Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide

jones_supa writes "Steam users worldwide are getting more than they expected this Christmas, courtesy of Valve. Increasingly annoyed reports are piling up on a Steam Community thread about an ominous 'No Connection' error. Depending on your luck, this means you can either start the client in offline mode and play only single-player games with anything related to the Steamworks cloud features disabled, or you cannot start Steam at all and consequently access anything in your library. However, store related functionality seems unaffected, in case this blunder made you feel like purchasing some more games you may or may not be able to play these holidays." Update: 12/25 17:45 GMT by T : The connection problems were fixed; did you hit the loading errors before they were resolved?

Comments

Let me guess the response...

[Viol8]

"We were hit with a large amount of completely unexpected network activity during the morning of the 25th of December. In association with the local police we are currently investigating a hacker called Mr S. Claus and will post an update shortly."

Sensationalism?

[Hsien-Ko]

Seems working for me.

Re:Sensationalism?

[Cederic]

You may have a borked installation. Steam shuts down (approximately) instantly when I ask it to, and after running for several hours (including through the period of downtime) is using around 100MB of RAM.

You could (and should) argue that 100MB is too much RAM for a simple fat client that offloads most of its work via a browser wrapper, but it's a long way short of 1.5GB.

Google for 'repair steam install' or some such and give it a go.

"Ominous"?

[93 Escort Wagon]

What exactly is ominous about a "no connection" error? Is it followed by a second message - "the killer is in your house" or some such thing?

Re:This is what you get...

[GrumpySteen]

Cheap games and a company that gets their servers back up in less than half an hour on Christmas day? Oh the agony.