{"id":7970,"date":"2010-10-11T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"steam-down-for-maintenance-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7970-steam-down-for-maintenance-this-afternoon","title":{"rendered":"Steam down for maintenance this afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.steampowered.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=784745&amp;page=17\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that Steam will be down this afternoon, with planned maintenance taking place between 4AM PST until around 8AM PST.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Steam should have gone down at 1PM local time, as Valve confirmed that downtime commenced as planned. It should remain down until about 5PM.<\/p>\n<p>During the downtime it will be impossible to play any games on Steam, although you will be able to play games in single player mode. &ldquo;The Steam Store, Steam Community, matchmaking, and leader boards will be down for the duration of this event,&rdquo; said Valve&rsquo;s MikeBlaszczak.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the downtime should end just in time for the commencement of most gamers&rsquo; evening gaming sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8546-Steam-down-this-afternoon\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Steam downtime\">Steam downtime<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad-face engaged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}