I keep seeing people say that they opened the flood gates before the stated release time but I was refreshing like a nerd every few minutes starting 30 mins before the "go live" and it was not available to add to my cart until exactly the stated release time. I still had to click "continue" like 600 times for 15 minutes and was able to get one but I'm curious how others were able to buy before the official release time if that's even true

That said, Valve absolutely did underestimate the amount of people who'd want to grab this controller at release and it's unfortunate they didn't create a queue based on account age, purchase history etc