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Steam and Valve's online games are down
Starting at around 1PM ET on December 24, Steam experienced an outage that impacted users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve didn’t acknowledge the outage publicly, but SteamDB’s unofficial Steam Status page reported that the Steam Store, Steam Community, and Steam Web APIs were all offline.
DownDetector received over 6,000 outage reports around 1:15PM ET, and Steam is also inaccessible from Valve’s mobile apps. The outage appears to be affecting APIs for Valve’s online games, like Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and Counterstrike 2, as well.
By around 4PM ET, Steam itself had begun to rebound, and as of 6PM ET, the platform had largely recovered, with the main PC, mobile and Mac clients broadly fully functional, but ocassionally erroring out. There are still parts of the service that are extremely sluggish and, according to SteamDB, many of Valve’s online games are down or only partially functional.
Steam Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Steam experienced a possible outage Wednesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com.
More than 7,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 10:40 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.
Most users reporting issues say they’re experiencing problems with server connection.
More than 25,000 users have now reported an issue with Steam, Downdetector shows.
Reports of problems with the Steam gaming platform briefly slowed around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday before surging again, with more than 38,000 users reporting issues.
Nearly 62,000 users have now reported a problem with Steam, Downdetector shows.
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Twas the day before Christmas and Steam is having some serious issues
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Update: As of 2:30 pm ET, after a brief comeback, Steam is down again. Not great! We'll let you know when it looks like things are back for real.
It's the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down.
It's unclear what's going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we're guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The unofficial Steam Status website is reporting websocket errors, and says the entire Steam store, community, and web API are offline. SteamStat page views are also jumping up, which is a pretty reliable indicator that something's gone wrong.
For more detailed information, explore updates concerning Steam and Valve's.