Yes but what if you wanted to play a single player game while it was down???
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Napier, Kevin Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:54 AM To: 'Martin Radford '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: RE: [hlds] steam status.. Yes it appears to have just come online here in the states in the last 5 minutes. It would still be nice to get a post mortem. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Radford To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7/25/2004 10:42 AM Subject: RE: [hlds] steam status.. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Mine came back up about an hour ago, maybe router or DOS problems, I'm in the uk and looking at the server there are players from europe ony - hang on theres 1 from the states now... "Napier, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:5 hours and counting without a peep... kinda rediculous. A simple post on the steam forum would shut all these llama posters up. I dont think it's a content\bandwith overload issue this time, more like something blew up a bunch of the servers. What ever, once again steam showing it's not ready for prime time, at least in my opinion. So past the point of really caring though. "Atleast Valve is fixing the problems that are occurring and do it very quickly unlike some other software companies. " umm dont know who your talking about exactly, and I'm not up for debating this, but when microsoft sends out a fix, 99.99% of the time it doesn't stop windows from booting. Whatever I wasn't posting as flame more like I'd just like darn eta, sh1t happens we all know that, but informing your customers in a timely mannor is important, and lesses the blow 100 fold...lol but we know this story already. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Welsh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7/25/2004 10:10 AM Subject: RE: [hlds] steam status.. -- -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Well we all know that there tons of players out there and the content servers that update the clients can handle only so many connects at a time. I see it like this.... Atleast Valve is fixing the problems that are occurring and do it very quickly unlike some other software companies. -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07/25/04 08:18:56 To: 'Martin Radford '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: RE: [hlds] steam status.. Thanks. This is making a lovely impression on the folks I'm trying to convert to steam this weekend.. just grand. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Radford To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7/25/2004 6:39 AM Subject: RE: [hlds] steam status.. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Yup Players Not able to log on, and cannot contact steam authosation server messages as well. Spotted an 'outdated protocol' message on there too... Martin Radford wrote:-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Same here, I logged out on my client machine, closed steam and restarted for update and now Steam just hangs at log-in. Glad I didnt stop the server as well LOL Hmmm gotta admit My server (Gruuunts Bot Server) is a Tad Empty... "Napier, Kevin" wrote: um is steam doa atm? I know an update was just pushed but it's rare that I can't actually connect to login even. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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