# Steam!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 6, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868 "2010-02-06T00:56:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868/1 "2010-02-06T00:56:31Z")

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You piece of shit.

Second night in a row I’ve been disconnected from steam after earning a new rank in MW2.  
AHHHHHHH!  
Is there a website where one can find out when steam plans on being down? Or a way of finding how long it’ll be down for?

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868/2 "2010-02-06T04:45:52Z")

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Yeah, I love how it says scheduled maintenance but it wasn’t mentioned anywhere until after you get booted.

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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868/3 "2010-02-06T07:44:39Z")

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Huh…it was up for me earlier. I bought the new Elite Units of the East DLC for Empire this morning.

-XT

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868/4 "2010-02-06T08:19:11Z")

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Scheduled maintenance was announced both on the news ticker and in a pop-up news window.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam/527868/5 "2010-02-06T17:25:24Z")

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> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> Scheduled maintenance was announced both on the news ticker and in a pop-up news window.

But that would require us to actually pay attention to that stuff. Using the internet has conditioned us not to. 😃

Joking aside. I think downtime announcements should have a popup all of their own, to make it obvious. Not hiding amongst a bunch of other news that nobody pays attention to.  
**xtisme** The second night it went down for a shorter period (while I was earning my 58th rank, for the second time, so I’ve ranked up to 58 three times now)