Valve\u2019s new Steam Controller sold out quickly when it went on sale on Monday, and the company is going to open a \u201creservations queue\u201d on Friday at 1PM ET for anyone who missed that initial run.<\/p>\n
When the controller initially went on sale<\/a>, many potential buyers experienced difficulties checking out<\/a> before the controller went out of stock<\/a>, and some sellers on eBay posted listings for the controllers that were considerably more expensive<\/a> than Valve\u2019s $99 asking price. \u201cWhile we were happy to see such a high level of interest, the experience for a lot of you trying to buy it was incredibly frustrating,\u201d Valve says<\/a>. It\u2019s making changes to \u201cimprove the purchase experience and to limit reseller activity.\u201d<\/p>\n After the reservations queue is open, \u201cOnce you reserve, your place in line will be saved,\u201d according to Valve. \u201cWhen we go back in stock, order emails will be sent in the same order that reservations were made.\u201d When your order email comes in, you\u2019ll have 72 hours to complete the purchase, and you\u2019ll only be able to buy one controller. To make a reservation, your account must be in good standing and you must have bought something on Steam before April 27th. And \u201cfor now,\u201d if you\u2019ve already bought a Steam Controller, you can\u2019t reserve another. The company says it will begin fulfilling reservations \u201cnext week\u201d in the US and Canada, and in the \u201cfollowing weeks\u201d in the UK, the EU, and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s new Steam Controller sold out quickly when it went on sale on Monday, and the company is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,117,7894,19,17,5,13535,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-473474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gaming","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pc-gaming","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116534803691076213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}