ITS AUGUST 17 HERE w00t HL 2 Preload :)

[AlaskanStewie]

They are going by Alaska time, it is 11:41 right here now, so we have about 19 minutes. Lets hope Gabe discovered his Alaskan Heratage!

 

[Interl@ce]

Hey don't worry guys, 2 months from now we'll all have forgotten about this 'preloading' thing and will be playing hl2 till we drop !

PS wasn't there some sort of 'special edition' you could buy? 'cuz i'll take the most expensive double platinum gold plated diamond surrounded hl2 package i can get

 

[bliink]

well... if you look at http://www.steampowered.com/status/status.html you will see that bandwidth usage is just returning to normal (i.e. before preload) perhaps they are waiting to have it back to normal before they 'unlock' it?

 

[bliink]

well... if you look at http://www.steampowered.com/status/status.html you will see that bandwidth usage is just returning to normal (i.e. before preload) perhaps they are waiting to have it back to normal before they 'unlock' it?

'Cliffe' says game out in 30 mins

crap... sorry for the double post... i thought i clicked edit.. but the 15 mins must have been up :sniper:

 

[Sparta]

Happy Happy, Joy Joy Mother****er

 

[OCybrManO]

'Cliffe' says game out in 30 mins

Well, you quoted the thread 11 minutes after that guy posted it at steampowered.com... and he had a delay between reading it in IRC and posting it there. So, that means the 30 minutes is up in less than 15 minutes from now, right?

 

[[[LuCkY]]]

It was fake.

 

[Sparta]

Really? nuts, how do you know?

 

[[[LuCkY]]]

Really? nuts, how do you know?

Well, Cliffe's IRC name was 'uglynegro' when you did a /whois....

 

[Kouler]

Come on Valve! You guys can do it! I know you can! I've been waiting all day :O

 

[Head_Crab_04]

"They ran out of steam." :cheese:

 

[AlaskanStewie]

"They ran out of steam." :cheese:

MmmmMMmmmm....steamed ham... *put droplets of drool here*

 

[segobi]

my steam just updated and now it has problems to connect...maybe somethings happening now... :naughty:

 

[Gunner]

Still in "Coming Soon!" :|

 

[Ghost Freeman]

Wait a minute...preloading has begun?

 

[poseyjmac]

no, update happened, and now just can't connect

 

[segobi]

Still in "Coming Soon!" :|

still ? For me it wasn't even in coming soon...

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Steam appears to be down at the moment. Cant' log in.

 

[OCybrManO]

no, update happened, and now just can't connect

Hokay, so... WTF mate?

 

[segobi]

no, update happened, and now just can't connect

it says "updating steam..." but it comes again when you cancel the connection attempts... so i guess it even can NOT download the update for steam...heavy traffic or someone @ valve or it's isp is messing with the servers :cheese:

 

[bliink]

i hope its not kiddies DOS'ing steam
"OMG CSS ISNT OUT YET!!!1111one I WILL PWN j00 SERVERS 2 TEACH j00 4 L3SS0n!!!! + i L0VE WON!!!1111oneeleven DIEEEE STEAMMM!!!!!111"

 

[segobi]

Mystical unexplained network outages:
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/announcement.php?s=&forumid=14

 

[segobi]

hhe.now even the forum is down :hmph: "Steam is currently experiencing network outages. The Forums are offline during this time. "

 

[Machiosabre]

got a steam update a sec ago, no CS:S though ;(

 

[Gunner]

Mystical unexplained network outages:
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/announcement.php?s=&forumid=14

That's the first sign of the forthcoming apocalypse.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

got a steam update a sec ago, no CS:S though ;(

These aren't updates. Everytime you load up steam it checks if there's a new update. Thus you see the "Updating" screen. When there's a network outage it hangs at the "Updating" screen for a bit trying to contact the server but it can't.

It doesn't actually update.

 

[segobi]

These aren't updates. Everytime you load up steam it checks if there's a new update. Thus you see the "Updating" screen. When there's a network outage it hangs at the "Updating" screen for a bit trying to contact the server but it can't.

It doesn't actually update.

k...hope you can live with the thought in your mind that you destroyed the little rest of hope i had for hl2 preload... ;( ;(

 

[Synthaxx R-or]

k...hope you can live with the thought in your mind that you destroyed the little rest of hope i had for hl2 preload... ;( ;(

That, or they're preparing something really REALLY big :thumbs:

Optimisme captain! :cheese:

 

[ferd]

I cant seem to logon to steam either...

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Well at least they have an excuse for the lack of HL2 preload now.

How CONVENIENT!!!

 

[Kouler]

THEY ARE UNLOCKING CS SOURCE!? :O

Lol

 

[Gunner]

Well at least they have an excuse for the lack of HL2 preload now.

How CONVENIENT!!!

Who cares for the HL2 preload, I'm waiting for the CS Beta to go live!

 

[Tork]

lmao Steam is currently experiencing network outages. The Forums are offline during this time.

somethings happening.

 

[Machiosabre]

meh I doubt anythings happening, I can login to steam fine, nothings changing, I doubt they'd be working this early :frog:

 

[Kouler]

Yeh i sorta agree, even though for the past 2 years, i've thought about HL2 at least once every day. Even if its just 'oh look, this place looks like from HL2' or even just random thought of "hl2"

But right now, im just really impatient for CS:Source.

 

[Tork]

I cant even connect, first it said its upadting now it says retry connection. Maybe its nothing but i hope its something.

 

[hunteraz]

It's either a massive DDoS attack, or they're releasing CS:S.

Or it could be something as simple as a router being out. Who knows.

 

[Kouler]

Everyone! Right now, pray that it is CS:Source.

Please let it be that CS:Source is going online.

Amen.

 

[Head_Crab_04]

that was a DUD.

I can log in fine now. :bounce:

 

[Dougy]

everytime i try to connect it says steam or my net connection is down.

and since im typing this on the net im gonna go ahead and say steams the one thats down.