There are a number of websites to check server statuses of popular games like CSGO or DOTA 2, and even the server status of Steam itself. In case you’re finding yourself unable to launch CSGO or join a game, you can check for yourself if CSGO servers are down. This is very unlikely to happen but has happened on more than one occasion in the past. However, in case of an update, the servers can be up quite quickly.Īnother reason behind server outages may be a technical fault in Valve’s servers. When a new update is shipped to the game, the servers can go down for a short while. The first and common cause of server outages is a new update. Steam and Valve are registered trademarks of Valve Corporation.On August 9th, CSGO players across the Globe reported outages of the game servers. This site is not affiliated with, or endorsed by Valve Corporation in any way. If you would like to support the site you can use these links to our domain registrar Hover or our web host Digital Ocean If you have a suggestion for the 'Things to check out.' section please send an e-mail to How can I support this site?

No, I don't display ads on this site, but I will link to games for free if I like them and they don't require Steam. Additionally Valve is located in the Pacific timezone and it sensible to do all routine maintenance during business hours so they can have their employees able to respond quickly if something goes wrong. Steam is a worldwide service and if you look at Steam’s player statistics page you’ll see that peak time for the service is during the European evening, and at 16:00 Pacific time the user numbers are significantly lower. Why is maintenance scheduled during US evenings?.

It doesn't mean there is currently routine maintenance being performed. This is a message that the Steam client gives whenever it can connect to the internet but can't connect to Steam's servers.

What if I get the message 'The Steam servers are currently down for routine maintenance.' but it isn't Tuesday?.

If it is a Tuesday at around 16:00 Pacific time then it is probably scheduled maintenance, otherwise I don't know.

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