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The effort to squash unlicensed controllers hurts plenty of paying customers, and might not even achieve its goals

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Laughable selling this as “Improving gamer experience” breaking another existing standard.

Saying this especially from the DIY angle where custom controllers are kinda the thing.

Also lol because “competitive” gameplay. Gear always wins the day - just like in meat space.

Ah well, one good thing may come from this: Plenty of cheaper second hand controllers that I may buy as replacements to connect to my Steam Link. This one isn’t too picky when it comes to controllers. My current mix on that is a Steam Controller, a Wii-U controller and some no-name “works-on-all” wireless controller.

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