Steam Is Down (steamstat.us)

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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Ah, I was wondering when it would begin

[The-Ixian]

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...

Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin

[Anonymous Coward]

... decide to go to their number 2 option of hanging out with family...

My number 2 option is masturbation. Hanging out with family is number 7 tops.

Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin

[Oswald McWeany]

What about masturbating with the family?

I think "masturbate with the family simulator" is already a game on steam.

Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin

[mukinrestak]

Man, I get tired of this "neo-nazi" boogeyman. Every time you flap your yap to smear folks as being Nazis, you are doing an incredible disservice to each and every victim of the actual Nazis. Show some damn respect, for yourself, if not for anyone else.

Re: Ah, I was wondering when it would begin

[Anonymous Coward]

Or are you doing the exact same thing Steam users can do?

Apparently they cannot.

Sorry, but the ability for someone to rescind your right to play a purchased game indefinitely into the future is NOT the same as being temporarily unable to buy a game to begin with.

Once I buy the game from GOG, no server problem, remote de-activation, going-out-of-business, or other issue can prevent me from playing the game I bought. The same cannot be said of online DRM-ed games.

Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin

[Sarten-X]

I'm going to have to disagree.

The groups that get the neo-Nazi label are the ones promoting Nazi propaganda, ideals, and methods. There are groups actively using the swastika symbol as an identity and using Hitler's writings as a doctrine. They advocate the same racial cleansing the old Nazis did, and the same totalitarian fascism. They get the name neo-Nazis, because they only differ by being more recent.

No, the label is not disrespectful to victims of the Nazis. Rather, what is disrespectful is to immortalize the Nazis by granting them some kind of unique status as the gods of oppression and death. By insisting that nobody today could compare to the Nazis, we further distinguish the Nazis as being something special, more powerful than mere mortal humans. In effect, declaring the Nazis as an untouchable evil would grant them status as a superior race, exactly as they wanted.

That would be disrespectful. That would undermine the victory of World War II. That would be an incredible disservice to each and every victim of the actual Nazis.

I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to continue to declare that any group that tries to act like the Nazis are neo-Nazis. I'm going to continue to treat them as humans; no more and no less. I'm going to continue to do what I can to ensure that the horrors of the Nazis are always presented as a mundane evil that got out of control, and I'm going to continue to teach that every person, everywhere, has that same capacity for evil, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or economic status. They also have the same capacity for good, and it is the active choice to work toward that good that makes someone worthy of a unique place in history.

But The Cloud!

[Anonymous Coward]

But it's The Cloud! The Cloud is more secure, safer, and more reliable! The Cloud can't go down!

Re:But The Cloud!

[Aaden42]

The cloud has not gone down. We just call it rain now.

Is this relative?

[kapoios]

https://games.slashdot.org/sto...

Re:Let Me Just

[Sarten-X]

Steam is different... it's not your perfect ideal, but it's different from the abysmal pit we were headed for before Steam. Steam is a decent compromise between the anti-cheat and anti-piracy efforts of vendors, and the pro-consumer model apparently favored by you and others.

See, what I remember from my history is that those multiplayer games were full of cheaters and hackers, to the point where half of the game was figuring out whether your game was legitimate or not. I remember seeing casual piracy with cloned disks and hundreds of "backups" being passed around my networks. I also remember seeing the start of server-side games that lost functionality when their studio closed and their servers shut down. I remember the predictions that that would be the only effective way to combat piracy, and I remember reverse-engineering efforts claiming to ensure the longevity of games... and I remember their failures, too.

Steam is not perfect, but it is different... It mostly works.

Re:Let Me Just

[duke_cheetah2003]

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?

Re:Let Me Just

[lactose99]

Steam has done more to bring quality games to Linux than anyone besides perhaps Unity3D. I'll take the occasional outage (neverrmind that offline mode works wonderfully in these scenarios) if they continue to bring good games to my platform of choice.