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Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation offering digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer gaming and social networking services. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. Available on Window, Mac OS and Playstation.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Steam users through our website.
- Sign in (52%)
- Glitches (26%)
- Online Play (17%)
- Game Crash (2%)
- Matchmaking (1%)
- Hacking / Cheating (1%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Steam outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Limeil-Brévannes
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Glitches | 2 days ago |
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Angeot
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Glitches | 2 days ago |
 Bucaramanga
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Fréjus
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Glitches | 2 days ago |
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Beauvais
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Strasbourg
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Glitches | 2 days ago |
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Steam Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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SpaceYeeHaw (@SpaceGirlYeeHaw) reported@Zoroarts @Steam I hope steam does nothing, you should have made a game that takes longer then the refund time and provide enough content to go past the refund time, if you can't do that then thats your problem.
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Zehlia (@ZehliaGaming) reported@Maxim_Drw @Zoroarts @Steam "Its a ****** game, but fun" if you had fun, its not a ****** game. And if the game is ****, you cant have fun By that first sentence alone, you cant be taken serious and are part of the problem
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The Tea Virus (@TheTeaVirus) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Sorry no. Just make your game take longer than 2 hours to beat. You're not the first one with this issue but this is a great policy for consumer rights. I'll never buy a game from someone trying to change that.
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Nekked Molerat (@nekkedmolerat) reported@Zoroarts @Steam The problem isn't Steams refund policy.
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Useless (@mustafa27007713) reported@Zoroarts @Steam i dont see this as steam fault,2 hours is such a good time window to experience a game especially if its a big pvp paid game (see marathon). now its for sure annoying for people to refund you even tho they loved your game but thats more of people issue then steam issue.
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Todd (Fox) (@Fox_Todd0370) reported@Zoroarts @Steam And with games like peak, how would that play with your soultion? Replay-ability seems to be the problem here, but go ahead and continue your cope.
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Psykatomique productions (@Psykatomique) reported@Zoroarts @Steam At this point, if you sell a game that is less than 2 hour... the gamer is not the problem here... We have more and more games on steam, i would rather have half and more consistent.
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SSameerHRizvi (@SSameerHRizvi) reported@gog you can solve this problem. Create a reasonable refund policy. When refund time has expired then the owner of the game gets to download the installer, not before. Platform like @Steam and GOG needs to support developers too, not just gamers. Otherwise the industry is dead.
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Dani (@sqronce) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Yeah, I think that sucks, though I'm not sure if there is a better system for Steam to have. I dunno if they'd be able to have second pool of games with a different refund policy without causing too much broad confusion. Though I've put very little thought into the problem.
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Virileth (@VirilethDerg) reported@Ain_Macdougal @Zoroarts @Steam You just can't have a refund policy unless it's broken, defective, or not as advertised. Sure people will ***** about no refunds, but that's only because they want to steal. We don't have the kind of high trust society needed to allow for refunds.
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Cørey (@coreyVMG) reportedFix your **** @Steam
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Mikey B (@TheUPSboy) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Sounds like a you problem
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Posh Indie (@PoshIndie) reported@Zoroarts @Steam The problem here is "Your expected playtime" is not "Their expected playtime", and dishonest developers will pad those numbers just to erase the possibility of refunds on short games. The best solution is to just make the game longer, unfortunately. Everything else is abusable.
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gfodor.id (@gfodor) reported@OlexGameDev @Zoroarts @Steam I don’t need to provide a solution to avoid concluding there isn’t one. I’m pretty confident it can be solved, it’s rooted in a classification problem. I have like 5-10 ideas just sitting that I would try if I worked at Valve and cared enough to try to fix it.
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Azrhenia (@Azrhenia) reportedHey @Steam Will you delete my account if I'm not login for 10 years?
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MR.SOLACE (@oopsallsolace) reported@Zoroarts @Steam There's a community behind this, where people challenge themselves to beat a game under the refund time. Make your game longer and this will not be an issue.
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johnny utah (@vinnychase1764) reported@Steam your support sucks. You won’t refund a game that has under 4 hours of play time. You see all the reviews. It’s broken.
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no one (@dimipossum) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Dont make games under 2 hours, if you cant its not my Problem. I refund
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Demielle Tournes 🧩📷 VT (Otokonoko👗) (@DemieTournes) reported@TheRealJTV4K60 @Steam And what ******** this has to do with Sony's anti consumer practices? 99% the issue here is about Sony having ****** practices by revoking licenses and closing their older stores without having proper backwards compatibility. And for what do you want those PS5 pro specs? to run badly optimized ****** bloated PS5 exclusives? Also PC is an open ended platform with multiple storefronts and ways to own your games. Seriouysly, you low IQ neanderthals can barely breath with how deep sony's **** is inside your throats.
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ragegun (@_ragegun) reported@Timebringer @Steam As it is, 2 hours is barely enough time to try and troubleshoot, if you have issues launching a game... and it already encourages you to refund if the game essentially isn't working properly on your machine.
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Xenos (Ambassador Of Indie Games) (@WrenchOfChaos) reported@PotatoCrispDip @Steam I agree that's on them for submitting a short game and acting surprised when they happened, you really just shouldn't submit a short game to Steam in it's current state if you don't want returns, but that doesn't mean it's still a problem that Steam should (and can) fix.
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bluglothree (@bluglothree) reported@Zoroarts @Steam This is an issue with the PC playerbase being entitled and cheap, which is why we can’t have nice things.
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MistahWolfe (@mistah_wolfe) reported@Zoroarts @Steam First of all, SUPER weird that people are trying to bully the dev for this opinion despite it being 100% justified Second, IDK how to fix this because Steam's refund Policy is SO good for gamers. So many games straight up lie these days id never buy without it
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Dingo Love Simulator (@dingoman5001) reported@Zoroarts @Steam I'm sorry but that is your problem for making a game with barely a triple-digit minute runtime
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Thiz (17-3 2x SUPERBOWL CHAMPS) (@Thizlam87) reported@Zoroarts @Steam I think the fix to this is to not make a game that is under 2 hours long. Steam shouldn’t change the 2 hour limit for refunds, I personally think it should be 3 hours.
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Szdeba (@szdeban) reported@Zoroarts @Steam This is not a Steam issue, but a game issue. It is necessary to better attract players, replay value, difficulties, special achievements, and so on. And 2 hours is the average demo time.
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StockStackr (@VeganCatBounce) reported@Steam I understand security but I will not digit code press your captchas. I guess I can't play War of Rights cause you are more intersted in farming my data than providing me a service?
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cracinlac (@burnme121107) reported@Chriss_m @Zoroarts @Steam do you watch a movie and then demand your money back because it was only an hour and a half long? and clearly the quality of the game isnt a problem because people are literally saying they enjoyed it but still refunding it. its bad for the developer who is a person with needs
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gfodor.id (@gfodor) reported@OlexGameDev @Zoroarts @Steam I see. you said you see no issues, which implied to me you thought there was literally no problem here. there's a problem, clearly, but you just don't think there are any solutions to it. in an ideal world, people wouldn't be able to play entire paid games for free.
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gfodor.id (@gfodor) reported@OlexGameDev @Zoroarts @Steam I don’t need to provide a solution to avoid concluding there isn’t one. I’m pretty confident it can be solved, it’s rooted in a classification problem. I have like 5-10 ideas just sitting here that I would try if I worked at Valve and cared enough to try to fix it.