balladofwindfishes
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Every website owned by Valve is currently down.
Nobody seems to know why.
Nobody seems to know why.
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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
steampowered and valvesoftware.com are down for me. Store isn't loading in the client either:
balladofwindfishes
Member
It seems to be region based. I can't get on any Valve site, and a few others I'm chatting with have mixed results. Some can, and some can't.
There doesn't seem to be a pattern. I hope they fix this soon :/
There doesn't seem to be a pattern. I hope they fix this soon :/
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Everything is up for me, I was "disconnected" a while ago though.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Everything is back up for me now. Weird.
EDIT: ...and down again. lol
EDIT: ...and down again. lol
balladofwindfishes
Member
well, whatever that outage was, it's done now.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
What is this crap about Ubisoft free games? Seems that was the problem, I think. Don't take my word for it, I dunno what's up.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Ubisoft giving out free steam games!?Sgt.Pepper said:
LocoMrPollock
Banned
Sysgen said:
Good deal.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
No, seems there was a glitch where you could get a game without any paying info on your account.balladofwindfishes said:
Just saw something about it in 4chan, and Twitter.
Edit: A guy had a screen where his friends bought an Ubisoft game.
Joe Molotov
Member
Ettie said:
Both. The Price Tracker is a list of permanent price drops, but they also have a list of sales too.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Ok, cool.balladofwindfishes said:
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
.Link Your Profile with Facebook and Find Your Friends on Steam said:
And Jamestown Update.
TF2 too, but no patch notes yet.
chixdiggit
Member
When did Bulletstorm get a price drop? Is it worth it for $29? When is the Summer sale again?
chixdiggit said:
i would say Bulletstorm is definitely worth $29. single player was very well done, multiplayer was fun for a little while, but got kinda old after a bit.
still ...worthy of $29, imo.
there's also a good chance of it going on sale during Steam's summer sale, so i'd wait to see what happens there. the summer sale should start around the end of june, i believe?
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
You get 500 points for shooting a mini-boss up the asshole, which causes him to to release a flaming fart.chixdiggit said:
chixdiggit
Member
SapientWolf said:
Seems like it's worth four times the asking price. I might as well wait a couple weeks and catch up on some backlog.
Dog Problems
Banned
This week wasn't bad for me. I bought Jamestown and Dead Rising 2.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Donos said:
The demo was just awful so I doubt many bought it.
jaundicejuice
Member
Red Faction 2 Fun Fact: Jason Statham does the voice-over for Shrike, one of the nano-super soldiers you're in a squad with.
Man, Red Faction 2 is awful. I've played through Red Faction, Guerrilla and Armageddon and thought I would give RF2 another shot since I got a free copy for pre-ordering Armageddon on Steam but it's so awful. The environments are ridiculously cramped and small, there's a constant deluge of loading screens breaking up the experience and there are distinct levels which break away from the first games Half-Life styled presentation. To make matters worse the enemy a.i. is completely retarded, the animation is awful, the environments look worse and the destruction is incredibly nerfed and limited. Red Faction 2 is a step back in almost every conceivable way from the first game and you can't really point the blame at the consoles of the time because the first Red Faction was a PS2 launch title. Soooo what the hell went wrong with this game's development?
Since I'm already a third of the way through it in little over an hour (!) going by the FAQ I glanced at, I might suffer through the rest of it.
The plot doesn't even make sense, the Red Faction are on earth and this group of nano-super soldiers, that you play one of, used to be under the employ of the despot you're now fighting. Your squad are guns for hire working for martian revolutionaries on earth? The nano-tech used to make these super soldiers was stolen from Ultor by the EDF? I think that they just ignored that this entire game happened when they made Guerrilla.
Man, Red Faction 2 is awful. I've played through Red Faction, Guerrilla and Armageddon and thought I would give RF2 another shot since I got a free copy for pre-ordering Armageddon on Steam but it's so awful. The environments are ridiculously cramped and small, there's a constant deluge of loading screens breaking up the experience and there are distinct levels which break away from the first games Half-Life styled presentation. To make matters worse the enemy a.i. is completely retarded, the animation is awful, the environments look worse and the destruction is incredibly nerfed and limited. Red Faction 2 is a step back in almost every conceivable way from the first game and you can't really point the blame at the consoles of the time because the first Red Faction was a PS2 launch title. Soooo what the hell went wrong with this game's development?
Since I'm already a third of the way through it in little over an hour (!) going by the FAQ I glanced at, I might suffer through the rest of it.
The plot doesn't even make sense, the Red Faction are on earth and this group of nano-super soldiers, that you play one of, used to be under the employ of the despot you're now fighting. Your squad are guns for hire working for martian revolutionaries on earth? The nano-tech used to make these super soldiers was stolen from Ultor by the EDF? I think that they just ignored that this entire game happened when they made Guerrilla.
benjipwns
Banned
It should be a BIT longer than that simply because there's some spots where you have to wait on stuff farther in.jaundicejuice said:
Back in the day when GameTap was useful I played it out of curiosity since the first one was solid and the new one was coming out. I played for about two and a half or three hours when it randomly crashed trying to load the next level. I deleted it when the client came back up.
It's not that it's even out there awful (like a Shellshock 2 or something), it's just like depressingly average. It does a bunch of standard FPS stuff and once it does that stuff that's it. It's like they had a checklist, "raining battle on rooftops", "sewer level", "controlling a mech or other random vehicles part", etc. And once they had it, welp, done, move onto the next thing rather than make it something special or exciting.
That said, if I remember one part of the game it was the part in the subway with the trains. That was one instance where the game got two steps beyond average and towards something inventive. But of course like the rest of the game they did the barebones straight forward approach to it rather than making it into an interesting battle where you have to fight while avoiding the trains. IIRC, you don't even really fight enemies when having to avoid the trains, you only do when you get to stations.
The step back on the destruction is the greatest crime of all though.
I don't know whether it's Steam or my service provider, but my download speeds have been increasingly nerfed over time. I started at 2MB/sec--super fast--then all of a sudden one day was capped at 250k. Like I literally couldn't break 250k, regardless of which server I was on. This was the norm for months. Now I'm capped at 125k. WTF is going on here?
biocat said:
I've had a few purchases on the list that have gotten an Aussie shafting. Half the time I get angry and just figure they don't deserve any of my money.
You're right though, I'll just wait until the end of the year and - for now - keep buying games with US/AUD price parity. (Deus Ex incoming!)
I have 3.5MB download internet connection and Steam maxes at 1.4MB. Really frustrating because I have a Steam content server in my town, Charlotte NC.
I tried a fresh install of Steam on a separate machine ( laptop ) hooked into my router with an ethernet cable and still was being limited at 1.4MB per second. I have tried various content servers in nearby cities and it's always the same 1.4MB max.
EDIT: I have adjusted my "Internet Connection" setting in Steam to Cable/Fiber.
Any suggestions?
I tried a fresh install of Steam on a separate machine ( laptop ) hooked into my router with an ethernet cable and still was being limited at 1.4MB per second. I have tried various content servers in nearby cities and it's always the same 1.4MB max.
EDIT: I have adjusted my "Internet Connection" setting in Steam to Cable/Fiber.
Any suggestions?
Huevos de Oro
Member
That's me, only my connection maxes out at 1.1 MB. Feels bad, man.mbmonk said:
Perhaps it's a stupid question, but do you mind explaining exactly what you mean? I pay for a cable connection that got upgraded to a 1.1 MB/s cap. As long as the server I'm downloading from is good enough, Steam downloads max out at 1.1 megabytes per second, because that's what the ISP limits them at. Why would I get less if the server can keep up?R2D4 said:
MacGurcules
Member
Dunno about the X button, but if select "Exit" from the "Steam" dropdown menu, it properly exits the whole client. Not quite as quick as just hitting the X, but it'll save you a few clicks versus digging it out of the system tray.Shambles said:
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