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Steam Registration Servers Overloaded
duckle writes "The Inquirer reports that "The World has come crashing down around Half-Life 2 players today, as Steam's authentication servers in Europe have died.", and deemzzzz_k writes "It looks like even Valve wasn't quite prepared for Half Life 2's popularity. HL2 requires registration to unlock the game and although the Valve/Steam homepage claims that it fixed registration issues the servers are still overloaded. Registration is "delayed" and temporarily unlocking the game takes 20-30 minutes over a 1.5MB DSL line." This seems to primarily be an issue for folks who bought the game from a store; I purchased the game via Steam and was playing at 12:15 am PST on launch day.
Steam ran out of steam.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
If I wrote something witty, you would say I stole it from somewhere.
...we can Slashdot them, too!
Don't kick a man unless he's down? Don't post servers to Slashdot unless they're already down?
God spoke to me.
Do I need to say anything else about that?
So if you paid for the game at the store you may or may not get to play it for a while. This is so going to suck for valve. the fall out is going to be huge.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Don't blame Valve, blame the crackers and the hackers....
Cracker ass crackers
Make sure you shake all the bugs out by then...OK guys?
Yes, and here is screenshot from the Polish version.
(Disclaimer: I am quite aware that steam is technically H2O (gaseous) and air is actually a mixture of gasses. Please do not let scientific accuracy interfere with the intended humourous value of the preceding comment.)
I heard their brand new fiber line was cut by a falling minivan full of screaming children.
perl -e 'foreach(values %SIG){$_="IGNORE";}while(){}'
How perfect: http://www.gucomics.com/
If he wants to recover his password, he needs to hack into their network.
Obviously.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Maybe cool from a vinctiveness standpoint, but not for notoriety. Who would you brag to?
Script Kiddie #1: Dude, I totally DOS'd Valve. Steam was down for like hours.
Script Kiddies #2-9: You bastard. I spent 3 hours waiting to activate Half Life 2. Your life is now forfeit.
Script Kiddie #1: Aaauugh! Somebody help! Gaaah! My eye!
...and get the .torrent!
See you in the swarm!
I'd pay $.50 to watch - that would be hilarious!
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Maybe I could start a new business, "Masochist's Fulfillment Corp."
1. Kick guy in nuts
2.
3. Profit!
Neurowiz
If you cheat by yourself you're only cheating . . .
That didn't work out as well as I'd hoped.
-Peter
They probably put their code on a internet connected computer a year ago because they knew that it would take that long for the Steam servers to verify and decrypt it. ;-)
Steam is vaporware!
put the what in the where?
I like being called an idiot, a fucking moron or, now, a clueless fuck on Slashdot. This is strangely inspiring and invigorating, because to me it shows that I made an interesting point, but people are programmed to responde to it in a predetermined way. With an error message, basically, sort of "Does not computer" or "I don't understand"...
Of course, noone made an effort to explain in a rational and logical fashion why I am wrong. Why would piracy not be more effective tool in achieving your goals. I think (having a good business education on top of a great general education) that it's because my proposition isn't wrong. It's just that some people are turned into mindless zombies, repeating the corporate-sanctioned mantra: "Capitalism good! Piracy bad!". Don't know why, but it reminds me of an animal farm, particularly of sheep...
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