Twas the night before Christmas and Steam is still having serious problems

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    It's the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down.

    It's unclear what's going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we're guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The unofficial Steam Status website is reporting websocket errors, and says the entire Steam store, community, and web API are offline. SteamStat page views are also jumping up, which is a pretty reliable indicator that something's gone wrong.

    That's not good. (Image credit: Unofficial Steam Status)

    Downdetector is also indicating some serious issues with Steam, ongoing since a little after 1 pm ET.

    P0nchik95 on the Steam subreddit has a theory—I don't know how likely it is to be accurate (not very, I suspect) but it's not terrible advice anyway:

    Comment from r/Steam

    GOG, naturally, did what it does, with a not-too-subtle reminder that its games work perfectly well regardless of the state of its servers.

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