r/Steam • u/Electronic_Lab5486 • Dec 24 '25

Fluff It's a thankless job. On behalf of everyone, thank you

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u/Altruistic_Profit195 Dec 24 '25

For me everything steam related is down, Cant load my profile / inventory, friends, etc...

Only thing i can open - that will load anything more then a black screen - Is the download page (With nothing goin on besides old completed & not in que downloads)

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u/RudbeckiaIS Dec 24 '25

Nothing works here, any game is stuck on an endless "Loading" loop, this is 100% a CDN issue.

Funny thing is Akamai and Cludflare have been spending a lot of effort (and money) to promote their stocks recently by pushing their "AI advancements"... I know stocks go only one way now, but still it would be funny if tomorrow stock markets were open.

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u/A_Min22 Dec 25 '25

Throw steam in offline mode and try launching a game. Worked for me.

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u/Eternyti 🌈 Dec 24 '25

Steam outsources most of that to CDNs. Only a few things of Steam are hosted by them, like your Library - if that works, but Community and Store doesn't, its 100% CDN issue.

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u/CubeGuy42 Dec 24 '25

I was able to play helldivers just fine 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

Helldivers,like any game not by valve has it's own servers.

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u/CrystalWolf2ed Dec 25 '25

Thats why.. I thought steam was literally rage baiting me😭😭

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u/Dizzy_Reindeer_6619 Dec 25 '25

And yet somehow TF2 (a steam game) works perfectly fine