In my experience, loading up the steam wallet with the money beforehand helped my controller order go through immediately. It will be an absolute pain to add that much to the steam wallet for such a big purchase though.

From what I am gathering, the main issue is with the payment processor handling the volume of orders. If you can sidestep that by having the funds already, then you might have better chances

Not that it absolves them of their bullshit, but you can set their router to bridge mode and use your own. It still removes the bandwidth limit.

It is a PITA to set up bridging though, thanks to their fuckery with the software. Fuck comcast

Have y’all tried the recent quake brutalism map jam? Lots of great maps are still being made!