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NickelPlate said:
Steam went down the toilet shortly after the free L4D2 announcement. Pretty obvious to me their servers are just flooded. I guess they never heard QoS or bandwidth allocation. Can't even get to the store to buy stuff. They're losing money haha! What's Gabe gonna do?
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Oh how ignorant you are.
 
Demo24 said:
You really think they don't already do that? With nearly 7 million active accounts logged in at peak and, as of the last update, a download peak of 2.3Tbps, there's only so much capacity.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
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Well when it takes the entire Steam network down and the storefront becomes non functional for half a day then yeah I consider that poor planning on their part. Not that I care. I'm not raging about it like some people in the Steam forums and on Steam's facebook page. I think it's rather funny actually.
 
NickelPlate said:
Oh what a snarky jerk you are. Do the forum a favor please and go troll elsewhere.
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Yup, you know me, the ULTIMATE TROLLER. :thumbsup:

The ultimate trolls are Valve; they probably enforced the semi-crash to induce storefront hysteria. Know when people seem to want to buy something the most? When it's not available.
 
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Seems like they simply ran out of bandwidth, as was mentioned before they need some kind of functioning QOS in their data center so millions downloading doesn't effect critical services like the store, authentication, credit card transactions, and stuff like that, simply throttling the game downloads and giving priority to all other features of steam would be a good idea.

It's not a new problem, they had the exact same issue when they did the HL2 release and most Christmas holidays since then have seen disruption, it's not an complete unpredictable issue, yet they seem to fail to address it every year.
 
Wait. So Valve gave away L4D?

How did I miss that? I was logged into Steam all day on Christmas. Voted with no problems. The only "problem" I notice was I couldn't access the market for a couple of hours in the afternoon........
 
rivethead said:
Wait. So Valve gave away L4D?

How did I miss that? I was logged into Steam all day on Christmas. Voted with no problems. The only "problem" I notice was I couldn't access the market for a couple of hours in the afternoon........
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For 24 hours on 25–26 December 2013, Valve offered Left 4 Dead 2 for free on PC using its Steam platform.[179]
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GullyFoyle said:
For 24 hours on 25–26 December 2013, Valve offered Left 4 Dead 2 for free on PC using its Steam platform.[179]
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Can't believe I missed that. I checked the sale at noon (Central) on 12/25. I voted at 8am, noon, and again at 8pm on the 25th.....never saw a thing on this.

And I wasn't even drunk. Just blind I guess.......
 
rivethead said:
Can't believe I missed that. I checked the sale at noon (Central) on 12/25. I voted at 8am, noon, and again at 8pm on the 25th.....never saw a thing on this.

And I wasn't even drunk. Just blind I guess.......
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Yeah it popped up on my Steam notifications. I already own the game though. I probably should have posted here, but did not think of it at the time. :\

KT
 
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