Short Steam Maintenance Coming on Thursday, Sending Matchmaking Offline

Many aspect of digital distribution platform Steam will be unavailable for "three hours at most" on Thursday due to planned software maintenance, Valve has announced . Features including "Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases" will be offline during the maintenance, which will begin at 6:00pm PST and is expected to last up to three hours. Though it is safer to face zombie hordes with bots than with Nick and Faylor. Valve explains "games that do not rely on Steam matchmaking services should remain playabl...