Steam Outage Map
The map below depicts the most recent cities worldwide where Steam users have reported problems and outages. If you are having an issue with Steam, make sure to submit a report below
The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.
Steam users affected:
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.
Most Affected Locations
Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:
| Location | Reports |
|---|---|
| Toronto, ON | 2 |
| Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1 |
| Paris, Île-de-France | 13 |
| José María Ezeiza, BA | 1 |
| Aguascalientes, AGU | 1 |
| Vijayawada, AP | 1 |
| Cherbourg-Octeville, Normandy | 1 |
| Lille, Hauts-de-France | 1 |
| Strasbourg, ACAL | 1 |
| Varilhes, Occitanie | 1 |
| Mozzo, Lombardy | 1 |
| Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France | 2 |
| Toluca, MEX | 1 |
| Campinas, SP | 3 |
| Cavaillon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1 |
| Souastre, Hauts-de-France | 1 |
| Parthenay, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1 |
| Solidaridad, Q. Roo | 1 |
| Elne, Occitanie | 1 |
| Cáceres, MT | 1 |
| Ciudad Jardín, MEX | 3 |
| Porto Velho, RO | 1 |
| Montpellier, Occitanie | 1 |
| Surrey, BC | 1 |
| Blois, Centre | 1 |
| Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1 |
| Marília, SP | 1 |
| Machala, El Oro | 1 |
| Mexico City, CDMX | 1 |
| Stony Plain, AB | 1 |
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Steam Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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GOD BLESS A MIRACLE! (MIRACLES HAPPEN EVERY DAY!) (@BruceMakegoo) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Refunds were added due to a legal issue, so steam might not want to push their luck with refunds and risk a new court case/law that forces a policy that is worse for themselves and/or devs. They have had no issue neutering many other features due to abuse already in the past.
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MaximusChaddikus (@MaximusChadikus) reported@Zoroarts @Steam I have a question Steams refund policy has been around how long? And you put this game on steam knowing this why? Sounds like a you problem.
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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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Average Mortis Enjoyer (@MortisEnjoyer) reported@Daewolf @Zoroarts @Steam It is kinda scummy to refund a 5$ game if you enjoyed it, but still, that issue could have been completely avoided if the DLCs were part of the base game (which is lacking in content). A lot of people don't think 5$ is worth it for an hour long game
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Milkshake the Skunkette (@KrauserCusack) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Personally- i never refund a game i have a good time with, but steams refund policy stemms from having to comply with a lot of countries refund policies- like consumer garantees act, etc. The problem stems more from the kind of jsers that do this - not steams policy :(
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Xoey (@Xoey80239413) reported@Zoroarts @Steam The problem is there are a million reasons to refund plenty of games hours and hours into playing them, and two hours is the lowest they can make it practically. Honestly I think it should be 10-20 hours, and isn't because people could do that with Call of Duty.
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BritishDissonance (@Britdissonance) reported@jcrain1991 @Zoroarts @Steam Buddy if the average person can beat it in 2 hours its not worth a pricetag. If the average person can't and the refunds are from people that didn't like it then he's complaining about a non issue. Can't have it both ways.
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Gærsstapa (@gaersstapa) reported@Jeffrey28627067 @Zoroarts @Steam I don't hate them, at no point have I expressed that view. My view is very simple- if you are a dev, and you use steam KNOWING it has a 2 hour refund window, and you make a game less than 2 hours, and you get refunds; THATS YOUR FAULT. You designed it that way and now you have fallen foul of the systems at play. To then request the entire system, that has until this point worked quite well for everybody, be overhauled- is wild. I think the 2 hour window for refunds is good, it allows you breathing space if there are any technical issues with the game, it allows you to do some troubleshooting before refunding, it allows you to do a tutorial and get out into the main game usually, and figure out if its something you want to do.
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Jarad The Sovereign (@bestabyssdad) reported@Zoroarts @Steam cry about it honestly, your niche issue is not going to get in the way of a very good refund policy. make a better game.
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Kanikou Estellia 🎀❤️🔥 (@KanikouEstellia) reported@Zoroarts @Steam I have sympathy, it's kind of hard to fix in a way because some games you legitimately do fight with trying to get to fix which can take time so they would have to track what are those scenarios and people "speedrun > refund", which I don't know if they can through achievements.
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Ric Sin (@Sinric23) reported@Zoroarts @Steam Your direct competitors and peers specifically target the post two hour framing. This isn’t a you nor a player problem at all. Ashes of creation deliberately rug pulled as well as tons of game media. Make a great game.. let em refund.. make more content.. build your brand. Be the difference not saying players should lose autonomy or you sell off the entire gaming community to the filth that has been delivering predatory content in greater and greater measure. Don’t blame steam either .. they are about the only vector creating a legit space for gamers. So.. keep making games. You made 55k people interact, make another game.. get more. Stop trying to turn entire systems into harvest mechanisms the ruin the entire culture and economy.
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CynoSideUp 🍳 (@LiquidEffer) reported@L9FRIENDLYSTYLE @Zoroarts @Steam > Two completely unrelated issues
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ִֶָ (@jaydon8D) reported@Zoroarts @Steam i feel like a ******** for saying it but if someone can play a game within 2 hrs and feel satisfied about it to the point where they'll refund it and never play again that's kind of a dev skill issue i'd think
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Shadow C | 🍔Arbiter🍕 🌭of🥪 🌮Sandwiches🌯 (@ShadowC5) reported@WastingSanity @Zoroarts @Steam But that would be a problem for certain genre of games, no? For example, certain puzzle genres are fundamentally not replayable, especially if the idea/solution to the puzzle requires planning and thought - and not merely some random generation.
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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.
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