Steamed!

[Fisherking]

Steamed!

Okay, so all my newest games are on Steam.

Trouble is that Steam, at least in Germany has been down for about 18 hours now.

No word on when it will come up.

That will at least teach me to never, ever go to online mode unless I want an update or load a new game.

[Vladimir]

[Greyblades]

Weird. All I could think of watching that was how in spite of the rest the CG battledroids still hold up 10 years later.

[Andres]

Did the mines in Germany run out of coal?



I'm here all day.

[frogbeastegg]

That's a nightmare I've had a few times. Got to love that loop of "Error: must be online to go offline".

I managed to work-around it once by turning my router off. For some reason that made offline work as intended instead of grumbling that I wasn't online. Worth a try, if you haven't done that already.

[Monk]

That's a nightmare I've had a few times. Got to love that loop of "Error: must be online to go offline".

I managed to work-around it once by turning my router off. For some reason that made offline work as intended instead of grumbling that I wasn't online. Worth a try, if you haven't done that already.

If steam fails to find an active internet connection after a few minutes it will ask you if you'd like to enable offline instead. That is, when it's feeling like it. As much as I like steam and use it daily, it is incredibly finicky about when it will let you go offline

[frogbeastegg]

If steam fails to find an active internet connection after a few minutes it will ask you if you'd like to enable offline instead. That is, when it's feeling like it. As much as I like steam and use it daily, it is incredibly finicky about when it will let you go offline

Oh yes. Offline mode is my second biggest bugbear with steam now they've fixed a few others. The first being forced integration of owned DLC and the latest patch at all times.

The steam cloud is a bit of a menace too. "Sorry cloud's not available for reasons we won't bother to explain. Your games may or may not be missing stuff. Playing now might mess up your files if you do have any on the cloud. Wanna play anyway?" I don't think I have anything on the cloud, but with steam I never feel certain of anything.

[Fisherking]

That's a nightmare I've had a few times. Got to love that loop of "Error: must be online to go offline".

I managed to work-around it once by turning my router off. For some reason that made offline work as intended instead of grumbling that I wasn't online. Worth a try, if you haven't done that already.

I shot my self in the foot there.

After several login attempts I thought the file was to blame so I reinstalled steam.

I can’t login offline because it tells me there is no saved login information.


It would seem that a few people found a work-around by going to Hot Spots and connecting to servers in the US.

So, tell me why they can’t switch servers here, to rout around the problem? Besides, it is all of Germany and there is more than one server. Why has it taken almost a whole day and still no word of a fix?

Steam is terrible at providing client information to users. That really needs to be addressed.

[Voigtkampf]

Steamrolled?

PS Sorry, I know its cruel, I just...Could not...Resist...