The issue has been resolved! We are all free of the shackles of this evil error!

Everyone rejoice, we can now play our games once more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

I urge a lot of people to post support tickets and other things to Steam. These tickets should include information not only about our problem connecting, but also information about our bans. I do believe that a lot of us may have been steam banned for various unjust purposes, I do not think that's fair in and of itself.

We need people to join this group and spread awarness of this problem. If you know someone at Valve, message them, if you have friends that do, message them. If you are banned and such, try to get your friends who are free to join the group so we can all figure this out together, there's no reason to isolate ourselves, we can get the entire steam community involved to help us.