Is Steam Down After Thousands Report Outage Friday?
is steam down: Downdetector showed more than 11, 000 reports of outages as of 1 p. m. Friday, leaving many players unable to access online matchmaking and other networked features during peak hours.
Is Steam Down — what players experienced
Downdetector’s initial tally—more than 11, 000 reports as of 1 p. m. Friday—captured a surge of complaints centered on server connections, login problems and game-launch failures, leaving users asking plainly whether is steam down for them on that date. The breakdown of user issues showed 43% of reports involved server connections, 26% cited login issues and 17% described problems launching games, and a Downdetector heat map flagged outages in North and South Texas near Dallas and Houston.
Cloudflare and Akamai investigating connectivity issues
An unofficial Steam server status site said Cloudflare and Akamai were investigating connectivity issues, and Cloudflare posted an update saying, "Cloudflare is continuing to restore service to customers. Cloudflare has also identified a way for impacted customers to self-resolve impact by readvertising prefixes the Cloudflare dashboard. " Steam had not issued a statement about its service status or the cause of the outages as of 1: 17 p. m. Friday.
Timeline: spike at 2: 00 p. m., tapering by 4: 00 p. m.
Platform monitoring showed a sharp drop in online users around 2: 00 p. m. ET on Friday, with Downdetector recording a spike in reports at that time and a steep drop-off about 15 minutes later. Steam Status registered a surge of interest—more than 370, 000 visits in the past hour—flagging the event as an outage, and by roughly 4: 00 p. m. ET outage reports had tapered off almost completely. During the disruption some players were still able to log in and launch single-player games, while online matchmaking and multiplayer sessions remained spotty for others.
Cloudflare’s update that customers can self-resolve by readvertising prefixes the Cloudflare dashboard is the clearest next step publicly available; Steam had not posted its own status statement as of 1: 17 p. m. Feb. 20, and the recovery continued into the late afternoon.
