Tue, Sep 25, 2012 | 19:13 BST

Steam maintenance took longer than usual – it’s back up

Steam’s regular maintenance took longer than usual, according to Valve. Per a post on Steam’s Facebook page: “The routine maintenance on Steam servers this morning, Tuesday Sept 25th, 2012 is taking longer than expected. We appreciate your patience.” So, if you tried to log in to a game, or tried to change your profile picture and couldn’t – now you know why. It seems all systems are up and running now.

10 comments

Talkar
25/09/12, 6:12 pm

Oh Valve, when will you learn about redundancy among servers?

TheWulf
25/09/12, 6:52 pm

Entertainingly, that’s how ArenaNet keeps Guild Wars 2 up with their endless rolling updates. But so many companies are stuck in the past in regards to this, so it doesn’t surprise me. So many think that going down for X amount of hours per week is okay.

It really isn’t.

roadkill
25/09/12, 7:34 pm

@2 And Anet has been doing that since GW1. Which makes “so many companies are stuck in the past” even more outrageous.

Dragon246
25/09/12, 7:38 pm

Maybe they tinkered with the user agreement too?

OrbitMonkey
25/09/12, 7:59 pm

Steam’s caught the psn cooties after the portal 2 bunk-up :-S

Yoshi
25/09/12, 10:50 pm

Did this really need a news article

Sorvin
25/09/12, 10:55 pm

Several million people locked out of multiplayer… yeah… that needs a news article.

Ownsin
25/09/12, 11:38 pm

@7
Agreed, and im grateful that VG actually made an article about this. I thought i was the only one having a problem!

hitnrun
25/09/12, 11:38 pm

@2 Funnily enough, it was a not-okay aspect of the MMO past when Blizzard suddenly brought it back to fix their FUBAR game in 2004. Then it became an industry standard again because hey, WoW got away with it, and they have 10 million subscribers! Which, of course, gets the logical progression mixed up.

#10

DSB
26/09/12, 3:15 pm

It was down for about 120 minutes.

Guild Wars 2 was down for at least 7 hours on launch day.