The encore of the Steam sale was today, and I picked up Borderlands: Game of the Year edition for seven dollars (great deal), but whenever I click to install it I get an error that the servers are "too busy to handle your request". Is this just a temporary issue given the high traffic of downloads due to the sale, or could this be an issue with something else?

The servers are busy. Lots of games being bought, just wait a few hours.

The servers are busy. Lots of games being bought, just wait a few hours.

@Badhands said:

The servers are busy. Lots of games being bought, just wait a few hours.

It's this.

Just wait a few hours/days.

Do what I do, keep clicking install until it works. Fuck waiting.

Yep, I'm getting nothing.

Yes. But after 5 minutes it worked like normal.

I just waited a bit and it worked.

It always happens during these sales. They're just temporarily overloaded with download requests. Keep trying. You'll get through.

Thanks for the feedback, guys! I had bought plenty of stuff during Steam sales prior and never had this issue, so I assumed maybe my computer / the client had a technical issue.