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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 was also inaccessible from Valve’s mobile apps. The outage appears to have affected 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. Upon checking at 4AM on December 25, all services seem to have been restored. The Steam Web API, Store and Community are working normally, and all games are running as usual.
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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Steam has been down for most of Christmas Eve
If you’ve been having issues on Steam today, you’re not alone. Valve’s storefront has spent the majority of Christmas eve down, giving people errors of all sorts.
Parts of of Steam are experiencing “websocket errors” according to SteamDB. Steam’s community features and Web API are offline altogether. Popular status website Down Detector also notes a higher volume of user reports, noting problems with server connections, purchases and logins. What this means in practice is that you may not be able to load specific aspects of the storefront, like profiles. You may have trouble purchasing games or using community features. Personally, even aspects of Steam that do work seem to have trouble loading even if they do eventually work.
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