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« Reply #13125 on: June 23, 2016, 01:18:24 am »

Everything Valve does is usually based off of some time that equates to 1 PM at my location. By that measure we've got around 12.5 hours to go, no?
Thats when the sales have always started, so I give it a good 95% chance that that's the case.
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« Reply #13126 on: June 23, 2016, 12:27:12 pm »

Summer sale has started... but, at least for me, the store is broken enough that it doesn't open.
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« Reply #13127 on: June 23, 2016, 12:27:55 pm »

Summer sale has started... but, at least for me, the store is broken enough that it doesn't open.
Keep trying, it will come up
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« Reply #13128 on: June 23, 2016, 12:32:45 pm »

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« Reply #13129 on: June 23, 2016, 12:33:39 pm »

Summer sale has started... but, at least for me, the store is broken enough that it doesn't open.
Keep trying, it will come up
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« Reply #13130 on: June 23, 2016, 12:38:16 pm »

Am I not seeing it or is there no event/gimmick as part of this years summer sale?

The traditional bricking of the Store servers has happened though.
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« Reply #13131 on: June 23, 2016, 12:40:23 pm »

I was wondering that too.

You get trading cards from the discovery queue again though.
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« Reply #13132 on: June 23, 2016, 12:42:10 pm »

Huniepop is 69% off, if anyone wants it.
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« Reply #13133 on: June 23, 2016, 01:30:43 pm »

Why doesn't Valve ever upgrade their servers for these things?  Surely they got the money.
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« Reply #13134 on: June 23, 2016, 01:32:06 pm »

Why doesn't Valve ever upgrade their servers for these things?  Surely they got the money.
Doesn't make financial sense to pay a ton of money to avoid a problem that really only affects them the first few hours of a sale
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« Reply #13135 on: June 23, 2016, 01:33:14 pm »

Why doesn't Valve ever upgrade their servers for these things?  Surely they got the money.

It settles down after a few hours. Why shell out at minimum 5 digits for hardware upgrades when the problem occurs maybe 36 hours out of a year?

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« Reply #13136 on: June 23, 2016, 01:37:18 pm »

It's possible to rent serverspace with something like Amazon AWS, but I'm sure there are serious scale problems keeping that from being an easy solution for Steam.  I don't know a lot about how it works.

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« Reply #13137 on: June 23, 2016, 01:38:57 pm »

Same argument as 'why doesn't blizzard upgrade their servers to avoid login problems after an expansion comes out' or 'why do all online games have problems on release day'. It's prohibitively expensive to buy hardware enough to handle every edge case or temporary spike.

It would be like asking a person "Why not buy 2 extra cars for when your inlaws come over for their annual visit?" it's a huge expense for an infrequent problem.

It's possible to rent serverspace with something like Amazon AWS, but I'm sure there are serious scale problems keeping that from being an easy solution for Steam.  I don't know a lot about how it works.
It's possible but not a good idea. There would be scaling and latency problems. Steam likely has a very fine tuned hardware backend and trying to temporarily rope in some random amalgamation of cloud hardware to their clusters or whatever architecture is probably not worth the effort.
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« Reply #13138 on: June 23, 2016, 01:42:07 pm »

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« Reply #13139 on: June 23, 2016, 01:43:11 pm »

But the headphones are included right? =p
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