Scheduled Steam Maintenance Downtime Underway

[Dr. Delta]

Valve is up to something. They're going to shut down their servers in order to update/change something. So far there isn't any more info about what they are going to do, but stay tuned.

The schedule maintenance for Steam is now underway and will last three hours at most ending at 9:00 PM Pacific time.

Some Steam services are now offline during this time including the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playable.

News updates and any further information will be posted in this space.

We will work to make this downtime as short as possible. Thank you for your patience!

The official article.

[ad_hominem]

I'm suddenly scared and alone.

[Smurftyours]

Damn. Right after a long day too.

[vcool]

Hey, by the time I go to bed chat will be working again!

[trcc]

Scheduled Maintenance Downtime Underway
February 18, 2010, 6:00 pm - Valve - General Announcement

What????

[YokaI]

Well... No MWII for me today. Maybe I can actually STUDY! .... Aww who the fuck am I kidding? *grabs drawing book and sits in a corner*

[jgoodroad]

great. now what I am going to do... I guess I could work...or worse...go outside.

[srredfire]

This doesn't mean they're planning somethubg. It can just be routine stfuff.

[ad_hominem]

Yeah, I'm willing to bet it means absolutely nothing. Or maybe a slight update which none of us will notice.

[srredfire]

They've done this 9999 times. But don't worry, this time its ep3

[jgoodroad]

wait they have updated OVER 9000 times...It had to be done

[YokaI]

Yeah, I'm willing to bet it means absolutely nothing. Or maybe a slight update which none of us will notice.

Probably going to fix the mega lag steam community gives me whenever I launch MWII. That shit is annoying and it's all steams fault. I have to wait for like 5 minutes until steam community UI works properly.

[Dr. Delta]

This doesn't mean they're planning somethubg. It can just be routine stfuff.

vs.

News updates and any further information will be posted in this space.

Did they before use a big yellow image saying the servers will be down? Or make such a post?

[YokaI]

I honestly think this maintenance is to clean up some of the steam match making servers. A lot of games have been having some connection issues via quick match or some odd matchmaking. AVP may be using the steam servers, which may be why they suddenly decided to undergo maintenance.

[nub]

They said 9pm Pacific time TODAY right? It's 12:18 AM here, meaning 9:18 PM Pacific.

EIGHTEEN MINUTES TOO LONG VALVE!!!!!!!