Steam Outage (stop making threads and read me!)

[bliink]

Yes, currently, there is a steam outage that is affecting large numbers of people.
Its received a fair bit of attention and will be fixed ASAP by valve.

Apparently, one of the master servers is down, and all accounts tied to it will not work.

So be calm, and stop with all the panic-posting!

 

[Apos]

Could it have crashed when they tried to install VAC2?

 

[Spaz_McNasty]

i wish

 

[beam]

From www.steampowered.com

Yes as is pretty clear from what you've read or from the fact you can't get Steam started, something isn't quite right at the moment. Some accounts are able to log in right now, and some aren't.

Please be assured that if you are having problems, it is only temporary and your accounts have not been lost or damaged or otherwise compromised.

I have received word that it's being worked on, and the Steam crew hope to have things back to normal for those with problems very soon.

 

[Zelnaga]

Unoffical announcment of the problem?

There was no sign of responses from Valve staff or forum moderators

Almost more than 12 hours since the problem occured. I can see why (like me) most steam users are pretty much hacked off, at Valve.

I hope they burn for this, get humilliated, whatever. So long as they learn from this damn mistake and avoid the problem next time round.

 

[peterhoang2002]

sweet, seems to work now for me. no more turning my comp off for a while.

 

[destrukt]

- just - started working for me, woot.

 

[Varsity]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=237958

Announcement of problem and fix.

 

[michaelsil1]

Computers aren't perfect, look who runs them.