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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."
Offline mode is your friend.
This is why I will never buy HL2.
1. click "Start in Offline Mode". it's not difficult.
2. who cares about online any more now they've released bots?
judging by all the immature comments above, you're probably all just pissed that you can't say "omfg j00 gay fag whore bitch" here without getting modded down or anonymous-post-banned. can't stand a single night without insulting someone for being better at a game than you?
This was really a pain earlier today at the 400Man Lan. Unfortunately some hoping to play in tournaments could not. Kinda sux when you spend $55 on a game and have a tough time getting it rolling at a LAN. Big thanks to the crew of LPNW! Awesome LAN. http://www.lanpartynw.com/