Valve's Steam Network Is Down [UPDATE]

@InYourMouf: What's the discount on that fart?

@egger7577: You wasted cash on buying that?

@egger7577: crap this is really bad

@PsychicKiller82: Hard to tell if that's sarcasm, but if not, you must be living under a rock if you think XBox doesn't have DDos issues. If anything, PC is the most reliable in comparison to Microsoft and Sony.

@PsychicKiller82: Lol, what?

@phili878: What did we learn? Steam was down not even an entire day? Digital is here and has been for years now lol. This comment would of made sense in 2010.

@phili878: Last time I played with a physical disc was when Mass Effect 2 was released, I'm not going back, certainly not because of a minor down time, lol.

@phili878: I think discs are dying slowly....

@phili878: Because that's a practical idea for PC gaming in 2016.

@hazuki: my internet connection completely sucks, and i often have an hour or more per day with no internet, not to mention the last few months the idiot i'm renting from forgets to pay time warner so it gets shut off (i finally took over paying and take it out of my rent) so i've had days with no internet.

never had any problem with any game that isn't "online only" which is very few. (diablo 3, and adventure capitalist are the only ones i can think of, D3 being not on steam)

not sure why you'd have problems with it... i've played origin games with no internet as well, but that was a a couple months ago.

@hazuki: Never had that issue. In fact I don't even know the time required to check in online again. You have to set up the games you want to access offline and you can play only those games you previously set up in offline mode. My longest no internet access to a game is almost three months without signing in online.

Of course I'm pretty bad att setting up all games offline regurlarly so when shit like this hits I'm not prepared. But during my 12 years on steam, the last few years, when steam is down it is mostly for 10 minutes at a time. It usually never is like psn or xblive that are atleast a few hours every time.

This time with the sale etc it was down for longer but as someone who works and have a family, this close to christmas I can only remember back with nostalgia the time I lived such a carefree life I had time to play games instead of dealing with all the christmas preps myself. So this downtime didn't affect me personally since I had alot more boring things to do.

@gord0nd: thanks for the head up... only 4 hours remaining to claim that free game. :)

@beantownsean: I picked up project cars but couldn't connect to the steam servers earlier to download it.

@saturatedbutter: yup, the 'mega sales' bring the prices down to about the same as some other sites have their normal prices, maybe a bit better.

generally i only buy games directly from steam now if they are not available on the other sites.

@saturatedbutter: Now that steam completely dominates the market, the need for huge sales has gone

@saturatedbutter: The days of the mega discounts are over.

@saturatedbutter: They are either not that good or we've already purchased everything good.

@saturatedbutter: Agree 100%