# Steam: Your account creation request failed, please try again later.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-your-account-creation-request-failed-please-try-again-later/568734>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 24, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-your-account-creation-request-failed-please-try-again-later/568734 "2011-01-24T03:17:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-your-account-creation-request-failed-please-try-again-later/568734/1 "2011-01-24T03:17:31Z")

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OK, tried multiple times to create an account, and believe that despite their best efforts to make the graphic characters that I’m supposed to reproduce illegible, I am getting them right. Still I always get this message:

**Your account creation request failed, please try again later.**

Y’know folks, I really think that if you really won’t tell me anything specific about why you’re having a technical problem, that’s a sure sign that you know as much about technology as I know about how to tie a square knot in an infinitely small dimension. So I gotta turn to the Dope… anybody else encounter this, and what does one do? :mad:

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**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-your-account-creation-request-failed-please-try-again-later/568734/2 "2011-01-24T03:34:20Z")

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From [Steam Support :: Information for New Users](https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7141-OPGX-5121)

> [@](#):
>
> If you encounter issues when creating an account through the Steam Store, please try creating a Steam account using the Steam client/software:
> 
> ```
> Download and run the installer for Steam from http://store.steampowered.com/about
> Click the "Create a new Account..." button from the Steam login page and follow the prompts
> 
> ```

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**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-your-account-creation-request-failed-please-try-again-later/568734/3 "2011-01-24T06:19:49Z")

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> [@BorgHunter](#):
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> From [Steam Support :: Information for New Users](https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7141-OPGX-5121)

Yeah, that seems to be what I needed to do. Note for future job interviews: state that I do in fact make such troubleshooting details explicit, and would happily **fire** anyone who wouldn’t be bothered.