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Zkuq on 21 December 2016
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Lawlight said:
Zkuq said:

If Steam is ever down, I've never noticed it.

I'm looking at aussieoutages.com and DotA2 is the #2 most reported product this week - 67% server connection issues and 32% log-in issues. EA is at #3 and Battlenet is at #8. The rest are non-gaming products.

Dota 2 is not Steam, so not sure why you're even bringing it up. I don't know its server configuration, but if I had to guess, I'd say it doesn't use Steam for more than basic authentication and that it does the rest on its own.

Pemalite said:
Zkuq said:

If Steam is ever down, I've never noticed it.

Steams Network is decentralised. It's impossible to take the entire network down completely.

There have been instances where DDOS attacks has taken down the Authentication servers for Steam which prevented people from logging in temporarily, but you can work around that easily enough.
Those that were logged in didn't notice any difference really.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the information!

bunchanumbers said:
It is the best network. Even Steam had that deal where they showed credit card information randomly and PSN was hacked and down for weeks. The only one who can really compete with MS for network stability is probably Nintendo.

It didn't really show credit card information. Well, sort of. It showed the last four digits, which isn't all that useful, especially if you only get it from a few random people, and I think it could also show other pages as well instead of just the personal info page. Anyway, it was more along the lines of scary than dangerous or harmful. So yeah, that was a problem, but not quite as bad you as make it sound. :)