Author Topic: What causes this drop in users on steam? (Read 1413 times)

Robo · August 15, 2012, 12:40:22 PM

As you can see, there was a large dip in users online between the yesterday and today for a brief time, perhaps for an hour or so? I've seen this happen on several occasions before and I'm curious as to what the cause could be.

Anyone have any insight?

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TeslaCoil · August 15, 2012, 12:41:32 PM

SHUT

DOWN

EVERYTHING

Tokthree · August 15, 2012, 12:42:29 PM

Steam updates, server downtime, ISP outage.
There are many potential causes

e-maxx · August 15, 2012, 12:43:07 PM

steam servers were down as forget yesterday

Kalphiter · August 15, 2012, 12:46:26 PM

Poor server management.

What more to say?

Robo · August 15, 2012, 12:46:49 PM

If the servers were down, why are there still about a million people online? I would think it would be either all or nothing :/

Qwepir · August 15, 2012, 12:48:07 PM

holy stuff its robo :O

Tokthree · August 15, 2012, 12:48:54 PM

Quote from: Robo on August 15, 2012, 12:46:49 PM

If the servers were down, why are there still about a million people online? I would think it would be either all or nothing :/

Fairly certain Steam has localized servers

Robo · August 15, 2012, 12:51:08 PM

Quote from: Qwepir on August 15, 2012, 12:48:07 PM

holy stuff its robo :O

yes, yes it is. I'm surprised someone recognizes me, I don't really remember doing anything significant in this community...

Quote from: Tokthree on August 15, 2012, 12:48:54 PM

Fairly certain Steam has localized servers

I think I know what that means, but I'm not sure I understand 100%, what is a localized server?

Freeze · August 15, 2012, 12:53:16 PM

Quote from: Robo on August 15, 2012, 12:51:08 PM

yes, yes it is. I'm surprised someone recognizes me, I don't really remember doing anything significant in this community...

I think I know what that means, but I'm not sure I understand 100%, what is a localized server?

multiple servers throughout the world so that if one goes down the rest dont need to
and yes they do have them

Megaguy2 · August 15, 2012, 12:53:57 PM

The steam servers are run in Madagascar and they heard there was a cold going round, so they shut down the servers for a few hours and went to hide in a box

Robo · August 15, 2012, 12:55:59 PM

Quote from: Megaguy2 on August 15, 2012, 12:53:57 PM

The steam servers are run in Madagascar and they heard there was a cold going round, so they shut down the servers for a few hours and went to hide in a box

Seems Legit.

Wynd_Fox · August 15, 2012, 01:09:03 PM

Madagascar is renowned for thinking Steam servers transmit viruses.

Robo · August 15, 2012, 01:11:26 PM

Well that explains the outage, good thing it only lasted an hour.

rockslide26 · August 15, 2012, 02:09:21 PM

Quote from: Megaguy2 on August 15, 2012, 12:53:57 PM

The steam servers are run in Madagascar and they heard there was a cold going round, so they shut down the servers for a few hours and went to hide in a box

Reminded me of this