On the evening of Tuesday, June 9, users across Russia experienced widespread problems with the Steam gaming service. According to Downdetector, complaints peaked around midnight.
Users reported inability to connect to servers, licensing issues, and not connecting to the server. According to service statistics, during the past 24 hours, 80 percent of complaints related to a general failure of the platform, 16 percent to a failure of the mobile application, and three percent to problems in your personal account.
According to the data the siteMost reports of problems come from St. Petersburg (seven percent of the total number of complaints, taking into account the size of the population), the Moscow region (five percent) and Moscow (five percent). Problems were also recorded in the Lipetsk (three percent) and Voronezh (two percent) regions. Most often, crashes were reported by users of Windows devices (81.2 percent), as well as Android (10.5 percent) and iOS (7.8 percent).
On April 8, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Anton Gorelkin, said that there were no reasons to block the Steam gaming platform in Russia. Fears about this are not necessary, because the service shows its readiness to conduct a constructive dialogue with the authorities.