Steam Status

[ozmer]

we love u steam!!!

[-:Nighthawk:-]

I'm curious... has anyone received a validation email? If so, could you please post a copy of it? (Obviously with the account name and code itself blanked out...)

[Tek]

Edited by [user="3142"] @ [time="1078394966"]

i suppose they took the email verification stuff down up until the steam network is fully back online ...



... at least that`s what i`d do if i was valve



Quick update what a forum sticky at steampowered.com says:

A note about email verification!

When you get to the button that will send the verification email, just click it once. The mail won't show up right away, but it will. As you can imagine, everyone getting the update has been trying it out and - well - trying it out a lot. There's a bit of an email backlog right now.



Also you don't have to verify your email at all - you can still play without verifying it.

[Dachs]

i think the email verification is so you can play on LAN :) So instead of needing the net to verify ur email everytime u play want to play on a LAN, now you wont have to because your steam account has been verified by valve and you can play on LAN without the need of a net connection. \o/

[ozmer]

Dear Steam user (account name: digisampler@hotmail.com),



This is an automated message generated by Steam account administration to verify

your email address.



Here is your Steam email-address verification code:



********



When Steam asks you to verify your email address, enter the code above exactly

as written. (You can use copy & paste to enter it into Steam.)



IMPORTANT: Please do not reply to this message to attempt to verify your email

address -- that won't work. You must enter the code above into the Steam

application.



Signed,



The Steam Support Team

To contact us, email support@steampowered.com



==============

This notification has been sent to the e-mail address specified by a user of

Steam. If you did not attempt to verify your email address using Steam, please

ignore this message. For more information about Steam, please visit

http://www.steampowered.com. For information on Valve's privacy policy, please

visit http://www.valvesoftware.com/privacy.htm.

[Spookie4551]

I've verified my e-mail but have no idea what that means :/

[Tek]

It is meant to verify that you are indeed alive and kicking, or better, your account is valid and can be used to purchase games like CZ and HL2 ( in case you decide to add CC info later on ) through Steam.

[CmdrFlesh]

I need suggestions on how to convince my student home network admins to open the steam related ports...



note: death threats, violence and/or blackmail are not applicable.

[pred is dead]

STEAM IS A PILE OF SHIZNIT



nuff said

[Bigun]

has anyone else wondered when the pause all updates and limit network usage buttons in the steam monitor will be enabled?

[a_russak]

Probably once they start selling games over Steam, anything so far have been required patches, and must be downloaded so you can play, but the games they sell (HL2, CZ) won't be owned by everyone and if you buy them through Steam, they are gonna be really freaking big, so downloaded will take a while and a Pause function would almost be necessary.

[Spookie4551]

Tek wrote..

It is meant to verify that you are indeed alive and kicking, or better, your account is valid and can be used to purchase games like CZ and HL2 ( in case you decide to add CC info later on ) through Steam.

Oh christ, I never want to buy anything through steam. I'd rather have the boxed version!

[TiceMan]

When I try and join a server it says something about error verifying steam user id or something like that.

[Spoonman]

pred is dead wrote..

STEAM IS A PILE OF SHIZNIT



nuff said

GB2gotFrag



Anyone remember when you had to wait days to download the next version of CS? Anyone?

[TiceMan]

Nevermind. I fixed it. Just logged out and then back in. Works good now.