Valve’s video game store Steam is currently busy, servers apparently crashed a few hours ago. It’s very common for Steam to crash at the start of a big sale, although these releases started about 18 hours after the Lunar New Year Sale started that way. Either way, hold on to your pennies, because we’re still waiting for a lasting solution.
Steam seems to have drowned around noon GMT, with the store not loading, giving error messages, or at least taking ages. He seems to struggle upright every time, and just like I think it’s right, away again. Right now I see 502 gateway errors.
I’ve only seen issues with the store myself, with friends and games and updates, and so still working fine, but it apparently also had login issues. Steam’s statistics show that it suddenly lost more than 2 million players around 13:40 GMT. Looks like they’re back now? For now, at least.
Anyway. All we can really do is wait for Valve to stabilize things. Until then, why not play Mystery Steam Reviews with Colm and Matthew? If you have enough second sight to guess all the games, you can do so intuitively when Steam will be fixed.