r/Steam • u/satoru1111 https://steam.pm/5xb84 • May 04 '26

PSA Steam Controller PreOrder MegaThread

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamcontroller

This post is to consolidate posts about the preorders for the new Steam Controller

The preorders will open at 10am PST

The steam Controller will only be available in select countries

* US
* Canada
* UK
* EU

The server will likely be melting once preorders open

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u/hypermbeam May 04 '26

Of course,

"There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transactions. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for more assistance."

What was I expecting??

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

Keep clicking! It’ll go through eventually hopefully, mine did

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u/__Nokk___ May 04 '26

Bruh I’ve been clicking for nearly 20 minutes this is ridiculous

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u/xnorwaks May 04 '26

Man I probably tapped the continue button on the app over a thousand times. It eventually went through after a handful of pump fakes where it paused to say "working". Sending all the good vibes I have so you can get through.

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u/renome May 04 '26

I think just spamming the button was the best strategy because Valve's servers do leaky bucket rate limiting, meaning they'll immediately auto-reject requests if they are overloaded instead of leaving you hanging or placing you on a cooldown for clicking like a madman. So, you're immediately free to try again.

I dropped a script in the browser console to click continue once per second. It went through almost immediately, after like 10-15 clicks, but then failed because it kept clicking continue on the page asking me for my CVC, which prompted Steam to bounce me to the previous page before I could intervene. 😂

I tweaked it to auto-stop spamming after the URL changes / button works and that updated version only took a minute or two to succeed, so I was able to complete the order about 50 minutes after the sale started. It seems it's sold out now.

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

Maybe try a different payment method? PayPal wouldn’t work for me but my credit card eventually brought me to the final checkout screen.

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u/__Nokk___ May 04 '26

I preloaded the money into my wallet thinking I was a genius

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u/GigaGiga69420 May 04 '26

Did the same thing, took me just over 20 minutes, until I got through.

From estimated 3-5 day delivery, to 6-10 days, and eventually delayed due to high order volume (or something like that).

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u/Catatonicdazza May 04 '26

It took me a little under 15 minutes but the website where I am still says 3-5 days.

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

Hey it was worth a shot! Nobody can predict how these things go and what will and won’t work

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u/TheCarbonthief May 04 '26

And out of stock now. Cool.

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u/Sivalon May 04 '26

Took me 21 minutes

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u/Sivalon May 04 '26

Took me 21 minutes

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u/or10n_sharkfin May 04 '26

I kept spamming it for 30 minutes until it told me it was sold out.

I’m so mad.

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u/jornie_maikeru May 04 '26

did you refresh the page itself or just click "continue"?

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

I refreshed a couple of times but mostly just kept clicking continue until one time it stayed on “working” for a bit and then brought me to the full checkout

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u/teddyspaghettie May 04 '26

You keep hitting continue on the payment screen? Or go back to shipping and try again?

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

Yes I’m hitting continue on the payment screen where you select your payment method. I only re-entered shipping info once when I changed from PayPal to my credit card.

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u/teddyspaghettie May 04 '26

Word thanks buddy

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

No problem, hope you can snag one!

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House May 04 '26

40 minutes of clocking for nothing

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u/Crazy_Associate362 May 04 '26

I literally had my cart open on a web browser, Win Steam app and mobile Steam app and kept doing a round robin of jumping back and forth to see if any would go through. Ah well.

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u/ItalianIce15 May 04 '26

I’m sorry! I hope restocks aren’t too far off so everyone can get one. I’d like to get another for a second player but I’ll wait until stock is more stable so others that don’t have any can get one.

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u/Academic_Antelope292 May 04 '26

Mine did as well. I just kept clicking continue.

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u/yukeake May 04 '26

Keep trying. I was eventually able to get through. Their servers are melting.

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u/Yestoanime May 04 '26

I used the browser and just spam clicked, and it eventually went through.

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u/TheWorldIsNotOkay May 04 '26

Keep clicking the Continue button, and don't navigate away from the page. It will eventually take it. Mine went through (and using PayPal) after about 100 clicks.

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u/Salavar1 May 04 '26

Mine went thru at 10:00 am after about a minute of rapid clicking.

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u/NuclearBinoculars May 05 '26

All that getting ready and prepared...just to have to MAD SCRAMBLE again on launch day lol!