Quote Originally Posted by Kio View Post
Sorry, I wasn't certain where this was appropriate to ask.

I was curious as to why I can reconnect a controller which has gone to sleep in the many log in screens but not while actually in game.
Probably because the current game engine/interface has so many flaws. I bet it will be solved in 2.0 though, hopefully.
Have you tried playing in windowed mode and try to reconnect (wake up) your controller then? Maybe it will work.