The store is working fine here (France) but I can't connect, neither through Chrome nor the client.
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Interesting. I, and others I've spoken to, have noticed various weird errors on Steam the past few days [eg, white screens with odd error messages on them]. Makes me wonder if something was quirking and finally escalated to a critical point.
Just reconnected and started working again a minute ago for me, though.
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was playing and some achievement didn't unlock today too
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Bump for an nginx 502 Bad Gateway.
Whee!
[edit] aaand, seems to be back. short one there, at least! [/edit]
[edit2] May or may not have had something to do with Destiny 2 access being granted to those who'd ported their game over to Steam. Just noticed that was new in my library sometime between now and four hours ago. [/edit2]
[edit3] Or it's as NB264 posted below! Didn't know regular maintenance day had changed! [/edit3]
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weeeeeee! down the rabbit hole (jk, it's regular maintenance just moved from Tuesday for some reason, I read it somewhere the other day)
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Whatever it is, Steam is (still) bouncing up and down like a basketball.
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Destiny 2 launches tomorrow 10 am Pacific, 1 Pm Eastern. If you're lucky enough to get in on launch, I hope you enjoy it!
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I was thinking Destiny 2 as well. That's a bunch of people all hitting the servers at once, pre-loading for tomorrow's launch.
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I don't think it's maintenance. Steam has come back online and offline several times.
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Steam has come back online and offline several times.
For about two weeks now, I think, it's just gotten a lot more noticable these past couple of days.
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And valve is so nice to protect us to not spend too much money? aka no money :P
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They already did a lot to protect us from spending money by making sure we couldn't gift games from their store, now they're just going the extra mile.
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Funnily, the only person I have not been able to gift games to is myself, haven't had problems with other people. :)
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I can't give most games to EU regions because of regional pricing.
Makes using wallet on SG difficult.
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I can give most games from EU because of just that. It's very rare to find some random region with higher prices.
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Or Gaben is too cheap to rent another server for the sales because he knows people will f5 until it works to spend their money.
It's an ancient tradition as well, sales wouldn't feel the same if Steam worked during them.
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Can Gabe buy some more goddamn servers for fucks sake they have made billions off of steam
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Wit h millions of people flooding the main page I don't think any servers would work, unless you want them to invest atleast 50% or more into making servers, I'm assuming Steam are working to fix it as we speak...
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I don't know what people expect, this happens every few months when sales start and goes back to normal a few hours after.
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FRIENDS NETWORK UNREACHABLE
This failure may indicate that your local network is offline or that the Steam Friends servers are currently offline.
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Just got a "There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account" message after trying to activate one key one time. LOL.
I imagine the last minute buyers (myself included) are putting a bit of a strain on the servers.
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then that's not the reason :P, still down
https://steamstat.us/
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"Basic routine maintenance" is Tuesdays, but that hasn't ever limited them in also doing server-affecting work any other day of the week, and they've been especially emphatic about such unscheduled events ever since the last interface update. In fact, I was surprised by last Tuesday (or was it the one before?) actually causing me issues, since for the past (3?) months since the interface update I'd basically only been getting them on non-Tuesday days.
Well, in fairness, I can only speak to downtimes, large-scale crashes, and large-scale client issues (that is to say, things I can confirm happened to other friends list individuals online at the time), and to the timing of the "you need to restart client" notices I've received. I guess those could be faulty server issues and delayed update notifications, respectively, so it doesn't strictly require them to be related to maintainence or updates.
At the very least, we can confirm that today's downtime isn't unusual [whether it was intended or not], even though the length of it certainly seems to be abnormally long.
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