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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."
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...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
But it's The Cloud! The Cloud is more secure, safer, and more reliable! The Cloud can't go down!
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.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.