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[Lightningfalcon]

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.

[Teneb]

Summer sale has started... but, at least for me, the store is broken enough that it doesn't open.

[forsaken1111]

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

[nenjin]

[Teneb]

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

Damn, Doom is -40%, which is surprising since it's pretty new. I consider myself pretty damn happy now.

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[Metalax]

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.

[Persus13]

I was wondering that too.

You get trading cards from the discovery queue again though.

[Lightningfalcon]

Huniepop is 69% off, if anyone wants it.

[Levi]

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

[forsaken1111]

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

[Darkmere]

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?

.... and ninja'd.

[Rolan7]

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.

Oh and

Huniepop is 69% off, if anyone wants it.

tee hee

[forsaken1111]

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.

[Sonlirain]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So that's a thing.

[Ozyton]

But the headphones are included right? =p