Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Dec 19, 2011, 13:47:
Their servers must be getting pounded. I'm getting errors and blank screens in the Steam app. Refreshing will sometimes fix it. Sometimes I just get another mostly blank screen.
That happens with EVERY big steam sale. It also happens with big game releases. Its happened frequently enough that valve has all sorts of data on the servers they need to handle the load and the rate of increase every year... but don't bother to buy. You'd think if they did nothing else with servers, they'd get servers enough to handle people wanting to give them money.
In fact, if you look at the steam stats on their content servers they are almost never at 100% which means its in the load balancing system somewhere (if the load balancing servers can't properly handle and distribute the load to fill the content to 100%, then they are wasting money on the content server capacity); and/or perhaps the store system servers which is what they need to get the money, which should be the top priority. Valve has oodles of money, there's really no excuse they haven't fixed this yet.
This comment was edited on Dec 19, 2011, 19:26.