The point of these questions... good question. I've seen those questions a lot and around, ppl complaining about it etc. Never an answer or a real improvement. Its simply said: Ignored. There is no other word for, its always ignored, never been really addressed, never stated a QoS, or w/e. Steam down? Good for you!
If it was designed and build for the usage they ever can expect, and with growth in mind, we would never face those outages. Design such system to be able to cope with the traffic, instead of design it now for the 3 million users, and in a week find that there are 3.5 million users, and here comes the rollercoaster again. They make money on steam, but it seems that they cant cope with anything above "average" use. Oh, here comes an update, lets take steam down. Oh, there is sales, lets take steam down, oh, here are more players, lets take steam down, oh, the wind comes from east, lets take steam down. Its been like this since I've have a steam account. Anything that's out of the "normal nothing is happening" takes it down. I've worked for banks, where uptime needed to be 99.99% (in working hours), they do everything to satisfy their customers (their personel) by redundancy's, clustering, offsite failsafe etc. Takes a lot of incidents to take even 1 service down. They design their stuff for worst case scenario's. I can understand that this kind of fail safe is too much, but for a commercial party to have such a bad service... Lets put it this way.... I'd be willing to PAY a yearly fee if it was up 99.5% of the time for any service combined. But its a very long way from that. with the downtime I experience now, its now bout 4 hours and steam been online for about 45 minutes total. so thats 3:15 hours... to make that up to 99.5 % uptime that would be a staggering non-interrupting (any) service of 26 days and 23:45 hours. But wait... I'm already paying for steam, by the overpriced (way cheaper boxed games in normal store or other online stores, and oh, wait, Europe pays at least 10% more in steam store also, even if in sale cos 50% off on both sides of the water is still xx % more, for no apparent reason) games I bought (which I cant play cos the inventory is gone, or gets me lagging for steam connect/disconnects, etc), and the items I purchased in game (also higher priced then on US soil), oh wait, cant access those as well. And now that some "event" is started, hence I would WANT to play or trade or chat with friends etc, things are down? I just have NO doubt that this shit will continue for the entire holiday sale: http://store.steampowered.com/holidaysale/ Meh >________________________________ > From: doc <drga...@gmail.com> >To: Mart-Jan Reeuwijk <mreeu...@yahoo.com>; Half-Life dedicated Linux server >mailing list <hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com> >Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 19:16 >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Will steam ever get stable > > >I've always wondered the point of these kind of questions. I guess it's good >to bring up your grievances but what kind of answer will be really satisfying? > >Yes we plan on having it stable sometime - we are working on it. >or >No, everything is working as intended - we mean to have our services up and >down all day. > >And while it's easy to "take an example" it's another thing to implement that >example within a setup/system that has nothing similar to the place you took >the example from. It's like saying my power stays on all day so why doesn't >steam? Just take their example and make the shit work. > > >On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Mart-Jan Reeuwijk <mreeu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >Been disconnecting and connecting like crazy for hours now, sick and tired of >that. Will Valve/Steam ever redesign it that it will be STABLE enough that it >even can handle those usage spikes of their services WITHOUT dropping users or >services? >> >>I know the line "we don't warranty blah" but thats normally a cover up for >>small INCIDENTAL occurances, not for sustained repeated like this over long >>periods without any improvement. Its been near 10 years that steam exists. >>What use is a friendslist if you cant talk with them on steam, what use is a >>community page if its not been served, what use are whatever services if they >>are NOT working, or worse, work like a blinking light: On... OFF.... ON.... >>OFF >> >>It keeps on happening. Get something that actually WORKS, whatever the >>conditions. And build it so, that even if doing maintenance, it doesn't need >>services taken down. >> >>There are enough examples out there that actually can do this, take an >>example, learn from it :S . >>_______________________________________________ >>To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please >>visit: >>https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
