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.

Comments

Re:Be grateful...

[Paralizer]

Your point? Loose a password for anything and you have to go through hell to get it back. You're friend (is it you?) was just careless.

Valve causes problems with steam?

[Pan T. Hose]

Most of that unlocking time is [...] not Steam network activity.

That is true, however it remains Valve's fault.

So, the problems with steam are valve's fault... Well, yes, most probably. I really hate when it happens. But meanwhile, before you have your espresso machine fixed, you might want to check out this new game: Half-Life 2. I've heard it's great.

Re:Last night was no parade

[pod]

You forgot that it also requires a CD to play this single-player, online authenticated and decrypted game.

What utter retardedness this install activation and unlocking process was. While I run into the CS Source problem, many times, too many times, because Google doesn't have the troubleshooting pages indexed yet. Thankfully I did have enough space on disk, so I didn't see the other install issue. I'm also running into the suttering sound problem people are describing in the forums, so I have to reload the game every 2-10 minutes.

After playing HL2 for about 1 hour, I am decidedly undewhelmed. This is breakthrough? This is fun? I have to admit, FarCry is far superior to this nonsense. AND it comes with a manual and a CD case (Farcry also comes on 5 CDs). In fact, HL2 is the ONLY game I ever bought that did not come with a CD case. How the fuck am I supposed to take care of the disk, that is REQUIRED to play, if it doesn't come with a case?!

Stupid stupid Valve. I hope some heads will roll after this retarded (and completely predictable and avoidable) fiasco.