As of right now, there is no official release of news from Valve regarding a current Steam outage. While there was a service disruption impacting Steam today, official communication from Valve is often limited.
Unofficial tracking sites like Downdetector reported a spike in user issues as of this morning, with thousands of users experiencing server connection problems.
Reports from Cybernews suggest that the issue may have been part of a larger internet disruption affecting multiple major platforms, potentially due to a DDoS attack.
The issues appeared to affect online matchmaking and server connections for many games.
Valve does not typically issue formal press information for most service interruptions, and their communication is usually limited to resolving the issue and updating support pages. The company’s support website notes that unscheduled downtime can occur due to hardware or network failures and that they work to resolve these issues promptly.
Services have already begun to return to normal, but not completely. This outage does not appear to be routine Tuesday maintenance.
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