CRC Contact Cleaner does just that, it cleans the contacts. This stuff
has been around for decades and decades. This is what you used to clean
the contacts on an old rotary TV channel selector. The contacts get
dirty from use, the CRC cleans them.
Do not know if the first answer posted... I used some electronic contact
cleaner. Sprayed it in and around the joystick, they moved it around to
work the cleaner in. This seems to have fixed the problem.
This same thing started to happen to me. When I am playing Onward, the
left joy stick is movement. I will hold the joy stick to one side to
move, if I release it, it physically goes to the center, but my avatar
will drift to the right (keep moving). ...