

Which means that a user from the United States can experience downtimes, while for a user from Russia or China everything is fully available. Users are connected to a nearby located server or data center by default. Also based on your location the server status can be different. If there are downtimes they are probably limited to a single service. Steam is made of several independent services. Also, there is the possibility of global network failures that affect the reachability of Steam but also of other web services. Please note that the status of Steam may differ by your location. This includes the Steam Store, Community and the gaming servers for CS:GO, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2.įor the first, Steam downtimes are very rare! But in case something goes wrong there is a big community that will take note of the incident and it turns into a pretty large event. Because Steam (or it's operator Valve) doesn't provide an official way to check the health of its platform, steamstatus.io gives you a simple overview of the current network status. Often millions of users are online at the same time. Steam is the biggest gaming platform in the world.
