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

• tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What, you just play “Steam”? :)

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    • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I always wanted to start a let’s play channel where a just play a random game from my libraryb every time. I have so many I never even touched

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• ollie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • ollie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You mean if Youtube had regularly scheduled maintenance every week?

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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