Sorry, didn't think a poll was necessary. Only oppinions.
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You ALWAYS include a poll. One of those unspoken rules.
That doesn't count as being spoken
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Yes. Perhaps an effort without instant profit (money).
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Don't know about you, but until now (2h from steam summer sale) i still can't access the steam shop, it's completely bugged [Sorry. The Steam Store is experiencing some heavy load right now. Please try again later. Error 503 Service Unavailable. XID: 1538854379]. How cool is that?!
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I've been trying to put something into my shopping cart for the last two hours... -.-
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I've been browsing the store over the past hour or so. I'm now stuck after the payment where it says "working." Although my game count has already updated.
EDIT: And it's done.
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They obviously don't have enough money to fix it! You need to buy more games for them to fix it!
People these's days can't understand how poor companies can't always upgrade their software...
Oh Wait, they have billions of dollars in their bank accounts...
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this is such bullshit. Companies can't effectively temporarily increase capacity, and to do so permanently is not cost effective. Very few businesses base capacity on peak traffic of a once or twice a year sale.
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"Companies can't effectively temporarily increase capacity"
Yes, yes, they can. It's fairly common in businessness to hire server-capacity for peaks since as you say having own servers for just those is insane.
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they can hire server capacity on a temporary basis, but it can be difficult to predict what those peaks are going to be.
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That's funny, I can predict them perfectly, twice a year.
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Like the season sales like every fucking year in the past half decade? They know about it. They just don't really care. People will eventualyl stop flocking, the load will be tolerable with less outages, and all those of the cheaper regions or those who don't know that Steam has stopped being the cheapest platform will still earn them a lot of money.
So, in a sense, from their point of view it is not broken as it happens every half year yet they don't see any loss of money.
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Well here's the thing, it's not like they're putting their money anywhere important toward the consumer. This happens every single year, they know it's a problem it usually doesn't last two hours, they've known that this is the day and yet here we are again, they always get caught with their pants down.
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as you said, it usually doesn't last two hours. Assuming they're not retarded, it's a business decision that figures the loss of sales in those two hours is less than the cost of extra capacity.
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Why would they pay for extra servers when this is something that only happens for a few hours, twice a year? We're the ones that are practically DDoSing them. Go do something else and come back later when traffic will be lower. Even if there were flash sales you'd still have 12 hours for them. Nothing that can't wait.
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There are server by hours. Is called Load Balancing and almost every big website has something like this. Look Amazon AWS.
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Considering their annoying BS (authenticator) drains all the money and joy from me using Steam... yup, totally.
Maybe I would go back to card trading even rather than not spending any money on Valve (all I will spend now is my wallet, if that's finished, it's finished).
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Instead of creating absurd mobile protection systems (that is ineffective and time consuming), better if they optimized steam so that on summer sales it wasn't constantly down and bugged. What do you think?
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