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Steam Users Steamed
KrunchTime writes "The Steam network seems to be having some problems tonight. This is not good new for fans of counter-strike, day of defeat and other half-life mods. Some people seem to be able to log on fine while others, like me :(, cannot connect at all. The steam forums were filling up with invective when I was last able to get on. The forums now seem to have imploded under the strain of complaints. The question that was being asked most is why there isn't more redundancy on the log-in side of steam. They say that if one of the master servers goes down that the accounts held there become unavailable immediately. The other big problem is that while the Steam network is down even the offline games are unplayable. There was no sign of responses from Valve staff or forum moderators."
I use Steam (Day of Defeat mostly) every day and I've never had a problem. These little crap whiny stories about a small subset of users make me sigh. I assure you that you are the exception and not the rule. If something doesn't work, your machine or connection isn't fully working the way it should, fix it before you come crying foul and blame an entity that cannot defend itself on a personal level.
Stay away from Steam and Valve. It was hard but I decided I didn't want to give my hard-earned dollars to scum like this. Now, maybe I'm missing a great game, but ... I'm NOT steamed tonight. Fuck them and, sorry to say, fuck their users too for subscribing to their techno-voodoo distribution scheme. Boo-freaking-hoo.