Why is the steam market so glitchy?

[Solid Loach]

There's no excuse for the steam market to keep giving errors and not loading pages of skins but the first page of cases load up just fine. Just try going to the cs2 market, filter for a specific gun and press the price button to try and load the cheapest skins first and you'll get nothing but constant errors. VALVE FIX SOMETHING FOR ONCE.

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using a browser script?

[Sethioz]

Originally posted by Solid Loach:

There's no excuse for the steam market to keep giving errors and not loading pages of skins but the first page of cases load up just fine. Just try going to the cs2 market, filter for a specific gun and press the price button to try and load the cheapest skins first and you'll get nothing but constant errors. VALVE FIX SOMETHING FOR ONCE.

entire steam web-related side haven't been working for past year. when using steam overlay web browser, pages stop loading half way thru. it happens about 70% of the time. even google or duckduckgo won't load, it stops loading. i have to refresh the page for it to load, but even then it sometimes still won't load and i have to reload multiple times.

same happens on market, often when i search for specific cs2 item, it says "no results found", even tho i copy-pasted the item name. often i have to refresh the page multiple times and it still won't work.

another bug is that price won't show when clicking on item on inventory. usually it shows price at bottom, but sometimes it disappears.

sometimes it also says that no items are on sale, even tho when i search for the item, there's tons of them for sale, but when i click on item in my inventory, in the price field it says no items are up for sale, so i can't see what price it has.

same with community discussion pages, they're not loading properly.

and NO, nothing wrong with my internet, cuz it only happens in steam client and steam web browser (when using overlay), firefox and chrome are working perfectly fine.

i once had to login in firefox, cuz market wasn't working via steam client, but worked fine in firefox.

i contacted support and they instantly blamed it on me ... typical.

[HaŦŦrick ✓ 🛠 🗽]

steam community market is hitting bottom of the barrel efficiency when it comes to search. have to hit reload 3-4 -5 times just to see a common search result.

[r]

steam community market as bad as vac lol

[g0x79]

Two possible reasons for that :
-Steam servers can't handle billions of scripted bots that making tons of cash
-Steam doing this on purpose to stop bots / people with extensions to earn ez cash

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Originally posted by r:

steam community market as bad as vac lol

community market feels like its getting the after-thought treatment, yeah sorta like VAC

[fayah]

Absolutely!! It has been imposible for me to buy skins i was looking for. I do a search, it throws error. If it passes, i try to sort alphabetically, it throws error. if it passes, i try to look at page two, it throws error. Then i'm done with it.

[sneape]

Originally posted by fayah:

Absolutely!! It has been imposible for me to buy skins i was looking for. I do a search, it throws error. If it passes, i try to sort alphabetically, it throws error. if it passes, i try to look at page two, it throws error. Then i'm done with it.

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[Chiyoko]

Most likely because there are tons of bots that are parsing market for special items (cheaper ones, with stickers, patterns and so on).

[Pere Obo]

Originally posted by Ruby:

Most likely because there are tons of bots that are parsing market for special items (cheaper ones, with stickers, patterns and so on).

Probably correct, but high traffic and bots are a fact of life for any high profile web site. They should have a server architecture set up that is able to handle it. I've seen items I've purchased still listed 10 minutes later, so they're doing a lot of caching but somehow it's still not nearly good enough.

It's frustrating because I have items for sale and I know people can't even get to the pages where they are listed.

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[ktulu84]

Valve's servers in general are just so fragile for some reason. It cant handle that much traffic sometimes

[Levy]

yeah it just doesn't work anymore for me. I've gotten it to work 1-2 times the past two months of weekly attempts