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Steam servers went offline for a few hours, but they’re back up nowDown, but not out.
Down, but not out.
Crikey, glad that’s over. It looked like we’d lost Steam for a couple of hours. Today’s outage not only affected store listings, community pages, friends lists and workshop access, but also took several of Valve’s lovely multiplayer gunshoots/wizard bashers/hat-acquirers offline. Countless poor Steam users were forced to do other things with their time - playing their Steam games alone, going elsewhere for their online kicks, or perhaps even stepping away from their computers entirely to make a nice cuppa.
While it was possible to log into the Steam client itself during the downtime, Store and Community features were completely inaccessible. Launching, updating and installing games worked as expected, but buying ‘em, or playing with friends? Not so much. Valve games likeCounter-Strike: Global Offensive,Dota 2andTeam Fortress 2also took a hit, with multiplayer servers going offline.
10:16 PST ✅#SteamCommunity appears to be back online.https://t.co/m0NlDb8Z4P— Unofficial ? Steam Status (@SteamStatus)January 30, 2020
10:16 PST ✅#SteamCommunity appears to be back online.https://t.co/m0NlDb8Z4P
— Unofficial ? Steam Status (@SteamStatus)January 30, 2020
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Predictably, if unfortunately, Valve have remained silent on the issue. TheirSteam Twitter channelmakes no mention of the downtime, instead flaunting midweek madness deals. I was surprised to learn while writing that theirSteam Support accounthas been radio silent since 2017, last posting an announcement for reporting bugs in thosecontrollers wot they don’t make any more.
Oh well. You may resume consuming videogames as normal. It’d just be nice if you kept us in the loop, eh, Steam?
