Steam down again?

Swifty123 · 9 Jun 2010 at 22:26

There has been quite a lot of maintenance going on yesterday, only thing I noticed was a change in steam chat

Soya · 10 Jun 2010 at 00:54

SiriusB said:
Wow, nerd-rage much?

So it goes down for a few hours. Breathe. Go outside.

Actually I tend to agree with his assessment, been with steam since the start but since this year its service and connectivity has gone right down the pan, not to mention the ongoing problems with l4d2 and its dire server connectivity. Overall, taking in account all my experience with steam and that it must have made them plenty of cash over the years, its gone from a decent platform to a steaming pile of crap and you can quote me on that.

Not venting just stating my years of experience with it and expressing my opinion, not impressed at all. l4d2 was the last game I purchase from/through them, I won't be getting any more from/through steam, period.

Alex74 · 10 Jun 2010 at 01:03

Soya said:
Actually I tend to agree with his assessment, been with steam since the start but since this year its service and connectivity has gone right down the pan, not to mention the ongoing problems with l4d2 and its dire server connectivity. Overall, taking in account all my experience with steam and that it must have made them plenty of cash over the years, its gone from a decent platform to a steaming pile of crap and you can quote me on that.

Not venting just stating my years of experience with it and expressing my opinion, not impressed at all. l4d2 was the last game I purchase from/through them, I won't be getting any more from/through steam, period.

Daymn..havent had any problems this year myself.

Most annoying thing i've ever had is steam minimising a game to inform me about an update. Shame that you've had these problems, but i think (only from going by people on the forums) most people have had a perfectly reasonable experience with the service. Hopefully you're the exceptions to the general rule

A service like steam can't be up 24/7, has to be some downtime

alex24 · 10 Jun 2010 at 01:11

I agree, the service is fine, I don't expect it to be on 24/7. Now off to get owned as usual in DoD:S.

unknownsock · 10 Jun 2010 at 10:41

Steam friends seems to fail everynight now too. It used to be rare.
I don't get it? Wasn't this s***** beta tested..

Swifty123 · 10 Jun 2010 at 11:30

not gone down for me i don't think for a couple of days

'Wes · 10 Jun 2010 at 11:31

Locky said:
still down for me, I ****ing hate steam, pile of crap.

Lol.

SiriusB · 10 Jun 2010 at 11:54

Soya said:
Actually I tend to agree with his assessment, been with steam since the start but since this year its service and connectivity has gone right down the pan, not to mention the ongoing problems with l4d2 and its dire server connectivity. Overall, taking in account all my experience with steam and that it must have made them plenty of cash over the years, its gone from a decent platform to a steaming pile of crap and you can quote me on that.

Not venting just stating my years of experience with it and expressing my opinion, not impressed at all. l4d2 was the last game I purchase from/through them, I won't be getting any more from/through steam, period.

I have no problems at all with Steam. I couldn't play a multiplayer game of Chaos Rising the other day. So I shrugged and did something else. Steam isn't perfect and there will be downtime - but people like Locky who blow out a few veins because they can't play a game are, frankly, idiots.

arc@css · 10 Jun 2010 at 13:52

It took a while to log in and connect but once in it was fine. Mind you, I only played a little css for about an hour and only on one server so my experience, as most week nights, is very time limited.

phill1978 · 10 Jun 2010 at 16:29

SiriusB said:
I have no problems at all with Steam. I couldn't play a multiplayer game of Chaos Rising the other day. So I shrugged and did something else. Steam isn't perfect and there will be downtime - but people like Locky who blow out a few veins because they can't play a game are, frankly, idiots.

well.. not really.

when youve been at work all day and have free`d up some gaming time from the family or perhaps usual chores and fire up your VERY expensive constantly needing $$$ and updates top end pc the one thing you want is to be able to play your games.. y'know the ones you have paid for

an offline mode is welcome TBH, if you have payed for games an run through steam and the game is locked to steam then why can they let you play when its offline?

seriously there was 2.4 million people on steam the other day, the number is growing.

steam / valve are making money on every one of the 2.4 million purchases over the recent months more and more money right?

and so is each download can make between £1 or £0.50P then there making about £20million a year if not more.

now ive worked on servers and systems and have experience of 24hr services that need to be maintained such as the health care industry and its not impossible to have planned changes where your primary servers keep the strain whilst you secondary are updated..

furthermore power issues can be largely contained also.

so they have the resources to have a huge VMware cluster or massive multiple SAN`s etc.. with FULL multiple redundancies

why should it go down at all? :confused:

My opinion is that valve are going to have to accept that they are now a massive successful multinational company (bit like an online tesco`s) and need to behave and adapt to this new resizing of their organization instead of acting like a software house.