My bad. I was having a crap day, totally admit it.

Continue Gog'ers.

Nope, I've only ever had a few problems during huge sales.
Perhaps a lot of people are downloading W3.

nah, i prefer you to evidence your claims, I really cant be bothered. The onus of evidence is on the claimant.

Remember, Defenders quest dev said GoG was 2nd in sales of their game so they much be the #2 distributor, am I right?

I'll ask the question I always ask when someone spouts that off. How can you be the #2 digital game distributor when you only sell a third of all games that everyone else carries?

Nobody answers that question btw.

It seems like a daily thing now where someone brings up something about Steam (whether it simply be a question or something else) and some forum members need to go on some tirade about Valve/Steam. If you don't like Steam or are not interested in it, why do you go into these threads with Steam in the title.

Yeah, that's the statistic that get quoted most.... and if I remember correctly DQ was sold on gOg for almost 2-3 months before it came out on Steam.

There is as far as I know no sale figures that do prove exactly the ranking of the DD stores, only a couple of indies which have discussed sales figures for their individual games. I was hoping Johnathanamz actually had some hard facts, but I guess not.

a quick google search later this is all i could find
no hard facts
just kotaku ( dont laugh )
gamasutra
and eurogamer ( there a reputed site so there wont be any sneering)
considering gog and origin as steams closest competitors

http://tmi.kotaku.com/thank-goodness-theres-finally-a-real-threat-to-steam-1586714107
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-30-steam-vs-origin-is-competition-good-for-gamers-article
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregoryLove/20131118/205056/Steams_Marketplace__A_Humble_Competitor.php

gamasutra mentions humble but humble is just a reseller really

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gog-launches-a-drm-free-steam-competitor-gog-galaxy/1100-6420137/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/27/gog-drm-free-movies/

this is just a 5 min search though

oo another Steam is bad discussion. How enlightening!

On the original topic, my Steam is working fine.

mine has worked fine today as well

I think you need another 5 min....

the problem is that neither of those articles mentions gOg's market share (the closest I could find was a mention that Steams estimated market share is 70%), nor can I at a glance see anywhere it mentioned that gOg is the second largest DD store. SO unless I missed it (I did only skim read) non of these articles actually back up Johnathanamz's claims.

results are ...inconclusive and vauge

wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
polygon http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/21/5913763/gog-com-back-catalog-new-releases
mcv http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/breaking-the-steam-monopoly/0123983

none of these mention any concrete numbers they just see gog as the monopoly breaker

but the same could be said arguably for origin

indeed

Well, at least it let me play TeamFortress 2 an hour ago. I had to stop playing though as I got pissed off to my teammates who wouldn't help me at all with that enemy demoman and two spies who kept attacking me and my sentry gun together. I felt like I was defending alone the whole base, others were just fooling around.

I can't blame Steam for that though.

see above. Please help me, I must be very thick. I can not find anywhere anything that substantiate your claims. I know it is probably my fault for not doing it correctly, so some aid would be welcome.

I think Steam released an update recently that messed up some stuff, eg, all Reviews were gone and the rating (like Positive/Negative on a store page) was gone).