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speaker4thedead Jan 12, 2014 @ 10:25pm
Friends list not auto-connecting
Anyone else having this issue? Been happening a lot lately, for the last couplafew weeks. I will sign into steam but my friends list will be 'disconnected'. I have it set to auto-log me in when i start up steam, so that's not the issue. It doesnt happen EVERY time i sign in either, so im completely at a lose for what the problem is. I use steam from 2 different computers, but i can't see how that would make any difference, even more so since i never have STEAM running on one when i try to use it on the other (work PC and home PC).

Anyone with the same problem? Anyone have any kind of info about this in any way?
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=Axton= May 27, 2014 @ 7:58pm 
When Steam loses connection to Valves servers, the Friends list "says" it will auto reconnect when it becomes available but it never has for me in the past few years when I've been paying attention. Is there a bug log for this issue?
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=Axton= Jun 26, 2014 @ 12:28pm 
Just happened again.
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=Axton= Oct 23, 2014 @ 5:29pm 
Still happening. Do we need it set to "sign in when Steam starts" in Settings?
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speaker4thedead Oct 23, 2014 @ 5:54pm 
Originally posted by Axton:
Still happening. Do we need it set to "sign in when Steam starts" in Settings?

Still happens for me once and a while. I have that option checked off too. It's some other problem they are obviously ignoring.
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=Axton= Feb 18, 2015 @ 3:24pm 
I finally figured out how this works, you need to have the setting turned on in steam settings to auto sign into friends when steam starts. The problem is I don't always want to sign into Friends when Steam starts. Yes that's right.

The solution is to make steam sign back in once we've signed in MANUALLY then keep us at our last state when the Steam servers go down. It happened tonight in fact.

Any response from devs on this yet?
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speaker4thedead Feb 18, 2015 @ 3:39pm 
Originally posted by Axton:
I finally figured out how this works, you need to have the setting turned on in steam settings to auto sign into friends when steam starts. The problem is I don't always want to sign into Friends when Steam starts. Yes that's right.

The solution is to make steam sign back in once we've signed in MANUALLY then keep us at our last state when the Steam servers go down. It happened tonight in fact.

Any response from devs on this yet?

Well... i agree that i don't always want to sign in from the get go and all that, but that option is checked for me. All the time, on all my computers. The issue still persists.

Honestly, i don't know why i even bothered to make a thread about it lol. It's not that i want to sound whiney but Valve is such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ company when it comes to things like this. They STILL DO NOT HAVE A WAY TO TURN OFF THEIR VOICE CHAT. It's 2015, the fact that there is no option to turn their voice chat off is laziness and stupidity of such a high caliber that it really is almost unfathomable to me. For being the leader of digital PC gaming, the way they approach it is often sickeningly sad.
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=Axton= Feb 18, 2015 @ 4:00pm 
Well, the auto sign in is one issue but turning off voice chat is usually a game specific issue, I've seen it work both ways where you can turn off voip and cannot.

I really wish Friends auto sign in would remember your last state and return you to it.
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