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    Borderlands - Steam - This game is currently unavailable???

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by HTWingNut, Oct 26, 2009.

  1. HTWingNut

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    Ok, I restarted steam, rebooted my PC, but it still says Borderlands is currently unavailable? What is up with this? I spent half a day downloading the darn thing, and I wanted to play tonight. I hope I don't have to redownload because I'll be quite ticked off (you don't know how many swear words I staved off for this post).... :mad:
     
    HTWingNut, Oct 26, 2009
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    Ripfire Minecraft Architect

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    Mine worked without a hitch, if you restarted steam I don't know what the issue could be :(
     
    Ripfire, Oct 26, 2009
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  3. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    delete the blob file?
     
    tianxia, Oct 26, 2009
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    Weird. Had to backup and reinstalled from the backup, and it worked.
     
    HTWingNut, Oct 26, 2009
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  5. ren3g7ade

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    ...anyone interested in playing an online Borderlands game, PM me and I will give you my Steam/GameSpy tags.
     
    ren3g7ade, Oct 26, 2009
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    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    OK, The first thing in there "restart steam" seemed to work. "Unlocking files" as I am posting this instead of that disturbing "Game unavailable"
     
    hoofhearted, Oct 27, 2009
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  8. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    I had to restart steam to fix it, it common for new games as the first logon gives it persmisson to release, but the next logon starts the decrypting process.

    I got the abillty to host now, just got done hosting a game. It is more fun with others but the loot and xp were not much better like I expected and I only had 1 person near my level join, everybody else was lowbies.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 27, 2009
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    manwithmustache Notebook Evangelist

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    I actually got that problem too, I lit up, then what I did was go into "offline mode", it decrypted and installed there, and worked, then i went back to online mode, and it had to decrypte once again but was faster, and then it works

    host a game later vicious!
     
    manwithmustache, Oct 27, 2009
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