Next year, keep in mind that you can buy games as gifts and then schedule them to be delivered to the recipient account at some point in the future. So you know, buy ahead of time, like normal gifting…
Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app. Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
Good hunting.
On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.
The Christmas lights I mean.
Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.
Number of page views on a "is it down" page is not necessarily indicative of a problem. Not being able to connect to the service in question is.
Funny that you ignored “indicates,” which is a perfectly valid inference here, and also it’s true.
If you want to be pedant, don’t self-own.