so far, ive seen my controller drop a whopping 1 bar... and i played almost all the way through resistance on 1 charge, other than the random updating when it asks you to plug in the controller, thats it. i charged it today, took all of 15-20 mins max to be fully charged again. so i dont see where the big deal is. you cant possible kill the controllers charge that fast. if anyone has a sony camera, use that cable to charge it also if its that bad. and charging off your pc FTW. 360 charged the same way, youd get maybe 2 or 3 mins of charge before it would stop itself if the system was off... atleast mine did.