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Based on Valves inability to update DOTA2 without 3-5 days of no server accesss, every time they update... I have absolutely NO hope for SteamOS...

philliphaydon 13y ago
Clearly theres no gamers posting in this thread then.
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago
  Valve is doing a pretty good job in my experience. I don't play DOTA, but I was pretty hardcore CS gamer for a time.
  - philliphaydon 13y ago
    The last 4 major updates to DOTA 2, have been unplayable for about 2-5 days. They did an update earlier today, my friend in Australia hasn't played all day because servers are down. I can't play in Singapore at 2-10am, servers are still down... http://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/648814395709439676/ http://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/648814395709...
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    Unfortunately, he's right. I applaud Valve's focus to Linux, but DOTA Linux has had major bugs for months now (the most severe of which is the game taking 1-2 minutes to load and timing out, whereas Windows on the same machine loads in a few seconds). They don't seem to really want to fix the errors, as all my friends are having the same problem, so it's not exactly hard to reproduce.
kyrra 13y ago
Dota2 is Valve's first multiplayer game where they run all the servers themselves. It's also their most popular game (by a factor of 10x) [0]. Scaling to that number of players takes a lot of work, and from what I've seen (comments from Valve devs), their devops team is only 2 people [1]. The current server instability has to do with a large patch (550MB) sent out yesterday that added a new game mode that is actually an addon[2]. This addon system looks fairly new and may be taking its toll on the servers. [0] http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ [1] http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=83787&page=24&p=777194&viewfull=1#post777194 http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=83787&page=24&p=777194... [2] http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dota-2-12th-december-patch-content-analysis/1100-353/ http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dota-2-12th-december-patch-... (search for "custom addon")

philliphaydon 13y ago

Clearly theres no gamers posting in this thread then.

TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago
Valve is doing a pretty good job in my experience. I don't play DOTA, but I was pretty hardcore CS gamer for a time.
- philliphaydon 13y ago
  The last 4 major updates to DOTA 2, have been unplayable for about 2-5 days. They did an update earlier today, my friend in Australia hasn't played all day because servers are down. I can't play in Singapore at 2-10am, servers are still down... http://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/648814395709439676/ http://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/648814395709...
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Unfortunately, he's right. I applaud Valve's focus to Linux, but DOTA Linux has had major bugs for months now (the most severe of which is the game taking 1-2 minutes to load and timing out, whereas Windows on the same machine loads in a few seconds). They don't seem to really want to fix the errors, as all my friends are having the same problem, so it's not exactly hard to reproduce.

kyrra 13y ago

Dota2 is Valve's first multiplayer game where they run all the servers themselves. It's also their most popular game (by a factor of 10x) [0]. Scaling to that number of players takes a lot of work, and from what I've seen (comments from Valve devs), their devops team is only 2 people [1]. The current server instability has to do with a large patch (550MB) sent out yesterday that added a new game mode that is actually an addon[2]. This addon system looks fairly new and may be taking its toll on the servers. [0] http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ [1] http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=83787&page=24&p=777194&viewfull=1#post777194 http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=83787&page=24&p=777194... [2] http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dota-2-12th-december-patch-content-analysis/1100-353/ http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dota-2-12th-december-patch-... (search for "custom addon")