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.

  • @[email protected]English
    34•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.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•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

        • MolochAlterEnglish
          25•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
          • SkaveRatEnglish
            5•1 year 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

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

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