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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.
The irony of all this is, Slashdot's serving a Doom 3 ad on the same page as this article. Guess which game doesn't need messing around with registration?
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
Sledgehammer.
The internet makes me stupid.
I have read the faq that tells me what ports to open but it is unclear.
I sit behind a firewall (linux)
and my xp box does not do any firewalling on itself.
I opened the ports (portforwared them to my XP box) and then I click on steam and there is a long wait and then I get a screen to create an account, but it says it failed since it is in offline mode.
Is there a way to make it online?
Anyway, I turn off all the active port forwarding (ie XP box can make make connection on any port since the firewall tracks the connectsion) and when I click on steam, it says Service temp unavaiale.
next problem, when I just have my normal router,
I hit steam it updates An locks at 27%, saying it cannot copy. Try as I might I can make the file change from Read-only
WHAT IS GOING ON?
DID VALVE INSTALL THIS AS READONLY?
HELP PLEASE
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Sigs are dangerous coy things
That was always a cheap trick, trying to make someone look like they're trying to get karma when they're not. I have enough already, not that it actually has any bearing on my life whatsoever. And I wasn't defending anyone, but rather objecting to the OP (who is likely the person I'm responding to now). I guess IHBT enough for today.
~ Aero