Implement warning system for maintenance 1 hour before it begins.

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Tamaster 13 hours ago

Today I had yet another online session ruined by the steam maintenance. FInal boss of a game. Disconnected. Have to redo the whole thing tomorrow.

The client should display a warning of some kind to the players "attention, steam maintenance will begin in 1 hour" so they know in advance. This is something commonly seen in MMO games servers in the global chat, for instance.

Normal people can't remember this daily with all the stuff they have going on. Also, players might be from different timezones, since Steam does this maintenance using USA low user population timezones because USA are privileged. Of course, being it an american company makes sense.

Simply display a warning with sound like a chat message: "Maintenance in 1 hour, you might get disconnected from your game". I dont think thats hard to program.

Also: no other client (uplay, epic, EA whatever) does this. Only steam. Why? Don't know. Not a network engineer. But if other platforms can avoid it, Valve can also avoid it, since they have billions of dollars and the best tech guys in the world working for them. Probably, they don't want to.

But anyway these suggestion in these forums are almost never implemented. So probably just wasting my time. Valve does what they want, their platform their choice.

I'll simply do the only possible fix: not play online games on Tuesday anymore.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 12 hours ago

3PM Pacific Time every Tuesday.

rawWwRrr 12 hours ago

Originally posted by Tamaster:
Valve does what they want, their platform their choice.

Finally, someone with common sense.

Originally posted by Tamaster:
Also, players might be from different timezones, since Steam does this maintenance using USA low user population timezones because USA are privileged. Of course, being it an american company makes sense.

There are players online everywhere and all times of the day. They must pick a time that impacts the least amount of players, but is also during Valve's workday to take as much advantage of the downtime as possible. If they try something that severely breaks Steam, there are enough Valve employees around to bring it back to life. That all coincides on Tuesday afternoon in Valve HQ. So, there's not so much USA privilege as much as it's the most opportunistic time for Valve to perform maintenance. A lot of users in the US aren't happy, either, when they get kicked from a game.

Originally posted by Tamaster:
Simply display a warning with sound like a chat message: "Maintenance in 1 hour, you might get disconnected from your game". I dont think thats hard to program.

It's been suggested quite a bit over the years. And really, it's not a tall ask, in my opinion. However, it only takes a few Tuesdays before one learns to expect the downtime when their specific time on Tuesday rolls around.

Originally posted by Tamaster:
I'll simply do the only possible fix: not play online games on Tuesday anymore.

You can still play online games on Tuesday. Just be ready for the downtime and hope it doesn't last a long time.

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Hikari Light 10 hours ago

It has happened at the SAME TIME on the SAME DAY for over 20 years.

They don't need to give a warning because literally the smallest bit of research will tell you when to expect it.

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