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Ah, that explains why they've been DDOSed for a couple hours now. edit: I'm not implying that Steam is being attacked, here I intend to say that the DDOS is or
by shawn-furyan 13y ago
Ah, that explains why they've been DDOSed for a couple hours now.
edit: I'm not implying that Steam is being attacked, here I intend to say that the DDOS is organically driven by high demand for the content.
- kbar13 13y agoAre you sure they are getting attacked? Is there a status posting somewhere that reflects that assumption? It's more likely that their servers are overloaded from the number of users trying to grab L4D2 along with the other winter sale items. Steam store has been iffy the past couple of days already.
- yareally 13y agoDefinitely being hit hard by legitimate users. It's always bad during steam sales, but things like this put it over capacity.
- bdz 13y agoThe non official Steam status page http://steamstat.us/ http://steamstat.us/ (But even the Dota matchmaking is down right now)
- shawn-furyan 13y agoI didn't say it was an attack. It's a distributed denial of service via demand for the service rather than malicious intent. edit: Perhaps I should have said "organically DDOSed" or something to that effect to better signal that I was using the term in a casual manner somewhat divorced from its malicious origin.