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Posted December 23, 2016
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Painted_Doll: " Currently Steam is down"

Honestly , who cares ?
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mechmouse: Didn't you read my entire post

My daughter

But me... I'm doing the happy dance of smugness
Now aim for the punchline and gift her the gog version of Civ4 :D
Posted December 23, 2016
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qwixter: That was my first thought too. If it was due to overload, it would have happened yesterday.

Per OP, your daughter should just be able to switch to offline and play. I have the family pc setup for offline and it works fine.
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mechmouse: Nope. She using her account (because it has her friend list) and CIV5 is my game. SFS games don't play if borrower is offline.
Ok, I have never played around with that feature. I just use the same account, then on other PC, it always has to be used offline.
Posted December 23, 2016
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mechmouse: Currently Steam is down, or at least seriously hobbled by the huge number of people rushing to buy cheap games they will never actually play.

One unfortunate side effect of this is my Daughter can't play my SFS "shared" copy of CIV5.

She has had access to my 80 game steam library since I left the platform 3 years ago and has enjoyed mocking me over my No-Steam stance.

I feel so smug!
This is definitely more than a rush of customers. This is a DDoS.

This just shows why we need to "diversify our portfolios"...I've started to buy games on GoG for these very events. It's not like you have to "change teams", but there is no reason to not buy a game from GoG once in a while, especially when it's the same price or cheaper.
Posted December 23, 2016
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mechmouse: Currently Steam is down, or at least seriously hobbled by the huge number of people rushing to buy cheap games they will never actually play.
I doubt that's the reason, since Steam was working fine yesterday, and the start of the sale is when the largest number of crowds gathers. I'm guessing it's a DDOS or something.
Posted December 23, 2016
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mechmouse: Currently Steam is down, or at least seriously hobbled by the huge number of people rushing to buy cheap games they will never actually play.
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kalirion: I doubt that's the reason, since Steam was working fine yesterday, and the start of the sale is when the largest number of crowds gathers. I'm guessing it's a DDOS or something.
I suspect it's the gog linux users!
Posted December 23, 2016
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mechmouse: Didn't you read my entire post

My daughter

But me... I'm doing the happy dance of smugness
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anothername: Now aim for the punchline and gift her the gog version of Civ4 :D
I've offered to install my copy of CIV4, but she's playing with a friend.

I did offer to buy her friend a copy of CIV4, but not sure how to play CIV4 online multiplayer.
Posted December 23, 2016
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kalirion: I doubt that's the reason, since Steam was working fine yesterday, and the start of the sale is when the largest number of crowds gathers. I'm guessing it's a DDOS or something.
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qwixter: I suspect it's the gog linux users!
Please refer to my earlier post.
Posted December 23, 2016
Not nearly dead enough. Ah well, we can dream.
Posted December 23, 2016
R.I.P.

Internal combustion engines are the future I guess.
Posted December 23, 2016
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qwixter: I suspect it's the gog linux users!
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Emob78: Please refer to my earlier post.
Wow, you totally called it. You are amazing.
Posted December 23, 2016
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Emob78: Please refer to my earlier post.
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qwixter: Wow, you totally called it. You are amazing.
No. I've just been on the internetz too long. Everything starts repeating itself after a while. Like that fucking cat in the Matrix. Someone keeps hitting the RESET button.
Posted December 23, 2016
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RayRay13000: 2016 has claimed its final victim.
Shhhhh! '16 isn't over yet... ;)
Posted December 23, 2016
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qwixter: I suspect it's the gog linux users!
:DDDDD
Posted December 23, 2016
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fishbaits: Unusually, it's almost all of steam that is dead.
Normally it's just a few parts.

https://steamstat.us/

Yet more proof that DRM is shite.
You do know that you can play your games even if Steam is down?
Posted December 23, 2016
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mechmouse: Currently Steam is down, or at least seriously hobbled by the huge number of people rushing to buy cheap games they will never actually play.

One unfortunate side effect of this is my Daughter can't play my SFS "shared" copy of CIV5.

She has had access to my 80 game steam library since I left the platform 3 years ago and has enjoyed mocking me over my No-Steam stance.

I feel so smug!
Can't she settle for Civilization III (or IV)?
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