Short Steam Maintenance Coming on Thursday, Sending Matchmaking Offline

by Alice O'Connor, Feb 03, 2010 6:35am PST

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Many aspect of digital distribution platform Steam will be unavailable for "three hours at most" on Thursday due to planned software maintenance, Valve has announced.

Features including "Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases" will be offline during the maintenance, which will begin at 6:00pm PST and is expected to last up to three hours.

Though it is safer to face zombie hordes with bots than with Nick and Faylor.

Valve explains "games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playable," though you'll have to face the zombie apocalypse alone for a few hours.

Valve recently revealed that its digital distribution platform experienced a 205% growth in unit sales last year and now has over 25 million "active accounts."

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By: spaceyme x Show Full Post

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big LOL at 25 million active accounts figure. there's no more than 2.9 Mill on at any one time. I'd love to know how Valve define an active account.

Feb 03, 2010 2:47pm PST

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big LOL at 25 million active accounts figure. there's no more than 2.9 Mill on at any one time. I'd love ... : spaceyme
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By: chiisu81 x Show Full Post

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They can't do these updates in the middle of the night why?

Feb 03, 2010 9:40am PST

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They can't do these updates in the middle of the night why? : chiisu81
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- uhhh...because most people play then? : Ace417

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By: at0micgarden x Show Full Post

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It sucks that this is during prime-time in the US. I wonder why.

Feb 03, 2010 7:21am PST

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It sucks that this is during prime-time in the US. I wonder why. : at0micgarden
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By: GenBanks x Show Full Post

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"3 hours at most"
i.e. Steam is going to be down for the next three weeks.

Feb 03, 2010 10:28am PST

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"3 hours at most" i.e. Steam is going to be down for the next three weeks. : GenBanks
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- Haha valve time. : ajvitaly

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By: UtilityMaximizer x Show Full Post

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I choose to believe that after this update, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will be available for purchase on Steam.

Feb 03, 2010 8:38am PST

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I choose to believe that after this update, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will be available for purchas... : UtilityMaximizer
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- It's at most Targets but nowhere else. I don't know if I'd hold my breath, bro. : wytefang

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By: Attica Blue x Show Full Post

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That's odd. Isn't the AvP demo supposed to be released tomorrow, presumably also on Steam?

Feb 03, 2010 7:10am PST

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That's odd. Isn't the AvP demo supposed to be released tomorrow, presumably also on Steam? : Attica Blue
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  I'm sure FileShack will have it up as well. : lectR
  - Depends on how it's released. Given that AvP PC will require Steam, a standalone non-Steam release of the... : Chris Faylor

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By: Orange Pylon x Show Full Post

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So long as it doesn't fuck up the DOD:S Shackbattle.

Feb 03, 2010 8:35am PST

So long as it doesn't fuck up the DOD:S Shackbattle. : Orange Pylon

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I'll make sure to get in all of my L4D2 raging tonight then

Feb 03, 2010 6:40am PST

I'll make sure to get in all of my L4D2 raging tonight then : MuteMode

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