AngmarsKing701
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They're preparing for the updated sale prices at 1pm ET.
Steam Winter Sale 2016 thread of hoping for better deals elsewhere
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They're preparing for the updated sale prices at 1pm ET.
Well, I am 'angry' with Steam and Valve for the very reasons described. As I said above, you seem to think my complaints were, well, funny, but I don't think of it as a joke at all. I'm not sure if it's inevitable that what happened had to happen, maybe Steam could've done more to try and keep things they way they were, who knows.
But, again, at the end of the day, as someone who's spending money on THEIR service, I'm not the one who has to worry on whether or not they lowered their heads to the evil greedy publishers. That's on them. The practical effect of what happened is that, for the last two years, Steam has been a little bubble where I can only ever interact with my other brazilian friends, and the rest of the whooooole world out there is just *there*. A friend in Portugal, a country where I lived for several years, is celebrating his birthday? Oh, cool, I'll gift them a gam-- well, I won't.
Hey, it's Christmas! Time to get some games to raffle on GAF, that's cool, gotta share the love for Falc-- oh, I can't, because <changes>.
See, I understand "evil publishers" are a thing, but at the end of the day, it's not "Origin" or "Uplay". It's Steam. If they didn't want it to happen and couldn't stop it, that's too bad, but I'm not going to be happy about something that really hurts my experience as a costumer. As previously stated, it's also made me start spending much, much less money on the platform ever since it happened. I must be the exception, though, as business goes on just like always, but hey...
Seriously why would you even expect that? It just came out.
Nabs
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It just came out.
Maybe it was, and then Valve took their own servers offline as a precaution?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It wasn't my credit card that leaked, just my email address, name, and potentially physical address -- I didn't have a credit card on Steam to begin with. I'm still living at the same address and no one has murdered me yet, but I did switch email domains. Valve's response was completely dissatisfactory, so I stopped actually spending money on Steam for around 6 months and now I basically don't buy anything online unless I can use Paypal.
hardcastlemccormick
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Service outages happen for literally every company. There's nothing you can do to prevent them 100%. Steam has a pretty good track record, aside from maintenance they don't go down very often.
Just, like, have some perspective.
What word though? It's a DDOS attack that has been going for like 2 hours, what is there to say?
Baron von Loathsome
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It's a great boring VR game?
Something like a short tweet akin to "Currently experience DDOS attacks. Back Online ASAP" wouldn't be too much to ask for instead of complete silence.
hardcastlemccormick
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Does Abzu even support VR? I'd check but Steam is down.
Do find it odd the small company I buy household products off have a presence/feedback/etc presence on Facebook and other social media however Valve/ the Steam team which is a service does not.
I'm not sure why we think it's fine for the silence, it's a basic customer service? (And surely they employ people for customer service outside of the server teams in reply to the person stating they're working to get it back up; especially with the money they pull in).
Not a massive deal, just an odd way for a company pulling in this amount of money to act.
I'm not sure why we think it's fine for the silence, it's a basic customer service? (And surely they employ people for customer service outside of the server teams in reply to the person stating they're working to get it back up; especially with the money they pull in).
Not a massive deal, just an odd way for a company pulling in this amount of money to act.
How can you sure they haven't leaked your personal data now? Maybe that's why Valve shut the servers down?
That's not an official word though is it? It's our conjecture based on what we've gleamed from the net. An official comment would be nice
Stevey
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But why?
Everyone knows something like that is happening, it wouldnt get STEAM back up any quicker, so whats the point?
Communication is good.
Telling us they're aware and working on it is always good to know. For all we know, no one at Valve is aware because they're all in Hawaii.
Wok
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Crimsonclaw111
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You say one thing as a half joke against Nintendo and suddenly you're Alex Jones. Never change, fanboys.
Since Steam is down let's all mosey over to... Battlenet I guess?
Since Steam is down let's all mosey over to... Battlenet I guess?
I care because I'd like to know why it's down and how long I'm going to have to wait before I can resume building my cart to purchase stuff, activate keys etc.?
That's just your assumption, not the official reason Steam is down.
Can you guys stop acting like fanboys for once when it comes to Steam?
Just a reminder: from today to 25 you can play Death Star for free if you own Battlefront. Even if you own the EA Access version you can try it, there's also a double exp week-end.
Thus said, I don't really understand how EA can charge so much money for DLC like this. I played three maps, two of them are stellar fights with X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter, one is on the Death Star, another in the space with a Star Destroyer. The third map is inside a base and it's a normal firefight.
It feels really poor, those contents should be free with EA charcing for cosmetic stuff, it's insane those maps are not even included in the normal game but you need to access each DLC via a menu.
Anyway this Steam down is really bad. I have only a couple of hours to play each day, I can't play tomorrow because I work, can't play on 25 for christmas stuff with parents, so...bah.
Thus said, I don't really understand how EA can charge so much money for DLC like this. I played three maps, two of them are stellar fights with X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter, one is on the Death Star, another in the space with a Star Destroyer. The third map is inside a base and it's a normal firefight.
It feels really poor, those contents should be free with EA charcing for cosmetic stuff, it's insane those maps are not even included in the normal game but you need to access each DLC via a menu.
Anyway this Steam down is really bad. I have only a couple of hours to play each day, I can't play tomorrow because I work, can't play on 25 for christmas stuff with parents, so...bah.
Because I want to know whether it's something internal or external
Because I want to know whether I should be worried about my data
Because I want to know if they have an estimate as to when it's back up again
Maybe stop with the childish drama. It's really not a big deal.
VeteranGamer
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You can't be serious...
Wow at this insane outage. Suddenly I don't feel like a lazy sellout for giving up on trying to get Mass Effect 2 with DLC set up properly on Steam and just going with the Origin version.
This is the only time in my life I will ever get to say this, so I'm going to take the opportunity: Haha, suck it, Steam losers! Glorious Origin is still up and I can play my game just fine! Origin and uPlay master race!
This is the only time in my life I will ever get to say this, so I'm going to take the opportunity: Haha, suck it, Steam losers! Glorious Origin is still up and I can play my game just fine! Origin and uPlay master race!
Either it's a DDOS or the servers are simply down and they are working on putting them back up again. I fail to see how communication would make the matter any better or different.
I'm playing my games right now.
You can't steal anyone's data with a DDOS.
This is more than mere anecdote on your part how?
What do you think a third situation is, then?
pretty done
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You can't expect anything more from the Steam Community on GAF. People here sure do love GabeN, like Sony ppl love Kaz and Nintendos love Reggi.
WinterDemons
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Wonder how long it'll take to get back up. :V
AngmarsKing701
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they changed it to 2 per day
Glad I set Steam up in offline mode on my newly installed laptop. I usually don't buy anything befoe christmas just in case. It will probably be up again before that.
You get one for voting too.
I havn't even the remotest idea. But with that in mind, I'm also not saying people should just forget about it and that wanting to hear from the company currently experiencing a service disruption during their busiest time of the year is somehow not reassuring or going to change anything for those people
No more 2x Discovery Queue + 1x Award Vote today?
You get 1 for voting, and 2 for going through games queue.
Nemesis121
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They have to make sure everything is secure on their end, my guess 5-6 hours...
Oh, might have missed the award vote card, damn
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