I can't remember the last time that Steam went down due to a game release. Maybe it was coincidental if they were having issues, but it would be a first.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to remember the excitement and horror of the half life 2 release. They've had a massive CDN backing them for ages now though.

Also did I just spot an Irish Lemmy server?

[–] padraig@caint.ie 3 points 2 days ago

khannie@lemmy.world for the HL2 release, it was probably more of a challenge given how young Steam was at the time.

Not Lemmy, but nodeBB. :)

[–] dvlsg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Part of the problem is there were no preorders, so all of those people need to get through payment processing too.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

episodes like this used to make working the night shift at a NOC a lot of fun because i got to spend time with all the daywalkers who were pulling extra long shifts to make sure that the rollout went smoothly (it never did) and i also felt like the smartest person in the room because my mind was fresh while theirs had been tired out for going nonstop for the last 20ish hours. lol

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Happened for deltarune as well