Steam Down on Monday

Fruity Snacks

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Straight from Kotaku:


Better make sure you've got a good book and some chores to work on come Monday morning, because Steam will be down for approximately four hours.

Valve say that "some" Steam services will be offline during the scheduled server maintenance, but when those services are in-game matchmaking, in-game lobbies, downloading stuff from the Steam store, buying stuff from the Steam store and the Steam community, it should really say "most".

In fact the only thing it seems you will be able to do, luckily, is play games that won't need Steam for online play.

The downtime is scheduled to take place at 4am on Monday, 11 October and is estimated to run until around 8am the same morning.

http://kotaku.com/5659611/steam-down-on-monday-stock-up-on-provisions

Not huge news, but its valve. It could happen on time, it could take 3 times as long... or, most likely, it could never happen.

Thoughts?
 

A Boojum Snark

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It's in the announcement at the top of every steam forum board. Where they announce all planned downtimes. Big ones usually are in the off-peak hours like this. So. Ditto to Icarus' statement.
 

YM

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It's in the announcement at the top of every steam forum board. Where they announce all planned downtimes. Big ones usually are in the off-peak hours like this. So. Ditto to Icarus' statement.

That's midday to 4PM in England and till 5PM in the rest of Europe. Hardly off-peak Boojum.
 

Draser

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lol, its always gonna peak SOMEWHERE in the world :p