Steam sale overloads servers

Due to high demand from almost 5 million concurrent users, it appears the Steam servers are being hammered in the Steam Sale.

[Vip3r]

Happens every year. Nothing new to report.

[Axe99]

Aye, Steam actually goes down a bit (far more frequently than the PSN or XBL), it gets off surprisingly lightly because of it. Doesn't go down for long, but it doesn't mind hiccupping quite a bit. No biggy (for me at least, I tend to play single-player strategy games on PC), but will be good if it were a dash more reliable.

[Psychotica]

I know, you would think they would be better prepared for it..

[matgrowcott]

Duplicate post: http://n4g.com/news/1308709...

[JunioRS101]

Does that mean the sales were that good? Or the servers are that bad?

[Tundra]

Got dark souls prepare to die edition for 7 bucks :). We had the original game on xbox but this was too good to pass up.

[George Sears]

Got Borderlands 2 and Bioshock Infinite for now. Ridiculous deals.

[LAWSON72]

Borderlands 2 was much cheaper at gmg last week $13.50 for game and season pass and Infinite was same price with 3 free games.

[MidnytRain]

I got BL2 at Best Buy for 11 bucks on their Monday deal.

[Psychotica]

I still haven't found anything on sale that I want and I don't already own..

[eclectified]

It took a few tries, but I got what i wanted. I had been waiting for scribblenauts to be the price of a burger. It's pretty fun. :)