From Steam’s self-published stats.

Baldur’s Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam’s bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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51Y

What, you just play “Steam”? :)

MolochAlter
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251Y

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
SkaveRat
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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

MolochAlter
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21Y

IIRC there is a website that does this with your library if you log in with steam. It just picks a random one from your library, and you may even be able to set filters or pick a specific collection.

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