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Steam Registration Servers Overloaded

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:Be grateful... by Paralizer · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  2. you could go through valve's servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or you could just use a crack... did valve really think they could "stop" the pirates on this one?

  3. Valve causes problems with steam? by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  4. I get sick of hearing you cry babies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you don't like the fact that it's copy protected, DON'T BUY IT!!! If everyone who felt that way actually refrained from buying it, the company would get the message. But our stupid society is such an instant gratification junkie, that we can't wait, thereby teaching the company that they really screwed up. We've got to be first on the list to shell out our money.

    You guys aren't much better than junkies...

  5. Re:Last night was no parade by pod · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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