Steam Store is offline(steamstat.us)
66 pointsby DetectDefect13 hours ago8 comments
  • Thaxll13 hours ago
    Fun to be on call December 24th.
  • DamnInteresting9 hours ago
    Among my circle of friends, many have a tradition of playing multiplayer games after the kiddos are asleep and the presents are prepared. It makes me wonder whether this has increasingly become a common tradition, and as a consequence the hug this year is more than even Steam could bear. This is pure speculation, of course.

    Since I'm indulging in luxurious speculation: maybe Valve has taken Steam down to prepare to announce Half Life 3 tomorrow.

  • vondur13 hours ago
    Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app. Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
    • jordand13 hours ago
      Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth too
    • lomase13 hours ago
      Maybe that is why is down.

      On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.

  • imagetic12 hours ago
    It’s Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting crushed.

    Good hunting.

    • stockresearcher11 hours ago
      Next year, keep in mind that you can buy games as gifts and then schedule them to be delivered to the recipient account at some point in the future. So you know, buy ahead of time, like normal gifting…
      • esseph9 hours ago
        But they still get crushed in the download like everyone else
  • reactordev13 hours ago
    Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
    • The_President8 hours ago
      Up to 29 strands or 1 server rack supported and if a bulb goes out the rest stay lit, but if you lose a drive in the RAID the whole thing folds.
    • spwa412 hours ago
      Yeah but I couldn't find an empty socket so just unplugged a few other things. It works now.

      The Christmas lights I mean.

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  • Insanity12 hours ago
    Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though!

    Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.

    • remram10 hours ago
      Their regular maintenance window is Tuesdays, and there are often issues then.
      • Insanity6 hours ago
        Ohh, adult life shielded me from those outages. Guess I don’t get a lot of weekday gaming time.
  • theandrewbailey13 hours ago
    > There have been 160,000 page views on this site in the past hour, this indicates an issue with Steam.

    Number of page views on a "is it down" page is not necessarily indicative of a problem. Not being able to connect to the service in question is.

    • jtrn12 hours ago
      And more people turning up at the clinic doesn’t mean there are more sick people, but it’s an indication.

      Funny that you ignored “indicates,” which is a perfectly valid inference here, and also it’s true.

      If you want to be pedant, don’t self-own.

    • kube-system12 hours ago
      People visit these sites when they have problems. A large number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with an issue with the service.
    • Dylan1680712 hours ago
      I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict here.