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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Re:Gotta stop piracy! by Neil+Watson · 2004-11-17 08:27 · Score: 1, Redundant

Was the source code not stolen from inside? Thus the customer suffers for the company's own mistakes.

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Looks like... by JazMuadDib · 2004-11-17 08:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

they should have opened the Valve a little more.