Steam down

Valve ran out of money and have closed down.

It's called christmas sale

>>58137433
They offered a few years ago L4D2 free forever for who got it on 30-31 December (: I wonder if they do something similar this year as well.

Thought it was just me lul; hoping it's the Xmas sale even though I'm poor I have some CS skins to sell.

>>58137495
Haha funny.

>>58137509
This.

>>58137527
Really? That is cool as fuck, I would be happy if they did that. Maybe with there games like Portal and Half Life 1 and 2.

the 486 running the steam services is being upgraded to a pentium

>>58137688
How do you know?

>>58137688
Does this mean 128 tick servers?

>>58137509
lol you're retarded It's not because of the christmas sale, it's a DDoS

The store servers are totally unrelated to the steam servers for Dota, CS, log ins, etc.

If the store were down, you could still play games.

It's a DDoS, always happens during winter break.

>>58137716
my dad works at nintendo

>>58137608
Yep, keep an eye on Steam a couple of days before the new year's eve.

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mfw /v/ on suicide watch

Apparently the Steam datacenters in NA and EU have been attacked by muslim extemists in the name if Allah to prevent the western world playing games during christmas and having a great time.
There are a couple of Twitter users tweeting about this, but the leftist media is not reporting about this deliberately. WTF?!

>>58137865
because it's bullshit, it's most likely some botnet kiddies trying to make a name for themselves like it is every year.

>>58137822
>implying those faggots didn't blow their wad yesterday when the servers were up

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i just wanted to play insurgency...

>neets strike again

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>>58137865
>>58137879
unconfirmed sources say that an extremist going by the name of samuel hydenstein is behind the attack on the steam datacenter

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>>58137905
back to >>>/pol/

>>58137921
back to >>>/a/

>>58137433
>>>/r/pcmasterrace

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>>58137926

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>Be buying shit
>Hit "Purchase" to finalize
>Steam is kill while my order is being processed
FUGGGGGG :DDDDDDDD
>[deeb goncern intensifies]
IS IT MY FAULT? DID I DEFEAT VALVE?

>>58137937
dont you have phone homescreen/headphones/desktop thread to circlejerk in?

>>58137960
gabe has already bought donuts with your money

>>58137433
Is it even related to /g/?
>inb4 gaymes is technology
Go to /v/ you cancer bastard!

>>58137743
Shengyu Yokohama?

>>58137985
a worldwide web service is down. its tech related.

>>58137960
>that game list
Anis Amri, is that you?

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>>58137981
But... I didn't get muh DLCz an sheeit. orz
>>58138001
no, is benis

>Tfw struck the final blow to Valve with a $7.75 order

I bet it's some scriptkiddie with Mirai botnet

>>58137730

This, the store servers are independent (and better than the actual game servers); if everything is down, something is happening.

>>58137527
I got it! Some guy toll me her in g.

>>58138032
if i was you i wouldnt be proud of that faggot cart

I was going to play breach league :(

>>58137433
Somebody accidentally spilled gravy on the servers when they had their christmas party.
They tried,but were unable to prevent Gaben from eating the entire datacenter.

>>58137433
Ah yes, proprietary software fucking over the end user. No one heard of that one before! :^)

>>58138055
>>58137730

it is not a DDOS. the site replies instantly, 403 - acces denied.
valve fucked something up.
(most likely the awards thing which did not cycle to the next day's voting thing)

>>58137926
anime website

is the hacker known as 4chan behind this attack?

>>58138170
It's been fully unreachable for well over 2 hours now and it's ALL valve services. It's obviously more than a simple configuration or store mess up

>>58138211
shame they're lacking any proper off-steam contact/support things
twitters are dead, so

>>58138211
check the API
it IS reachable.
it just denies your request to do anything.

>>58138170
Valve is not run by retards. They would have fixed it by now if it was a simple configuration issue.

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>using DRM

>>58138244
>valve is not run by retards

>>58138258
>valve is not run by retards

>>58138240
Api servers are useless if the main stream servers are under DDOS so they probably just return a 403 because while they might be online, the actual steam servers aren't reachable.

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>>58138244

>>58138179
It's fucking forum + images you stupid cunt

Their security was probably breached and they are working to find out how or fix it.

>>58138179
segregated in many boards which do not encourage the discussion of our chink toonz. This being one of them

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>>58138313

>>58137433

So much for the internet of shit and big data, 2016 confirmed as the record of DDOS attacks. TECH WHY TECH, solve the foundational problems before going high level.

>raids on low level kiddies increase

>>58137729
Pure placebo

>>58138254
Didn't this guy himself say that without steam Linux would have no AAA games?

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>>58138327
>still no proper argument
you're grown man watching "cute" cartoons, that's not wrong. What's wrong is thinking that 4chan is >muh safespace
>ree get out normans

>>58138359

enough with that safespace meme, only schooler ameritards use that term

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>>58138359
Just waiting on Steam to come back up~

That recent attack on Dyn was caused by a gamer who rented botnets

>>58137433
how am i gonna play dwarf fortress now ?

>>58138341
Nah, he said if you're a manchild who prefer playing games over freedom, at least use your piece of shit DRM on linux, not windows.

>>58137433

Jewben probably shut it down for suprise hl3 reveal

now PC Gayers cant even play their own games

hi
when will steam back?

we don't care about your shitty life, this is /g/ and there is no solution to this problem which will just replicate itself, the impact is tremendous, last year the cache leaked customer data and steam has tons of personal info

>>58138369
he's pointing out that when people talk shit about weebs and the weebs say shit like "this is an anime website" and "fucking normies" those weebs are behaving exactly the same way that libtards at colleges do when they demand safe spaces or whatever.

>>58137433
>playing video games past the age of 5
Kill yourself.

>>58138407

not your technical support

They is bein ddosed

https://twitter.com/phantomnations

>>58138410
Getting triggered by anime is stupid, its easy to differentiate between mentally ill pedo lain posters and people who just watch a lot of anime.

>>58138437

I was just referring to the safespace terminology which is just a meme that doesn't make sense, that incident at yale is way back and not worth recalling even if it was on south park.

let ppl watch anime, we're not here to judge, the issue is that the whole interwebs is relying on such basic vulnerabilities from the 80s that all of the high level tech stuff we're building on is just non-sensical when it's stacked on a house of cards. Banks can lock up their stuff but when you're supposed to be active on a flow, stuff can just shut down; cashless society?

>>58138427
Yup figures

>>58138401
Linux has worse performance on the same hardware. No thanks.

>>58138069
Yep, I found from /g/ as well.

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>>58138427
>skid
>no proof of attack
>asking for retweets and followers

>>58138427
It's not a DDOS. A DDOS wouldn't knock ALL of their services offline. It's probably some internal server issues. Maybe malware or something.

>>58137926
back to >>>/trash/

>>58138490
Not like you can play your games anyway.

>>58138427
Account suspended, that was quick.

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>>58138427
>Account suspended

>>58138503
probably an elegant rootkit written by a girl

>>58138517
Twitter is fighting "fake news"

>>58137730
Steam went down last year on Christmas day. It's not a DDoS

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>>58138512
I can play offline games until I die.

>>58138529

last year was a DDOS

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/30/valve-ddos-cyberattack-caused-the-steam-caching-catastrophe-cachetastrophe/

>>58138538
if they're all installed

>>58138545
It survived the DDoS, the problem was with the cache system they used to mitigate it.

>>58138538
>The games I want to play are online and use steam to auth.
fml

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>>58137433
rent more games you homo

>>58138561
Look at DDoS growth over 2016, if the attack scaled up as we've seen a lot this past year, it could be far more than they've ever seen before. The Mirai botnet is no joke

>>58138561

sure, I've nothing against Valve in fact it's one of the most respected companies in the community; rather the trend that we've seen in DDOSes this year, surviving a DDOS isn't sufficient, we'll have much more critically uptime elements that will embed themselves as integral parts of functional society so this just can't go on. Look at the scale and number of attacks this year and that's not even mentioning warfare on a national level which was recently in the news (not /pol/).

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These DDOS peoples need to grow up and learn how to hack so they can release half-life 3 to the public.

>>58138608
>unironically animeposting

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>>58137433
>>58138580

This just came out, it appears to be "Phantom Squad"

http://www.techworm.net/2016/12/steam-down-phantom-squad-ddos-steam-servers-bring-christmas.html

I still remember the day I went to my local computer shop to browse the games and they had taken down all the rental floppy disks that were in bags.

T.T

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>>>/v/
children do not belong in /g/

>>58138619
ikr XD

>>58137730
>lol you're retarded It's not because of the christmas sale, it's a DDoS

no you're retarded it's not a denial of service, their physical server still responds to ping requests:

Pinging steamcommunity.com [184.28.154.34] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 184.28.154.34: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=58
Reply from 184.28.154.34: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=58
Reply from 184.28.154.34: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=58

the web and application servers just aren't responding to any requests either because of a bug or maintenance.

>>58137433
>>58137527
>>58138069
MANCHILDREN

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>steam
>ddosed

Are you all retarded? Trying to ddos steam is like trying to ddos google.

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>>58138630
>>58138473

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tarded infograph on the escalation we've seen this year

>>58138686
not really

>>58138691
people don't like china

its alive
its alive
its alive
its alive

yay its back

>>58138698

>people

global power shift

>>58137433

>PC gaming was a mistake.

Meanwhile, my PS4 works just fine. :)

>>58138170
someone fucked up with chmod

>>58137981
kek

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it was me! :^)

>open multiple cmd.exe
>in all of them "ping steampowered.com"
>overpower their servers
>everyone is cuck'd
top kek

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>>58138711
praise kek

>>58138729
Consoles are for children (:

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>>58137433
>>58138623

So pic related must have been true.

Father Christmas paid a ransom probably or "they" just did it for fun.

in b4 the russians

all these kiddies care about games, the haxors had a switch (or valve had a backup plan) either way. fly over the news discretly as if nothing happened

>>58138765
PC are for work
Console for gaymes

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some of it is back. but not all

>>58138771
>phantom squad
what a bunch of scriptkiddie cucks

Hypothetically keeping the store down for a few days would cost Valve hundreds of millions. Could it be done?

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>muh gaymes

>>58138473
>we're not here to judge

are you new here?

>>58138691
>623 Gbps
OVH mitigated a 1.1Tbps attack a while ago.
https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/778019962036314112

>>58138872

I've been a btard since 2003. You'll find logic brings a duality of opposites when people get overopinionated, therefore any judgement is based on subjectivity or perceived expression but not ultimately in a position to enforce any moral or law since we're all equal in anonymity contributing in the hivemind and randomness - I can go on, but no I'm not new here.

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>>58138924
>since 2003
You were on 4chan within the first 2 months it existed? Sorry but I call bullshit. I found it in 2004, didn't become a regular visitor until 2006. Didn't post until 2008.

>>58138811
PCs have multiple purposes, consoles have only one. Consoles are simple machines designed for children (:

>>58138765

A children's toy is working, unlike Steam.

>>58138957

yeah I was a teenager back then looking for the underbelly of the web and somehow arrived on /b/ through ogrish and other dark parts of the web, back when surfing really meant it. I also lurked 4 years before posting in 2007.

>>58138313
anime website where those who like anime get to discuss various other topics

>>58137998
Who the hell on /g/ that still playing gaymes and pay attention to it. Only moron and L33T H4X0R wannabe do that.

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Congrats to everyone who still buys physical copies of the media they consume.

>>58139015

what surprises me is nobody is addressing the root cause of the problem but rather focusing on ad hominem statements, don't shoot the messengers

>>58138987
But my PC doesn't need Steam to play games (:

>>58139016
I don't do that anymore since most of physical copies requiert steam. I've been pirating everything for years now. No way I encourage DRMs.

>>58139016
I do this with console games, on PC you basically have no choice but to pirate or use digital distribution as even physical games activate on Steam / Uplay / Battle.net / Social Club / etc.

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>>58138313

>>58137433


>>>/b/716284887

>>58139056
>>58139098
Oh I didn't know this. That's horrifying.

>>58138563
Figures that /g/ still doesn't understand the concept of a software license.

>>58139140

rumor has it that bin laden was tracked after the playstation network got hacked at the time. counter-strike irl, ironic in a way

>>58138729
haha remember when psn was down for literal weeks? haha

>>58138562
Just delete the steam dll

Actually Gaben used to work at Microsoft and he was the chief project officer in integrating the original DOOM of Carmack, in fact it was so popular that it was outselling Windows at the time that Bill Gates considered buying ID software / his company.

So anyway, the cuck of the century this Nguyen dude that designed counter-strike mod from half-life from his university dorm in his freetime released betas and it became so popular that CS 1.0 was released and everything still operated on the WON network.

When Steam released, there was a massive outrage at the time and a huge unsuccessful boycott, it was circa late 1.1 and the counter-strike community played a large part in populating the steam store before Gaben became incensed in making libraries readily available instead of purchasing CDROMS at stores with keys. Meanwhile, Nguyen got cucked and just developed CS Source and Gaben launched CS GO which led to skins (concept from bananafps which was a skin website) and that's how we know Steam as of today in terms of the success story. Nguyen is currently just an anonymous dude and didn't even grab absolutely any royalties

Steam is up again guys

>>58137433
People use Steam?

>>58139016
I bought the new DOOM at Best buy because it was on sale. Pop the disk in and I had to download 60gbs of data. Other than that cool case.

>>58139293

*Minh Le

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minh_Le

>>58139293
Counterstrike was free, there were no royalties because it wasn't copyrighted.

>>58139405

Yeah, the beta version populated mostly through the CDs on video game magazines as word of mouth was limited on the web at the time. You could say that as a mod, he got cucked just like Edison cucked Tesla with the AC current in badly negotiating his deal. CS 1.0 was then bundled with Half-Life with Ricochet and other memes, most people played CS it rode in the shadow of that GOTY

>>58139431
>>58139405

Either way, those assholes forced us to use Steam to be able to play CS. Fuck, I hated it so much

>>58139492

Legally it's to protect against cracked copies and Valve Anti-Cheat was released at the time even if it detected absolutely nothing and was just a marketing ploy to draw population and bandwidth, the store even barely existed obviously since it was brand new.

You can draw a parallel with the patriot act and illicit funding, any false flag reasons of convenience and marketed platforms to simply spy and collect data under various DRMs, it's just business but mostly the free network under IRC match making and pub WON servers was just terminated under an aegis of a walled garden, so he was visionary in that sense because since his Microsoft days, Gaben saw the potential in creating a platform within an OS, now Microsoft W10 wants a slice of that dev royalty that steam collects through their own shop.

Weren't down long. Gaben must have waved his almighty right hand and magiced everything well again.

Valve always has these problems during any major events.

Christmas seems to be the real kicker for bugs because they go all out to try encourage as many sales as possible using all these little mini meta games and shit.
Quite easy to miss something and the whole server farm shits itself.

I mean, I've heard of people DDoSing their own servers because they copy-pasted their own code and forgot to update it, leading to their back-end absolutely shitting on the front-end. WOOPS.
Then there was that hilarious fuck-up recently when someone in the NHS in England sent an e-mail to every single NHS employee in the hospital (or all hospitals, I forgot) and it brought the e-mail servers to their poor little knees. The old amplification shitstorm. Classic. Happened in our school as well when someone set up e-mail filters on 2 accounts to auto-reply on any e-mail, duplicated the rule, sent one e-mail, whole council network dead in minutes.

>>58138974
go back to /v/
nobody cares that your PC is more powerful than some consoles.

>>58140537
hurrrrrrrr

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>>58137905
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

>>58138490
the only reason is because of X11
Wayland is in development and has been proven to provide zero screen tearing and runs games faster than windows