Found the reason, I think... here and NZL

I'm seeing a new record here.

Giving you a 50% off coupon to Sparkle 2 Evo (that's all I have) if you find out WHY does this happen. It's valid until 9:17 PM here (it's about half hour 3 minutes 1 minute 10 seconds)

Edit1: it's higher
Edit2: it's HIGHER

Update (Just in case you are wondering how many users were on Steam on 31 December, 1969 @ 4:00pm)

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9 years ago*

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it could've been more if Jeff showed up

9 years ago
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O_O !!

9 years ago
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I'm trying to look at the new weekly deals, but it just keeps saying 'sorry - the steam store is experiencing some heavy load right now'. Is there a price glitch on Barbie Dreamhouse Party or something?

9 years ago
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It's even worse. It's on Bad Rats!

9 years ago
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good lord, explains why steam's so f**** slow

9 years ago
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one sec, i will call my friends and family to go online

9 years ago
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lol!

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good one :-D

9 years ago
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Call your cat too!

9 years ago
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Ah, that's why it keeps telling me the store is under heavy load and to try again.

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Damn, is it Summer Sale already or what? I can't imagine why such a big amount of people would just randomly visit the Store page ...
A DDOS, maybe? That many people don't just visit Steam for no reason.

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Any partiuclar reason why it's happened?

And yes, I'm another who found it very slow for the past 2 or 3 hours. 2 separate purchases got stuck in "pending" status and I ended up cancelling them 'case as I was impatient. Managed to get one through in the end but not the other.

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current peak     

Concurrent Steam Users: 9,222,164 9,222,164

:D

9 years ago
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New record. O_O

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How many are bots? ;)

9 years ago
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Everyone except me.

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What? That means I'm a bot too? But I thought I was human .... tzzz cpu blown

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Descartes would be proud of you

9 years ago
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Hmm, perhaps the servers are experiencing some serious lag and counting everyone trying to load the store multiple times as different users? If not... QUICK, everyone find out what game is having a pricing error before they fix it! :P

9 years ago
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No spammed GAs, if steamgifters didn't find it, who did?

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Well, it MAY be a pricing error: I can't access the "Below 5€" games nor the discounted ones. :|

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                                            current peak     

Concurrent Steam Users: 9,244,267 9,300,698

new one:D

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There was a stupid rumour going around that the Summer Sale was supposed to start today (completely forgetting the fact that it is still Spring). That might be one reason for the site struggling but I'm hedging my bets on DDoS since you would think folks would realize that was false after the first hour.

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I doubt Steam doesn't have some form of DDoS protection, DoS attacks are easy to make, VERY EASY

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Meh considering they have shit support, I wouldn't put it pass them to have a toaster running their site.

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Seriously doubting any glitch or DDoS though, the number increased constantly, there is no spike anywhere.
Probably some communist country is now allowing Steam and it's silently launching there.

9 years ago
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Well, Winter Sales start in Autumn, so why not? :P

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Only by a few days though. It's still a month until Summer.

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I know. Just screwing around.

9 years ago
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Well, Steam loves to glitch out right now...

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Not a huge glitch! When the residen evil pack was for about $1 for New Zealanders... now THAT was a glitch

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Quick! To the Steam mobile!

Also, to be a concurrent steam user you need to actually play something or just have the client open?

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dammit. I seriously want to know what's happening atm.

steam is hacked ?!111

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It better not be the summer sale. I don't have any money.

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You could still buy that.

9 years ago
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LPT: Don't

9 years ago
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That perfectly captures the feeling right now.

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edit: Oops, wrong tab

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lol, edit it back, now I'm curious.

Edit: I saw it before the edit.

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What was there before the edit?

9 years ago
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Something about an Australian comedy/romance movie

9 years ago
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A suggestion of the movie Danny Deckchair that was meant to be posted to another thread.

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People are so curious about what they can't see

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Well, I saw the post, is the movie good?

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I watched the movie recently on Netflix and enjoyed it. I do not generally enjoy romances or comedies. The characters were well defined and likeable, the scenes were well done. The story was formulaic but very few movies aren't. I consider it time well spent and would have been happy even had I rented it from RedBox for a buck.

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There is an ongoing DDOS attack pointed to USA. Maybe it's the one affecting Steam, maybe not. But it does seem to be fairly recent, started about an hour ago.

9 years ago
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I guess LOL fans are angry at DOTA2 :P

9 years ago
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=0 My friend just bought two Batman games but it didn't Work =/. Steam really should add one more day to the sale or something ='(

9 years ago
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Well, that are called weekend deals, it they would add day it wouldn't be weekend...

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But well, he tried to buy it in the weekend, so they really should do this. I mean people are trying to give Valve money, but they can't due to technical problems. He isn't going to buy it, when it isn't on sale. This isn't usually happening, so I really think they could do something unusual and add another day to the sale.

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He tried since Friday without success? That sounds more like issue with bank or something then Steam.

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No, he tried today. Like two hours before the sale ended.

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Read "Summer sale"
go searching for anything Elder scrolls realted
cries

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Why wont you let me type like if i was on 4chan SG... WHY!!!!? ;-;

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