Comment on When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps

Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Steam has some of the most consistent and high quality servers around. It’s quite rare to see them slow down or go down, at least in my experience.

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t think of a time steam was down (for me personally, I know outages happen) that wasn’t planned and announced well ahead of time

    And I’ve got a lot of hours on steam

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    • Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What, you just play “Steam”? :)

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      • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s got a very satisfying game loop:

        • open library
        • browse my 800+ games
        • realise this is how women feel when they look at their packed closets and say "i have nothing to wear"
        • close steam
        • wait a bit
        • open steam
        • repeat

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  • ollie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    so high quality that they go down for maintenance every Tuesday…

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    • kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That seems pretty normal if you want your servers to stay high quality?

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      • ollie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        normal? not at all. Imagine if youtube went down every week, and they have way more overhead than steam

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And at best only during specific sales like the Steam deck their servers became unresponsive for a bit.

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• SoaringDE@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder how much they paid for that launch bandwith.

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  • Contend6248@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Steam has a 30% cut, so, that pays

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• SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they use Akamai as a CDN.

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• Silviecat44@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Crys in low internet speed

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