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Steam Is Down (steamstat.us)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-report dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The entire Steam domain seems to be down for everyone. The websites and Steam clients won't connect. No word from Steam on Twitter or Reddit about the outage. The status page of Steam as well as third-party monitoring sites have confirmed the outage. A tweet from an unofficial Steam Status page says, "100% of #Steam connection manager servers are still down."

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  1. Ah, I was wondering when it would begin by The-Ixian · · Score: 5, Informative

    The gaming holiday DDoS's are becoming a xmas tradition.

    I like the justification of "you need to be spending time with family"... as if pulling a gaming service offline is going to make anti-social gamers decide to go to their number 2 option of hanging out with family...

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    1. Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 1, Informative

      Eh? If you don't see the parallels between Trump and the rise of fascism, you're being willfully obtuse.

      Alliance with white/aryan supremacist groups? Check.
      Elevation of the above to prominent public positions? Check.
      Demonizing entire ethnicities and religions to give the masses an enemy to hate? Check.
      Violent thugs running around and violently attacking opponents? Check.
      Proposals to round up undesirables and put them into camps? Check.
      Promotion of xenophobia, also to give the masses an enemy to hate? Check.
      A propaganda machine using the "big lie" method? Check.
      Promises to "make $country great again" with no specifics besides the claim that dear leader is the only one who can do so? Check.

      Trump may not literally be Hitler. But he's using more than a few of Adolf's techniques to gain and secure his base of power. Honestly, I hope you're right and it *IS* all overblown. But enough of the parallels are there to be very worrisome. And if anything even remotely resembling a Reichstag fire type incident takes place once he is in office... I guess the question becomes poutine or Vegemite.

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  2. Re:Let Me Just by duke_cheetah2003 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could legally install your game on multiple computers and make backups.

    You do know you can do that with Steam, too. Install on as many computers as you want, frankly. And it has game backup built right in. Try using something before criticizing it, eh?

  3. Sucks to be them by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just enjoying my still-operational DRM-free games from GoG over here...

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