Mr. Newell was hungry...
in the server room.

Valve has never and will never acknowledge there ever was a problem.

Unscheduled maintenance.

https://steamstat.us/

The regular stats page shows a tiny chunk missing... clearly when it was down it couldn't record that the system was down.
https://store.steampowered.com/charts/

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Unscheduled maintenance.

https://steamstat.us/

:nkCool:

i think it cant be a maintenance. cauz all of the servers and api around the world were offline at the same time. Only major version/architectual update shut servers all. OR. emmm maybe they really shut the servers at the same time...This is a bit much.....

it's probably a coincidence, but i was practicing dark magic after an unsatisfactory outcome from steam support at around the same time. sorry for any inconvenience.

Just gonna point out that the West Coast of southern Canada (southern BC) and both Washington and Oregon have been getting hammered by atmospheric rivers for 2 weeks or longer now, bringing rain, flooding, massive power outages, landslides, downed trees, strong winds and wind damage. Not saying that's what caused the outage, but if backup power to Valve HQ hiccupped and took everything down- it would take a few for engineers to get the generators going and spin up the main servers again.
Just a possible situation that involves no conspiracy theory crap- just Mother Nature being a total ♥♥♥♥♥.

Although pushing a Client update to prod on Friday *and* a holiday weekend, during a big sale, where the staff on site is going to be a skeleton crew may have played a part in it, lol.

Never push to prod on a Friday. Never.

Originally posted by 春熙路站到了:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Unscheduled maintenance.

https://steamstat.us/

i think it cant be a maintenance. cauz all of the servers and api around the world were offline at the same time. Only major version/architectual update shut servers all. OR. emmm maybe they really shut the servers at the same time...This is a bit much.....

They were working on the backend and had to do a quick reset. Prepping for the holiday.