Attempting Too Many Purchases

[Azari]

So we wait like almost a year for early access on a game, and then the company decides to do a global release for Baldur's Gate 3. Then because Steam is the ONLY platform that can't handle TAKING MY MONEY I would have to wait 30min to 2 hours to start my download on a game that my friends all just started?? This is going to make Steam lose a customer that has spent thousands and would have spent many thousands more. Absolutely screw you for telling me I can't purchase something for 2 additional hours after sitting here staring at my screen for 30min waiting for it to go live, dog crap platform. It wasn't something I did either, the servers couldn't handle people buying the game all at the same time, after hitting "purchase" it'd say working for a while then I'd get an email saying there was an error with my recent steam purchase.

[Malebranche]

"It looks like we were unable to process your order. Please wait a minute and try again." "Sorry, you've tried to make too many purchases in a short time. Please bend over and bit the pillow while we screw you out of the game we couldn't be bothered pre-ordering for."

[Malebranche]

Just go to gog.com ... Steam doesn't want our business for this game it seems.

[crunchyfrog]

Seems there may be some server hiccups at the moment. Seen a few posts like this.

In that case, that's bugger all to do with Valve. It's just how servers work (and fail).

In any case, all you can do is leave it and return later. If it's a wonky server, then it'll get removed from the network soon enough.

Typically, when there's either issues like this or net congestion I leave any purchasing until last thing before I go to bed.

[Stormcrow505]

Same thing happened to me.. I can't purchase anything currently. GOG went through in seconds. Moving my Cyberpunk 2077 Pre-Order to GOG now as well.

[Marder]

All STEAM has to do is to move money form Point A to point B and they screw it up, the only reason STEAM exists. Dont think that appeals will work only the hard reality of lost money works. As long big line go up on Stock market goes up the whole server room can be on fiere and workers die nobody will care, but dare the second investors loose even a cent and all hell is let loose. Only absolute bad publicty and there fore lost profits will bring any change or the total colapse of steam.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Marder:

All STEAM has to do is to move money form Point A to point B and they screw it up, the only reason STEAM exists. Dont think that appeals will work only the hard reality of lost money works. As long big line go up on Stock market goes up the whole server room can be on fiere and workers die nobody will care, but dare the second investors loose even a cent and all hell is let loose. Only absolute bad publicty and there fore lost profits will bring any change or the total colapse of steam.

Nope it does not work like that.

ALL online shops, no matter who they are, use the SAME banking system.

And one of the things with the banking payments system is that the handshake between vendor and bank is pretty short - a mere couple of seconds. It's deliberately kept that short to prevent fraud.

The downside of this though is that if your store is busy and succssful, you'll get failures.

And there's NOTHING that can be done about it from their end.

All you can do is simply wait until later. For myself on days like today, where we're still under the coronavirus lockdown and there's at least one major game release, I save any payments I want to make until verylast thing before I go to bed.


Simple answer - it's unavoidable for these reasons, so if they can't change it, then you CAN avoid it by adjusting your behaviour.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Try not to use your Wallet twice. Use One purchase from wallet one purchase from PayPal or credit card
I also noticed I had to log into the web browser Sream which is normally always logged in.

[kayla4566]

That's what is happening to me now. I put money on my steam wallet and it couldn't even register that I put money in. I was confused so I put the game I wanted in my cart multiple times and now I have to wait. pfft.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by kayla4566:

That's what is happening to me now. I put money on my steam wallet and it couldn't even register that I put money in. I was confused so I put the game I wanted in my cart multiple times and now I have to wait. pfft.

That's usually down to either the banking system or your payment provider.

It's usually only an issue Valve's end when there's serious congestion on their end (like during sales events bi annually).

And it's not just Valve that often do this (though your mileage will vary). as Many online sites will have their own checks for third party providers and so on. They can often be slow.

So if this is an issue for you going forward you might want to think about getting a more recognised provider, like a regular bank or a better one?

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by kayla4566:

I put the game I wanted in my cart multiple times and now I have to wait. pfft.

That's what'll do it.