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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.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Steam users through our website.

  • 52% Sign in (52%)
  • 28% Glitches (28%)
  • 16% Online Play (16%)
  • 2% Game Crash (2%)
  • 1% Matchmaking (1%)
  • 1% Hacking / Cheating (1%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Steam outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Registro Glitches 12 hours ago
Mantes-la-Jolie Sign in 16 hours ago
Avignon Glitches 2 days ago
Unias Glitches 4 days ago
Paris Sign in 4 days ago
Bressuire Sign in 4 days ago
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Steam Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Azrhenia
    Azrhenia (@Azrhenia) reported

    Hey @Steam Will you delete my account if I'm not login for 10 years?

  • RickTrajan
    RickTrajan (@RickTrajan) reported

    @gaersstapa @Zoroarts @Steam The problem with this mindset is it encourages prolonging a game rather than doing what it's meant to do (telling a story, good multiplayer setup, or whatever a game you want it to be). It's like word count on essays, vehicles being predominantly suvs and trucks in US, etc.

  • ricanteja
    Ricky (@ricanteja) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam Easy fix for this is to add trophies to track progression. If a user has unlocked almost all achievements in almost two hours, you can’t get a refund. Of course trophies placement in game has to be balanced, maybe some should be a little out of the way to get.

  • willemt1981
    Willem (@willemt1981) reported

    @GamingCentral26 The subscription isn't the issue. It's ownership and recovery. Digital libraries only work if verified owners can regain access after a compromise. @Steam has shown this is possible for years.

  • ItsChefreyOS
    Michael Eskenasy (@ItsChefreyOS) reported

    Hey @Steam people…I’ve been saying this for weeks, your coordination is broken…

  • veerrn
    Vernon Black (@veerrn) reported

    @Steam any idea when going to address 🤔 this outage you have with customers

  • Turbopumpkin1
    Turbopumpkin (@Turbopumpkin1) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam Good games don't have this issue

  • SE_Apocalypse
    Apocalypse (@SE_Apocalypse) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam Have you ever thought to find other devs with similar nice and short games and release them as compilation instead? You avoid that 2 hours issue that way. 21% refund rate ... still sounds like most people who enjoy the game do want to give you money for it. 11% goes to charity.

  • PAVRGAME
    PAVRGAME (@PAVRGAME) reported

    @Steam @MetaQuestVR Our error, the game sales ends July 9th, not the 5th. there are a few more days for the official Steam sale. Thank you!

  • AkebiAkira
    KasherAkasha (@AkebiAkira) reported

    @Indulgence82 @Zoroarts @Steam “Skill issue” Lowkey I think you should kill yourself

  • GnomeKr
    GnomeK (@GnomeKr) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam You made a 4 dollar rage bait game about paddling with your friend you can beat under 2 hours without even trying to. Of course people are gonna refund it, you're not gonna keep an empty burger wrap after eating the bruger. Problem is with the game, not the system.

  • Namelesschicke2
    Nameless chicken (@Namelesschicke2) reported

    @MythThrazz @Zoroarts @Steam The problem is what if I spend say 40-1 hour trying to get a game to work and fail? Why would I not get my money back for that?

  • spoocle
    SpoocleMacBoogle (@spoocle) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam This is so stupid, I just can't. With one tweet, he decided to screw over both buyers and short-game developers at the same time. Your refund rate is tied exclusively to your game! I've been making short games for years, and all of my decent games have a refund rate of 5–7%. Games that are less interesting or worse have a much higher rate. It has nothing to do with length. This is not a widespread issue like you're trying to make it out to be — and you only have ONE such review, after all. Moreover, God forbid Steam listens to you or anyone like you in the future. That would immediately hit short games first. So you want a buyer to take a risk buying a short game from an unknown developer, and on top of that, also have to deal with some refund hassle? Well, congratulations — now they'll think twice before buying such a game. And this is despite the fact that, I repeat, this is not a widespread problem. But I'm sure you know that, and you stirred all this up just to boost your sales, just like other devs did before you. Buddy, you've already made enough money, okay? Why act like evil buyers are exploiting the Steam system and ruining a poor developer with hundreds of thousands of sales? You've made small games yourself before. What, not enough money? Why turn into an AAA company and attack people who have the right to refunds? What's wrong with you? @Zoroarts

  • Britdissonance
    BritishDissonance (@Britdissonance) reported

    @jcrain1991 @Zoroarts @Steam The irony in calling me a simpleton when you're clearly a complete retard, good lord. Now you're making the argument that steam policy should change on one review? My whole point is either most people are refunding after beating it in under 2 hours, in which case its not worth the money, or they are refunding it for other reasons which is a non issue. Either way this dev is complaining about nothing.

  • SpaceGirlYeeHaw
    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.

  • shadesofsilver
    Danny Silvers (@shadesofsilver) reported

    @SandorHQ @Zoroarts @Steam Not to say that the price isn't right here. It absolutely is. What we really have is a cultural problem, and that's not something Steam can fix. Steam can't force its audience to grow up.

  • Fox_Todd0370
    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.

  • karibuwu
    Caribouwu (@karibuwu) reported

    @BryceGuilbert @Zoroarts @Steam For me the test is for those who can only think with dichotomies and blame "If we changed things to accommodate you it might get worse in general so you should stop being so selfish. Go suffer in silence." No compromise? This problem isn't unique and complex

  • TAW_Odoq
    Odoq (@TAW_Odoq) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam seems like a sinple fix... have a steam achievement when you beat the game. If you get the achievement you can't refund the game...

  • AshleyToy_Real
    ♡🇳🇴🐞🛠️Toy🪀♡|She♀️|🌸🏳️‍⚧️|rants bout etc~| (@AshleyToy_Real) reported

    Need to do smt @RockstarGames have issue with L.A Noir en on @Steam

  • priyasharmiyi
    Priya Sharma (@priyasharmiyi) reported

    @monteslu @Steam_Support @Steam controller issues are rough

  • tommyownzall
    Tom (@tommyownzall) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam I found the problem. Make your game have some content so people play it for more than 2 hours.

  • isawarenshi
    isawarenshi (@isawarenshi) reported

    @Ian_Fisch @Zoroarts @Steam The issue is define short in both cases and don't make the policy too unwieldly for actual use.

  • Ian_Fisch
    Ian Fisch - Lead Coder on Kingmakers (wishlist!) (@Ian_Fisch) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam I think they should have an option to publish a “short” game with a shorter refund window. The problem is that you’d have to make the player aware of this when he buys, and I don’t think they want to be drawing more attention to the refund policy. That could easily backfire and lead to a higher rate of refund. I don’t have a good solution here.

  • OperaOfTheLC
    InquisitorIrene (@OperaOfTheLC) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam That’s such a trashy move, why is 2 hours the standard still? There needs to be better ways to issue refunds rather than just a standard 2 hours.

  • Shedewff1
    Shedewff🐀 (@Shedewff1) reported

    @Zoroarts @Steam make a game worth keeping after people finish it idk this is NOT a common problem

  • m_Crom_m
    Ḛ̴͓̹̫͈̤͈̿́͝ļ̶̖͋͒̉͂̽̃́̈́̽͛l̸͓̬̦̫̩̄͛̾̈́́͑̉͒̈̈́̐͘͝a̵̍ (@m_Crom_m) reported

    @prestonjbyrne my twitter 12 (2014) creating an account at 6 makes me 18? my google account is older I watched a minecraft video and it said "hold up a minute!! were not sure how old you are" like **** you don't know @Google b!tches. 22 years @Steam long service badge and they want my id too

  • Pyr0Mander
    Pyr0mander (@Pyr0Mander) reported

    @BenderFondue @Zoroarts @Steam Also you can't even try to refund a game if you played over 2 hours, so just make the game longer. Also from what he said in the thread its only speedrunners that can play it under 2 hours, so a minority of gamers. Seems like a non issue to me

  • maxieaftermdnyt
    Maxie 🎮 Bloodstained CotM | Visions of Mana (@maxieaftermdnyt) reported

    @PlayStation If I wanna play co-op games, I’d rather play on @Steam No need to pay for multiplayer for online co-op. And they have good customer service when it comes to digital purchases, which you DON’T Ya sure can REALLY afford to go discless? #NoDiscNoBuy

  • OmegaSaiyanX
    AJ 🐦 aka SuperSaiyan4 (@OmegaSaiyanX) reported

    I have gone many years (more than 3yrs) not going on my @Steam account and you know what? I never lost any game or service that I had paid for. They are still there! Eat that @Sony @PlayStation