India, Dec. 16 -- Steam appeared to run into problems on December 15 as thousands of users complained about facing issues. At the time of writing, Downdetector showed over 2,200 people were facing problems.

According to the site, most people had troubles with server connection. Downdetector noted that users were facing problems since 7:59 PM EST.

Many appeared to see the E502 L3 error message. Steam is yet to comment on the outage.

Some of the quick ways to solve the E502 L3 issue are checking the Steam status, restarting the PC or router, clearing Steam cache, allowing Steam through Windows Firewall, changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8, or ensuring a stable internet connection. If none of these work, try reinstalling Steam or running as admin...