Also – just FYI, Tuesday is pretty standard as the “update day” for most software or software-adjacent companies/teams.
Yah can’t ambush people with changes on Mondays, you can’t do it on a Friday or over the weekend and allow things to go down.
Doing to Tuesday allows for fixes within the same week with the minimal impact to customer/user.
(At least with my experience in the industry).
Crewarookie
What is this? A meme from 2004? Never once have I seen steam taken down for maintenance and I play A LOT. Almost every day and for well over a decade on steam.
MotorEagle7
Never heard of this before
ninjakivi2
For those who never been affected – Steam occasionally goes down around 23:00-00:00 UTC/GMT for 2-5 minutes or so, if you’re playing a multiplayer indie game you will most likely get disconnected.
This used to be very common on Tuesday, now days I will argue it happens at random days, Mon-Fri.
MANY multiplayer games are affected by this, if you’re playing with friends you will get disconnected; sometimes the steam wil refuse to load pages for a couple of minutes, sometimes it’s just the friends system that puts you offline while everything else is functional.
Dying light, Deep rock galactic, Payday, Terraria, pretty much any game where you can join using steam will just disconnect when this happens. Look at Palworld or counter strike player graphs from yesterday, do you see the slight dips?
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It’s Wednesday
Never had that issue
Also – just FYI, Tuesday is pretty standard as the “update day” for most software or software-adjacent companies/teams.
Yah can’t ambush people with changes on Mondays, you can’t do it on a Friday or over the weekend and allow things to go down.
Doing to Tuesday allows for fixes within the same week with the minimal impact to customer/user.
(At least with my experience in the industry).
What is this? A meme from 2004? Never once have I seen steam taken down for maintenance and I play A LOT. Almost every day and for well over a decade on steam.
Never heard of this before
For those who never been affected – Steam occasionally goes down around 23:00-00:00 UTC/GMT for 2-5 minutes or so, if you’re playing a multiplayer indie game you will most likely get disconnected.
This used to be very common on Tuesday, now days I will argue it happens at random days, Mon-Fri.
MANY multiplayer games are affected by this, if you’re playing with friends you will get disconnected; sometimes the steam wil refuse to load pages for a couple of minutes, sometimes it’s just the friends system that puts you offline while everything else is functional.
Dying light, Deep rock galactic, Payday, Terraria, pretty much any game where you can join using steam will just disconnect when this happens. Look at Palworld or counter strike player graphs from yesterday, do you see the slight dips?
https://preview.redd.it/ijkk0ec7kkic1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=19229b6fb55dbc79d830d9d23978654d54ff1694
Usually it’s much more drastic drop, this time it wasn’t so bad it seems, the point is that is can, and does happen around midnight for the Europeans.
Played this Tuesday night?
That shit is mad annoying. Right at 6pm. Like I just got home and then you cut me off.
https://preview.redd.it/v2t819zjqkic1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec48a85cd6c66fe244e988e52d2575c046de7334
Every MMO player on the planet.
Huh ?
Laughs in Steam unlocked games
It does…? Never noticed
When this happens I instantly try to guess if its a tuesday and in most cases it is..
This an American thing? Steam’s always up for me so thinking it’s a time zone thing.
Good thing I have a job so when I get home it’s all in working order.