India, April 22 -- Steam appeared to be down for thousands of users on Tuesday, which is usually when the scheduled server maintenance takes place. As per Downdetector nearly 20,000 users complained about facing issues.

According to Downdetector most people faced issues with server connections while some had login and game launch issues. Normally, Tuesday is when Steam's scheduled server maintenance takes place so some downtime is expected.

However, Tuesday's incident appeared to be something different.

The Steam server maintenance is normally between 1:00pm and 3:00pm Pacific Time (PT) and lasts for 10-60 minutes. However, the current time is 3:20pm PT, which means the outage is occurring outside of scheduled maintenance time.

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