpers when they try to scalp can’t buy 50 in a single go. That at best they can buy 2 and then need to wait 30 days or sumthin. Tho scalpers should just be jailed. Creates artificially generated scarcity and then upsells everything tenfold. It’s literal highway robbery

I managed to get my hands on one thankfully lol

I play pc games on a 2015 Lenovo laptop. Thank you steam, for supporting gaming for us poor people!

Why would I want that? I can just use my gamesir controller that can play in pc and Xbox

hack scalpers? yes

this is why they should just shadow drop them

I couldn’t get one basically immediately after drop

Illegalize Scalpers

Scalping should be banned immediately.

I'd rather wait 10 years for the controller to get back in stock than give scalpers any of my money. Screw them.

What’s scalping I thought That was for Pokemon cards

I like how you think they’re gonna list it for $2000 you’re funny

Put a one per customer on the steam machine please.

We got a ps5 situation on our hands again

Are people really wanting to buy this thing?

I was happy for a second and thought a lot of people ordered online But the moment I saw the scalps, I was furious IMMEDIATELY.

At $1000, no one should buy the steam machine. Especially with the new Xbox coming out soon with the same capability but much more power.

Yeah, they really need to have like a limit system.\nWe like to per person like for so many months

DO NOT BUY ONE FROM THE SCALPERS. WAIT. WAIT UNTIL THEY COME BACK. WAIT THREE YEARS IF YOU HAVE TO. We have to choke those scalpers out. Do. Not. Buy. From. Them.

We need to hunt scalpers and literally scalp them

Probably for the Steam Machine they'll do a similar launch like what they did with the Steam Deck. Since the controller is a controller Valve didn't expect bots maybe?

scalpers need to get scalped

I wish we had another PS5 Pro incident, where scalpers got massively fucked

It would've sold out anyways

To fight the scalpers don't buy from them

Wait till steam sends their assassins😂