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by 0cf8612b2e1e 1071 days ago
Anecdotally, I can report that Steam has significantly less than 99.999% uptime. Friends have reported similar for Xbox and PlayStation services.

At least in the case of Steam, they print money and can still struggle to keep the lights running.
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allarm 1071 days ago
> less than 99.999% uptime

And that's completely fine. Nobody will die if gaming service has donwntime slightly (or considerably) longer than 5 minutes/year.

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0cf8612b2e1e 1071 days ago
Totally agree. Just as a point of reference that a professional service with significantly stronger uptime targets fails to meet these unrealistic expectations. For an open source game with volunteer resources, it is not reasonable to expect anything more.

Edit: I would go so far as to say they could even have a weekly “patch Wednesday” where the expectation is set that there would be an hour of downtime.

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