Scheduled Steam Downtime

Posted by Sebastian · 08/06/09 @11:41 am · steam updates · add comment

Steam will be offline for maintenance today August 6th, 2009 between 6PM and 9PM PST. Here is the announcement posted earlier:

Beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific time Thursday August 6th, we will be performing software maintenance on some Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last three hours at most, putting the end of the window at 9:00 pm Pacific time.

Some Steam services will be offline during this time. Affected services will include the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playable.

News updates and any further information will be posted in this space.

We will work to make this downtime as short as possible. Thank you for your patience!

Friends will be offline and if you're playing TF2 or L4D you will not be able to access the rank system and player unlock achievements during the downtime. Counter-Strike should function as normal..

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