Steam Downtime Complete - Update Released

[KarmaPolice]

steampowered is down but thx

[rob2t3s]

i dont understand why you people dont like steam... search for answers if you have a problem... steam is pretty good... and only getting better

[no_m3rcy]

i think the words you are looking for are 'its getting closer to how good it was before steam was invented every day!' which is the point people are making when they say they hate steam..



why couldn't they do it with a game that no one plays like avp2 or something ^_^

[Mrknowitall1919]

im havin problems too, i got on cs and i couldn't get in servers



some error with something like STEAM ID not found or something i donno kinda confused



i don't remember the error, but i signed off steam and now im tryin to login again and it doesn't work...



I MEAN COME ON VALVE, U RELEASE A NEW UPDATE OF STEAM TO MAKE IT "BETTER" AND ALL THAT WE GET IS AN UPDATE (TAKES MILLIONS OF TRIES TO DOWNLOAD) WITH TONS OF ERRORS.

[alvinliu]

my steam updated, but i can't launch it, it says "Launching Steam..." for mad long. god damn it, feels like this is steam, when it first came out, actually, it was alot worst, nevermind.

[Farmer Jimbo]

Valve may be willing to subject it's customers to 24 hours of downtime during a major update rather than spend the time and money to actually address the problem. Just a thought. Hopefully Bram will help them out with this specific issue.

[a_russak]

I was able to update my client, but my server...thats another story, I'm just gonna keep trying till 4:30, then if that doesnt work, wait till around 6 tonight...Just have patience, maybe do some homework or something...

[Nathan D.]

a_russak wrote..

I was able to update my client, but my server...thats another story, I'm just gonna keep trying till 4:30, then if that doesnt work, wait till around 6 tonight...Just have patience, maybe do some homework or something...

STOP TRYING. It's only going to make things worse. If everyone stops trying, everything will calm down and start working again! Stop touch that icon. Just let Steam be for a couple of hours.

[no_m3rcy]

2 possible fixes for ppl having problems...



if you get the error where CS and/or other installed mods are listed as uninstalled, click on half life and press 'play' it will do some shit and say 'preparing to play' etc... but will not load, but at least CS and other mods are again installed.



if you get errors of steam not loading up, exit AND ctrl alt delete and end task, if problems are occuring then this is likely 'one' of the problems



though dont count on playing CS tonight, unless you still got 1.5 installed

HAHA, seconds after i posted that i get update box saying 'cs is ready' well good luck

[JdeFalconr]

In my opinion, Valve has once again dropped the ball on this one. I understand that Steam isn't designed for all possible users to be online at once, but the network should be able to handle this kind of traffic. Valve could at least have released the update as a standalone file in order to ease load on the servers. Now we all pay the price. Whoops.

[^.j()$h.^]

Nathan D. wrote..

STOP TRYING. It's only going to make things worse. If everyone stops trying, everything will calm down and start working again! Stop touch that icon. Just let Steam be for a couple of hours.

I don't think anyone is going to listen to that.

[abysmal]

im not sure if steam already does this, but wouldn't bz2 compression for streamed updates be a good idea?

[dforsb]

zbots are nice



playing offline.. nannnaaanaaaa...naaa..

[INFERNO2K]

Does anybody know how to activate offline mode?



It says its ready, but where do you test it?

[Dachs]

You have to verify ur email first, then i take it u just create a game like normal?