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UncleSmoothie
03-18-2008, 08:20 PM
I bought Portal tonight and deleted a bunch of stuff to make room for it, only to have Steam tell me that the servers are too busy and to try back in a few minutes. It's said that for hours.

Some light Googling leads me to believe that this is a pretty frequent problem with Steam, though I have used Steam for years and never encountered this. There's lots of tricks online for getting around the issue, like deleting your BLOB files.

Anyone have a preferred trick for fixing this? I suspect that Steam will be giving me this error forever unless I do something. I've already tried uninstalling/reinstalling Steam, to no avail.
Alex Handy
03-18-2008, 08:41 PM
I just got an invalid ticket error in TF2, but there were a buncha other people playing when i crashed out.
UncleSmoothie
03-18-2008, 08:43 PM
Well I'll be damned: it just started working. Fixed through the magical power of my bellyaching!
Igor Muravyev
03-18-2008, 10:09 PM
I just got an invalid ticket error in TF2, but there were a buncha other people playing when i crashed out.

Been getting this every minute for an hour. I'm fed up... I hope they fix it by tomorrow.
UncleSmoothie
03-18-2008, 10:27 PM
Yup, not long after Steam started downloading Portal, it stopped just as inexplicably. Oh well, going to bed.
nabeel
03-19-2008, 12:17 AM
The friends list module was offline and gave a message that it was undergoing "routine maintenance", though I was able to use the game browser and download a game on it fine. It's all back up now anyway.
Igor Muravyev
03-19-2008, 07:42 AM
Check out these stats.. notice the spike and also the players at the lowest point was 2x lower than ever before in the last 48 hours.
http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=stats

If they were doing maintenance, shouldn't have they been doing this at night? If they weren't, how did they manage to screw up the entire system so badly?
UncleSmoothie
03-19-2008, 07:54 AM
That's weird. I checked Steam before I left for the office this morning, and Portal was at 100%, so things must have straighted up at some point.

If you ask me, they ought to be doing maintenance during the day US time, when most Steam customers are at work.