Steam Downtime today

Gerard · 11 Oct 2010 at 09:42

Beginning at 4:00 am Pacific time Monday October 11th, we will be performing software maintenance on the Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last four hours, putting the end of the window at 8:00 am Pacific time.

Some Steam services will be offline during this time. Affected services will include the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playable.

We will work to make this downtime as short as possible. Thank you for your patience!

So from about mid-day to 4pm.

Overslop · 11 Oct 2010 at 10:00

I think to some people this news will be like hearing their gran's died.

Wossi · 11 Oct 2010 at 10:23

I take it from reading the above, sp civ5 games are still good to go? Hope so, otherwise I have no idea what I'll do during my lunch hour at work

Rhys-M · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:12

we always seem to get bad downtime at these hours because we are GMT. Gonna play some SP

randal · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:13

So long as it's back up by the time I get home so I can play some L4D2, everything will be OK...

RandomNoob · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:17

Always on a day off work

Locky · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:26

As long as the downtime doesn't upset the Americans, as far as steam is concerned everywhere else can go and **** themselves.

Hodge · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:28

damm was just about to start slinging some nades in codmw.

psychas · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:35

thats one long maintenance

Gerard · 11 Oct 2010 at 14:03

psychas said:
thats one long maintenance

Meh, only hapens the odd time though, compared to what we went through for the beta and release of BC2 its nothing.

jp_bl_68 · 11 Oct 2010 at 14:14

Overslop said:
I think to some people this news will be like hearing their gran's died.

**** grandma, I want to kill zombies.......now!!! :mad:

Limenote · 11 Oct 2010 at 14:43

downtime on my day off waaaah

iviv · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:04

In before people on the steam forums demand compensation from Valve for the time they couldn't play their games online.

Swinbag · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:14

randal24 said:
So long as it's back up by the time I get home so I can play some L4D2, everything will be OK...

this.

thingemajib · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:20

aww diddums

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i have nothing more to say on the matter

deko · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:31

Locky said:
As long as the downtime doesn't upset the Americans, as far as steam is concerned everywhere else can go and **** themselves.

What are they meant to do? Downtime is naturally going to affect somebody in the world, and the US is their biggest market, so it's a no brainer to do it in the middle of the night in the US, especially considering they are based in the US.

Gerard · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:43

deko said:
What are they meant to do? Downtime is naturally going to affect somebody in the world, and the US is their biggest market, so it's a no brainer to do it in the middle of the night in the US, especially considering they are based in the US.

Actually im pretty sure it was reported a while back that theres more pc gamers in Europe.

twist3d0n3 · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:50

WANT

L4D2

NOW

:mad:

Treebiter · 11 Oct 2010 at 15:58

Are people seriously getting upset over a 4-hour downtime? Read a book, wander around town, go to the gym etc. Not really a biggy in the scheme of things is it?

manbearpig · 11 Oct 2010 at 16:04

Aren't people supposed to be at work on a Monday