It's a serious weakness of the current incarnation of Steam. How many
thousands of people were unable to play their favorite games? I'm very
surprised they haven't done something already, like spread out the steam
servers in case there is a local power outage. I would bet along with you
that this happens reeaaalll soon :)
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Ah well
I bet this doesn't happen again though
Even WON had multiple authentication servers physically spread out across
the country IIRC.
Now that STEAM doesn't just do Valve games, I suspect that there will be a
big push to spread these services out geographically to provide true
redundancy.
I wonder if this was thought of?
On 12/17/06, Edward Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some Steam services were working and some were not... apparently due to
wide-spread power outages in the area. While I can certainly understand
circumstances beyond Valve's control causing authentication and
connection
problems relative to Steam servers... what I can't understand is why my
stand alone single player versions of Half-Life and Half-Life2 wouldn't
work. These are legal versions of software running on my computer with
no
need of Valve intervention or authentication. Why should power problems
on
the other side of the country stop me from playing a single player
computer
game on my computer?
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [hlds] Problems with Steam
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Anyone else having problems logging on to Steam?
Also the Forums seem to be down.
Is this a hack attack?
Is there any way to play Steam games stand alone?
I want to play but it won't work unless it sees steam.
What do I do now?
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