The IMC servers are up, they probably need to authenticate with steam in some way and only authenticate on startup or something.
So because they authenticated before the steam servers were shut down they’re currently not connected to the steam servers and need to be restarted. Even though the steam servers have been restarted the IMC servers aren’t properly connected to them.
i agree.
“There was an error communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later.”
can’t connect either
Yeah, I’m in game atm, but seems a lot of players can’t log in.
I’m not so familiar with how Steam works, but I guess that explains it. In their community page Steam is displaying about 3k+ players still in-game so I presume only those who have logged off can’t go back in. Thanks!
Same here, Silute, can’t log in.
I wanted to enter the character selection and it didn’t work, so I wanted to restart the client. Now I’m locked out! T_T The servers are up and running but everything related to login and character selection doesn’t work. 
Steam may be back up again, but as of the moment, not all its services are, such as the Steam Web API. Once steam has been fully rebooted then we will be able to play the game.
so u saying, imc’s potato server cant connect to steam server ?
same problem here. hello imc
Yeah it’s defiantly a steam issue. Several people I know are in game without any issues. They haven’t logged out since this has been going on, which explains why they are still in game without problems.
got crash right in the middle of a world boss fight. can’t re-log in T.T why … why… Varena server here
Fun stuff.
I bet every game forum everywhere has exploded with threads like this.
#thedaysteamswitchedoff
i still can play other games though. only TOS can’t.
It’s working again now it seems.
We can all disperse again, crisis is over~
all servers are up go GRIND =)
it’s up. i entered the game. no mo crying guys 
same problem in Varena too ,
I can’t login 20 min right now
what happen? server down?
Yes b/c ToS is the only game on steam with no support of any kind, if something breaks it takes steve the janitor/gardener/coder/programmer/leaddeveloper/ceo atleast 2hours to flip a switch.
We’re in.
20 characters, have YOU tried the 
button?!
