Steam maintenance disconnects us from the match?!!

[Plastic War Beast]

Like seriously steam? Its 2024, they should change their maintenance system already. No other app I have seen does maintenance like this by putting all the servers down.
I am so pissed, this happened twice. Today and last Tuesday, me and my friend enter the extract pelican and steam goes down. This is dumb, there are many other online games which don't disconnect me from match due to steam maintenance.

[Chris]

Mental Note: Don't play this on Maintenance Tuesdays.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by Lestat2150:

Its just like blizzard's tuesday maintenance. Except blizzard is smart and does it very early on Tuesday. Not 3 PM PST when alot of people in the US are getting off work.

It's likely the smart time for Steam to do it too, I doubt they'd be doing maintenance on tuesday's around this time for all these years if that wasn't the case.

[Zephron]

Originally posted by YippeeKai-Yay:

How to herp derp, thanks for the step by step OP

It's every Tuesday, same time, for nearly 2 decades now.

Steam is a distribution platform. Not "exactly" a service provider. They KNOW when things are planned to go down, yet they do not plan for this eventuality?

[Seath]

I will blame this on the devs relying on Steam servers...k?

[Purr]

Originally posted by Plastic War Beast:

Originally posted by Gary Granola:

It happens the same day around the same time every week. Do something else during that time.

Ikr. But not always I have it in my head that today is Tuesday and it's maintenance time for steam. Like why should I even remember that at first place? Lol

i remember my main game maint's my main mmo every wed morning, icarus every friday steam usualy on tues blizzard when i used to play was also on tues how do u not know? u should know so u can plan accordinly yeah it sucks yeah it shouldnt happen i agree but it does happen and we should bet on the safe side plus its usualy a few mins long

[Plastic War Beast]

Originally posted by Zephron:

Originally posted by Nitemares:

Talk to Steam.
Their system, their downtime, their decision. Arrowhead is just along for the ride.

The ♥♥♥♥ they are... PLENTY of live service games are available during steam "down time".

It's not steam, its games fault for disconnecting us due to steam's maintenance. Cause many other game's out their like Call of Duty, Halo don't do this.

[Zephron]

Originally posted by Plastic War Beast:

Originally posted by Zephron:

The ♥♥♥♥ they are... PLENTY of live service games are available during steam "down time".

It's not steam, its games fault for disconnecting us due to steam's maintenance. Cause many other game's out their like Call of Duty, Halo don't do this.

You are VERY right here.

[Doko]

All clients and servers need to be down for a maintenance period, that's how scheduled maintenance works.

I play WoW, and Blizzard has their weekly maintenance scheduled every Tue night/Wed morning, so I remember not to play WoW during that period of time.

Valve has theirs every Tue Evening, so I remember not to play any online based games during that time window.

[Zephron]

Originally posted by Squishy:

Don't blame Steam, blame live service games that don't accompany a server for people to play on that even if steam goes down, you can still play with people.

Steam Remote Play Together still works when Steam is on maintenance so long as you're still connected to someone before the servers go down. Countless online games still works when Steam is on maintenance. There's no excuse other than laziness, neglect and lack of attention on a developer's part when their game is a live service.

MMORPGs are never affected by Steam being down. (For obvious reasons)

^ this ^

[Wulfen]

Originally posted by Plastic War Beast:

Like seriously steam? Its 2024, they should change their maintenance system already. No other app I have seen does maintenance like this by putting all the servers down.
I am so pissed, this happened twice. Today and last Tuesday, me and my friend enter the extract pelican and steam goes down. This is dumb, there are many other online games which don't disconnect me from match due to steam maintenance. :angry_creep:

Yes and no other App is anywhere CLOSE as well maintained and functional as Steam. Get over it. It happens every tuesday around this time

[YippeeKai-Yay]

Originally posted by Zephron:

Originally posted by YippeeKai-Yay:

How to herp derp, thanks for the step by step OP

It's every Tuesday, same time, for nearly 2 decades now.

Steam is a distribution platform. Not "exactly" a service provider. They KNOW when things are planned to go down, yet they do not plan for this eventuality?

Peak armchair developing

/thread

[Zephron]

Originally posted by Wulfen:

Originally posted by Plastic War Beast:

Like seriously steam? Its 2024, they should change their maintenance system already. No other app I have seen does maintenance like this by putting all the servers down.
I am so pissed, this happened twice. Today and last Tuesday, me and my friend enter the extract pelican and steam goes down. This is dumb, there are many other online games which don't disconnect me from match due to steam maintenance. :angry_creep:

Yes and no other App is anywhere CLOSE as well maintained and functional as Steam. Get over it. It happens every tuesday around this time

Does the rubber just taste good, or what? As stated, there are plenty of games, AAA, independent, even otherwise that does not determine their player base will not be, at least trying, to play during their distributors "down time". Especially with PvE games.

[Zephron]

Originally posted by YippeeKai-Yay:

Originally posted by Zephron:

Steam is a distribution platform. Not "exactly" a service provider. They KNOW when things are planned to go down, yet they do not plan for this eventuality?

Peak armchair developing :BL3Facepalm:

/thread

Mkay pumpkin. Chime back in when you have something useful. I'll be here.

[Zaosis]

What happens if this happens in 2025? Illegal?