I just recently purchased Left 4 Dead 2 during Steam's summer sale. I have noticed that the game is 'unavailable' almost nightly (around 10pm-11pm when I try to play it). I did sneak in a quick game earlier this afternoon, without any problem. Does anyone else notice Steam's service to be shoddy in the evenings?
reply to wayne905 by unavailable, do you mean you cant join any servers or the game wont start at all? -- a birth certificate is also proof of death, eventually
reply to wayne905 This error is NOT a 'connection' issue but a 'software' issue. You'll find other games will work fine. Check out this link for details on how to resolve a 'game unavailable' message. That should be able to fix 95% of all issues. --
reply to wayne905 I did run into this error several months ago with MW3. The "Verify Cache" procedure mentioned as step 5 in the link that Savant mentioned corrected it. Apparently something did not synch up correctly between the Steam server and my local files when I shut down the previous evening and the game became "unavailable". -- Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. (Charlie Reese)
I had an issue with it last night as well. I tried to load the game and it froze upon loading then it after a shut down I had to repatch something. It didnt make any sense because it worked fine the day before.
