14 DAY TRIAL // If you have a Steam account and you tried to log on to it recently, you may have experienced "minor" troubles. And when I say "minor" troubles I mean impossibility of logging on.
Looks like a blizzard (not that Blizzard, the company responsible for World of Warcraft) has taken down Steam servers in the Seattle area. Apparently, a storm from the Pacific Northwest has managed to take out the power in the Bellevue/Seattle area.
On top of this, Steam forums were also down so you had nowhere to complain and, by the looks of it, restoring power to Steam servers will take some time. A message on Steam severs, which was snatched by shacknews -even tough the forums loaded as slow as a turtle, reads the following:
"There is currently a wide spread power outage in Bellevue/Seattle impacting Steam Server availability. Unfortunately ETA for when the power will be restored is unknown as the power company will only work on restoring it once the storm has eased and the high winds have died down. Any issues you are experiencing with connecting to Steam are only temporary, as this isn't an end-user issue."
So I guess you won't be downloading any games today. Bummer! You'll have to go out! You'll even have to talk to real people! Maybe this power outage might turn out to be a good thing. Yes, Valve will lose some serious money, but at least Steam freaks will spend some time away from their computers. Or maybe they will prefer to do some Christmas shopping...online of course?