Valve’s Steam platform appears to be having a partial interruption. Users are presently having trouble reaching the Shop and Neighborhood pages.
It’s unclear if the outage is impacting customers attempting to play video games. Steam Charts, another independent site that tracks present gamer counts, shows that some games are seeing their populations dip while others are spiking.
The blackout shows up just days after completion of Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale, which concluded on Jan.27 The problem is especially troublesome for video games introducing today. One prominent launch is Days of War, a World War II-themed multiplayer shooter which is set up to go live at 1: 00 p.m. EST. The video game has remained in the Early Gain access to program given that 2017.
At the time of this composing it appears the Steam web API has actually come back online. The entire Community website is still offline and the shop itself is returning a 503 mistake.