Steam Registration Servers Overloaded

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Steam Registration Servers Overloaded

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 17, 2004 @08:19AM from the plumbing-problems dept.

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.

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first post by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-17 08:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first post, HA!!! steam rocks
Offtopic Sig comment by wibskey · 2004-11-17 08:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bob Ross rocks!!!
1. Re:Offtopic Sig comment by Locdonan · 2004-11-17 08:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  He may, but I just love the fact that I see him on like 30 different shows. He was on several adult swim shows... great stuff (I hope I'm not modded down for offtopic, I'm trying to get back to good, hell neutral would be GREAT!)
  
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2. Re:Offtopic Sig comment by wibskey · 2004-11-17 08:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Isn't it nice to state in your subject that your post is offtopic and still be moded -1 Offtopic.
  
  Moderators, what would we do without your infinite wisdom and guidance?
  
  No, seriously, what?
  -1 Flamebait
3. Re:Offtopic Sig comment by Aero+Leviathan · 2004-11-17 09:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  It was worth it.
  
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4. Re:Offtopic Sig comment by wibskey · 2004-11-17 09:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Reverse psychology?
  What I was attempting was self moderation. I was trying to not waste people's time and moderation points, by stating exactly what the comment was about.
  So at this point there have been 4 moderation points wasted, pointing out the obvious. It would be nice if they had used to bring to light a comment that had some merrit... maybe spread some positive karma...
  
  And Bob Ross, God rest his sole, still rocks.
5. Re:Offtopic Sig comment by Aero+Leviathan · 2004-11-17 10:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  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.
  
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A telling statement by hellfire · 2004-11-17 08:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It seems like little more than a rant but hopefully the marketing department for Microsoft picks up on this gem from the article:

"... Waited ****ing years for this game to come out and now can't play it? I've got the damn discs in my hands! It's outrageous! I want it now!"

Only a fool will miss that this is a completely legitamite complaint, which is just caused by more anti-piracy and copyright bullshit. And I say microsoft better pay attention because they were probably the ones who are directing Bungie to make sure this game has as much disabling crap as they can fit into the game.

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The irony... by oberondarksoul · 2004-11-17 08:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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?

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Re:I guess by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-17 08:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Try the veal.
Steam reminds me of... by Snipet · 2004-11-17 08:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...that Peter Gabriel video....
Sledgehammer.

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IPTABLES HELP by peripatetic_bum · 2004-11-17 09:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

G

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Re:Good idea... by Epi-man · 2004-11-17 09:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...we can Slashdot them, too!

So does this bring another word into our lexicon? Now when someone posts their own server to /. and gets "slashdotted" it can be called "HL2'ed!"
Re:Good idea... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-17 10:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So does this bring another word into our lexicon?
No, no it does not.
Now when someone posts their own server to /. and gets "slashdotted" it can be called "HL2'ed!"
Sure we can. We're not gonna. Wanna know why? It's a really stupid suggestion.

I really wish I could HL2-wang an elastic band at you.