Current State of Steam

[lockhart]

Electronic Punk wrote..

And WON is different how?

WON is different because it didn't use bandwidth whenever you do ANYTHING. Honestly, how often do you remember WON being down? I remember it going down twice, for an hour each time. Steam is easier to target because the fake traffic adds a boatload of requests to an already huge set of legitimate requests.

[Mysteerie]

Still WON was centralized. If someoned wanted to (when WON was up), they could of DDos'ed.

[DarkMenacE]

For about 4 hours Thursday night, Steam service was interrupted. After that time, service continued to be slow until about 11:00 am PST today (Friday). These problems were caused by device failure on our network following a power outage. We apologize for the inconvenience -- we're currently increasing redundancy in these areas to prevent this from happening in the future.

Direct quote from a post on the steampowered.com news page, posted by Greg Coomer.



Contradicting excuses, but which is to be believed?

One way or another, someone's trying to cover something up. Either they want to cover their vulnerability of being DDoS'ed, or they want to cover up their faulty hardware and the possibility of their other hardware failing as well.

[Andeh]

Electronic Punk wrote..

And WON is different how?

hey, at least WON WORKED when you wanted to play CS.....

[Kill Yourself]

gg hackers once again

[azz0r]

Another huge flaw of Steam. Take the steam servers out and you down steam so people cant play. Funny how it never happened with WON - maybe Valve should take the hint; Steam isnt wanted.

[Splatula]

This won't stop steam. Steam is here to stay. They'll just keep plugging away at it until their happy with it... and if their track record with HL/CS is any indication of when that will be, I'd say never.



Who cares if it is a DOS, or hardware failure, or a bit of both. Valve Doesn't have any onus to report anything to us except that it's down. They could have just said, "Steam will be down for a few hours, sorry for the inconvenience." Then this would just be a thread about how much Valve and Steam sucks.

I mean you're right DarkMenace. Whenever something goes on, they should phone every Valve employee, even if they're sleeping or off for the weekend, and tell them exactly what's going on so every employee knows the scoop. Just in case we email or run into them, we can say... "what is the network status of steam?" and they will be able to quote us the current status. They should also fire all the guys who think there may be a problem, and try to think of what it may be. Like network connectivity going out because of a DOS attack, or a hardware failure. They aren't paid to think. Hey Valve just fix the problem you psychic mofos!

[Ricebowl]

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It says 8 pm PST for me. :/



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[ukHazard]

It happened several times with WON. And ther best one was where their DNS messed up so bad, everyone had to use IP addresses in woncomm.lst for a while.

[Ricebowl]

I remember that. That was a pain.

[xlokix]

i don't think i've heard someone say, "Good Job Valve!" once.

[DirtyDevil]

GOOD JOB VAVLE i say it all the time :P they gave us half life witch gave us cs yay and than stream :| meh i dl fast from steam sooo im happy :P

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

You can only blame this on the sad people who did this, not Valve or Steam whatever.. You could DoS WON aswell if you wanted to, would that mean WON sucks aswell? Get a life people!

[[PKM]GenocideS1]

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