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There seems to be a Steam server outage going on atm, some reporting they cannot login.

Valve said it's affecting their games too. It's being worked on.

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Schmaker
Schmaker
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That's why #DRM is bad. You can't play a single game without passing their login servers
#DRM
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r0k
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@schmaker I'm not defending DRM, but it is possible to be offline and play Steam games help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/โ€ฆ

Steam Support :: Offline Mode

help.steampowered.com
@Schmaker
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ROTOPE~1 :yell:
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@r0k @schmaker it's not possible to play offline if you can't get online to go offline.
@Schmaker @r0k
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Danu
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@rotopenguin @r0k @schmaker no, just temporary deactivate network and start steam - offline mode. But there are some games that require permanent online, these will obviously not work. I played over months without a connection
@Schmaker @ROTOPE~1 :yell: @r0k
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Schmaker
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Okay, I had no idea about disconnected network trick. Good point
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r0k
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Perhaps people prepped this when Steam was online before the current outage. Perhaps once Steam works again, people can prep for a future Steam outage.
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r0k
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@schmaker @rotopenguin yes, but you don't have to pass the login server *right now* (during an outage) if you follow those directions. (people don't seem to be understanding that.)
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dwm
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Ref: mastodon.social/@campuscodi/11โ€ฆ

Catalin Cimpanu

2024-08-29 16:57:38


The Steam gaming platform was the target of four waves of DDoS attacks over the past week.

The attacks took place hours before Tencent's Black Myth: Wukong game broke a Steam record of most concurrent users.

Chinese security firm QiAnXin says the attack disrupted Steam servers in 13 regions, but none of the waves lasted more than five hours.

The attacks were most likely designed to prevent the game from breaking Steam's record.

blog.xlab.qianxin.com/more_ddoโ€ฆ


More details on the DDoS attack on the ใ€ŠBlack Myth: Wukongใ€‹ distribution platform

Incident Review On the evening of August 24th, Steam platform suddenly went down, with players around the world reporting that they were unable to log in.
Wang Hao (ๅฅ‡ๅฎ‰ไฟก X ๅฎž้ชŒๅฎค)

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Ben
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I managed to get back into Steam on Linux using the -tcp command-line argument.

Based on the bug reports, it seems to be something to do with a WebSocket server somewhere going offline, I think.

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