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 FortKnox · 2004-11-17 08:25 · Score: -1, Redundant

maybe if someone didn't steal and release the source code two years ago, valve wouldn't have had to do this to their customers.

Don't blame Valve, blame the crackers and the hackers....

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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.