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Posted by Skeletor on Fri Jan 9th at 5:53am 2004

My bud says someone(s) hacked into the Steam Network and it's down? He said that the Steam website is also down (which I could not reach either...) Is this just me and him? [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Jan 9th at 6:06am 2004

I can't play halflife because steam says it can't reach the steam network and shuts down. nor can I reach valve's steam website. I just got home from work and wanted to play some Action HL to relax. I am... pissed.

if it was hacked, that's funny, and Valve are idiots.

if it wasn't hacked, there's no excuse for this pathetic service, and Valve are idiots.

Either way, we know one thing for sure!





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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Jan 9th at 6:09am 2004

Steam wasn't hacked. Valve is actually "down". Power outage or something; straight out of the horse's mouth (autolycus ) [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Jan 9th at 6:21am 2004

Gabe probably had his arms full with fried chicken and tripped over the power cord!



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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Jan 9th at 6:34am 2004

Naw, the power is really out here in redmond/kirkland. Or at least it was yesterday and the day before due to storms. I got it back last night, dunno about Valve.



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Jan 9th at 6:37am 2004

that is still not an excuse for Half-Life to be unplayable... rather, it suggests how vulnerable and unreliable Steam is



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Jan 9th at 6:53am 2004

? posted by Jinx
that is still not an excuse for Half-Life to be unplayable... rather, it suggests how vulnerable and unreliable Steam is

That if... Power is cut off to the Steam servers, they should keep running anyway, somehow? I think you're just in too much of a rush to blame Valve for everything!

[addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jan 9th at 6:56am 2004

? posted by Campaignjunkie
? posted by Jinx
that is still not an excuse for Half-Life to be unplayable... rather, it suggests how vulnerable and unreliable Steam is

That if... Power is cut off to the Steam servers, they should keep running anyway, somehow? I think you're just in too much of a rush to blame Valve for everything!

Well, there's something like power backup systems, erh ...





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Posted by Cassius on Fri Jan 9th at 6:57am 2004

? posted by Jinx
Gabe probably had his arms full with fried chicken and tripped over the power cord!

Obesity really is a bottomless comedy goldmine

It's more like a blessing that Steam doesn't work - all of you guys fewlish enough to have that devilish program may perhaps deserve it





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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Jan 9th at 7:13am 2004

WON is for winners. [addsig]



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Jan 9th at 7:57am 2004

And hay is for horses!

Sorry, I'm just bored. I'll go sleep now.

[addsig]



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Posted by Mr.Ben on Fri Jan 9th at 8:27am 2004

About time, cj! [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jan 9th at 10:54am 2004

? posted by Campaignjunkie
? posted by Jinx
that is still not an excuse for Half-Life to be unplayable... rather, it suggests how vulnerable and unreliable Steam is

That if... Power is cut off to the Steam servers, they should keep running anyway, somehow? I think you're just in too much of a rush to blame Valve for everything!

Well, it would be nice if they had some European servers for all those other people in the world who play, or yes some backup power





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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jan 9th at 4:17pm 2004

? posted by Cassius

It's more like a blessing that Steam doesn't work - all of you guys fewlish enough to have that devilish program may perhaps deserve it

The first release was teh horror, but nowadays steam is running OK on my computer. Still nothing compared with the WON-system, but at least I can play now, instead of watching those progress bars go up and down.





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Posted by Mustang on Fri Jan 9th at 5:37pm 2004

Not being able to play is unacceptable no matter how you look at it. Also, if it was a power issue, backup generators and failover systems are the core of any well planned network infrastructure. If they are at the mercy of any storm what comes through I will question my decision to continue to support this game.





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Posted by matt on Fri Jan 9th at 5:57pm 2004

Even with broad band Steam is sucky. Besides, 1Gb downloads are just not a good idea. They should of just released a 1.6 full installer and updated the server list a bit, then HL multiplayer would be nearing perfection. Maybe. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Jan 9th at 7:03pm 2004

There is always the possibility that they do have a backup generator but that it also happened to fail at the same time. It's not likely but it is possible... people seem quick to have a go at valve



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jan 9th at 8:32pm 2004

Steam's up again.



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Jan 9th at 10:34pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
There is always the possibility that they do have a backup generator but that it also happened to fail at the same time. It's not likely but it is possible... people seem quick to have a go at valve

That's what I said! Bear witness, citizens of Snarkpit!

[addsig]



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Posted by Mr.Ben on Fri Jan 9th at 10:51pm 2004

Valve is quickly becoming the next microsoft in terms of hating it for any half assed reason you get. It's not like they purposefully had a power outage. Oh no you couldn't play HL for a few hours, big deal. Go out, socialise, watch some TV or something.

It's not the end of the world.

[addsig]




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