It'd be a tough claim to say I'm disappointed, as the technical fiasco today was completely predictable and expected. But, I did get my hopes up a little, only to have them dashed.

The reason I got my hopes up though is that this time the site loaded normally, pages rendered quickly, buttons worked, so it gave the illusion that Steam might be functional this time around. As you probably know, normally when a sale starts or new hardware goes on sale, the site just stops working, bugs out, slows to a crawl, etc.

Unfortunately, after getting the controller in my cart, the checkout failed at the payment processing step. I tried a few different payment methods. I tried on a few different devices. No luck.

After stepping away for a little bit, I took a peek and saw that the controllers hadn't sold out yet. I figured I'd try it again. Still broke at the payment step, but this time there was a different error message than the one which showed up initially. I decided to remove the controller from my cart and see if it would work after re-adding it. Only when I went back to the controller landing page, it now said that these things are out of stock.

A little bit after that I saw a post here on Lemmy saying something along the lines of "if you have the controller in your cart but couldn't check out earlier, try it now, it will work." So that was kind of a final "fuck you" to me.