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Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation offering digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer gaming and social networking services. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. Available on Window, Mac OS and Playstation.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Steam Outage Chart 03/02/2026 00:10

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Steam users through our website.

  1. Sign in (54%)

    Sign in (54%)

  2. Online Play (23%)

    Online Play (23%)

  3. Glitches (17%)

    Glitches (17%)

  4. Game Crash (3%)

    Game Crash (3%)

  5. Matchmaking (2%)

    Matchmaking (2%)

  6. Hacking / Cheating (%)

    Hacking / Cheating (%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Steam outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
United StatesEast Wenatchee Sign in
FranceRodez Online Play
FinlandHelsinki Sign in
United StatesBremerton Game Crash
SwitzerlandVevey Sign in
United KingdomRotherham Sign in
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Steam Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Wulf0123 Bradley Richards (@Wulf0123) reported

    @Steam Anyway you can use your logs to fix queue placement for all of us who just tried to pay and now got locked out for a lot of purchases

  • Lv100troll Trollolol (@Lv100troll) reported

    @Steam Everyone who keeps getting error, dont stop smashing that ****** button no matter what. Mine just went through after 42 ****** minutes!

  • rickyberwick Ricky Berwick (@rickyberwick) reported

    @Riverter @Steam It's a glitch

  • Wulf0123 Bradley Richards (@Wulf0123) reported

    @RottyNTeaks @Steam Anyway you can use your logs to fix queue placement for all of us who just tried to pay and now got locked out for a lot of purchases

  • Xonticus Nick Volant (@Xonticus) reported

    @DarkholderMedia @Steam Had the exact same issue, my account is 17 years old.

  • TheAllenWayne Alex Greenway (@TheAllenWayne) reported

    @epic___username @Steam I got the exact same error message you did but it finally let mine go through. Keep hitting that continue button!

  • HackyScientress Jenny 🏳️‍⚧️ | @hackyscientress@chaos.social (@HackyScientress) reported

    @derchris @Steam Oh you have problems too. My account is locked out because they wrote their website so poorly that failed transaction count into the maximum # of orders per hour.

  • GermaineMcboun3 Germaine Mcbounds (@GermaineMcboun3) reported

    @Steam So if I’m new to steam I have to wait 48 hrs in order to purchase one? And I went to purchase one and it crash

  • Krakn3dfx Denver Kraken (@Krakn3dfx) reported

    @Steam How long is "a while" anyway? If it's in my cart, am I good? Can you respond to people having issues? Of course you can't, why am I even asking.

  • wezlypipz tyler aronne (@wezlypipz) reported

    @Steam For anyone experiencing the error for "too many attempts to purchase" garbage that Valve/Steam should have turned off before this, it's 30 mins, it blocks you for 30 mins and then you can get through. Thanks for nothing!

  • aSwineofCulture Cedric Saebrook 🐽『a Swine of Culture』(ENVtuber) (@aSwineofCulture) reported

    I am smartly avoiding all the @steam Deck pre-order issues by simply not being able to afford one

  • AshFennix Ashley 💢 (@AshFennix) reported

    @Steam i try it, too many attempts error friend does it as a meme, works first shot well, he didn't even want it. welp, going to just give him money for it.

  • Techheaux Heaux for Tech (@Techheaux) reported

    Did anyone get the steam deck? Steam went kept bouncing me around. I can wait till Sunday but it kept having a error and making me frustrated. @Steam @Steam_Support help.

  • DarkLightMemory DLM (@DarkLightMemory) reported

    @Steam I had the SAME "too many attempts" too. Just sit and wait about 20 minutes (I know it's hard) and then try again. I got the other error instead, but it stopped doing the "attempts" error. I waited one minute between each try and it did eventually go through. Good Luck!!!

  • Hernanscor He-rnan (@Hernanscor) reported

    @Steam Can u guys fix it?

  • OwForBreakfast OwForBreakfast (@OwForBreakfast) reported

    @Steam Ah yes. The classic locking people out of their reservation with zero explanation or a quick fix. Guess we get to wait an indeterminate amount of time and potentially get ours months later now. Thanks Volvo.

  • jstrickland328 Joe Strickland (@jstrickland328) reported

    @evans_nj @Lbabinz @Steam It was just a glitch. I was able to reserve one after many retries!

  • Anonymousonebe2 Anonymousonebestway (@Anonymousonebe2) reported

    @Steam are you ******* kidding me right now!?!?!? Got the “attempting to make too many purchases” bullshit and now the reservation button is grayed out with order availability in Q1!? It’s in my cart and I can’t even pay for it! I’m beyond frustrated! Fix this for us!

  • ikaruskid Ben Collet (@ikaruskid) reported

    @Protostar @Steam I had the same problem for the last 42m. Submitted a support request. Saw that my account had been unlocked in a separate email from my ticket. Anyway, now it works. Try again!

  • s_laplante6791 Sean LaPlante (@s_laplante6791) reported

    @JustinRoiland @Steam Seemed after 30 minutes (almost on the dot) I was able to get back to the error message before that one haha

  • Jdetko22 Joe Detko (@Jdetko22) reported

    @Steam please fix your pre orders so I can get my steam deck

  • Goufunaki Derek (@Goufunaki) reported

    @AustinCreedWins @Steam I guess I was lucky to grab one. I’m looking in search and all I see is people having the same issue your having. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.

  • moises_pr123 Moisés Cardona (@moises_pr123) reported

    @steam @Steam_Support Please take care of the "It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in the last few hours" error. Please. #SteamDeck

  • adamcpenny Adam Penny (@adamcpenny) reported

    @CyedonNL @Steam I was having the same issue. After about 20 minutes I tried it again and it just worked for me.

  • Lmgkllrpro007 Bryan walker (@Lmgkllrpro007) reported

    @Steam Really?? Multiple errors when trying to pay and then I've tried top many times and I can't reserve at all? Shame on you steam!!!

  • whilom23 🏳️‍⚧️whilom🌹🐝 (@whilom23) reported

    @Steam got mine to go thru just a minute ago after like 30 minutes and 10 error messages, by the 5th one or so i decided to let it sit for a bit between attempts to see if that let servers unclog. and hey, while this is a weird+clunky system, at least its helping prevent scalpers?

  • HikariKenzaki Hikari Kenzaki (@HikariKenzaki) reported

    I expected @Steam to have some issues with selling the #SteamDeck, but this is ridiculous. This is not a problem like GPUs or Consoles or other hardware sold across many stores. This is one device, per account, through a single storefront. And you lock people out

  • dmusicstud Brandon Danner (@dmusicstud) reported

    @Steam Yeah, I have a few questions. Like, how were you this underprepared for your process? It's simply terrible, and a bad look for your company. Fix this

  • jnlgame J&L Game | 11am to 8pm Daily 212-233-3399 (@jnlgame) reported

    @Romudeth @Steam @valvesoftware I'm older than the founders of Valve. I opened my damned account 2 months after they launched the damned service!

  • stuartthompson Stu (@stuartthompson) reported

    @gameduchess @Steam @Steam_Support I'm having the same problem. Was there bang on 10AM, experienced a bunch of site errors and now I can't make any purchases because of this lockout.