Dozens of games, DLC packs and other items were temporarily removed from the Steam store on Tuesday before being restored two hours later. As first detected by Twitter users like Gabe Follower and subsequently reported by VGC, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the biggest name to be affected, sparking speculation on social media.
However, if you scroll down, you will see a wave of content being removed on March 9, starting with Paws and Claws: Pet Vet and ending with the movie American Gods. The individual shows how his description, screenshots and trailers were removed from the window, only to be restored two hours later.
CS: GO is not just the only app that has disappeared from the Steam Store. Something went wrong at the end of the Valve there, when they disappeared, some appids appeared on an in-store API (0, 160, 202) that shouldn’t have. List of affected applications: https://t.co/4nDGgWEtnH
At the moment, it is not clear why these specific items were affected by this apparent bug. Steam Database founder Pavel Djundik said on Twitter that this could be related to region blocks for certain titles, as most items had blocks based on geographic region. That said, this is basically just speculation at this point, and there is a chance that we will never know why it happened. Given that CS: GO is one of the most popular games on Steam, however, it is certainly a notable failure. We have contacted Valve for comment and will update this story if we receive a response.