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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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I absolutely contributed to that and bought it day one.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And here's me, getting it on GOG where it's DRM free.

This game is gonna be on one of my USB sticks for yeeeeears.

[–] Voyajer@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Time to buy a 256GB stick for it lol

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

At what point does it becomes cheaper to ship it to the buyer on a thumb drive?

[–] shortgiraffe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Some backup services charge less for shipping a hard drive then bandwidth, last I looked it was around 8tb to be cheaper (for the user) then restoring over the internet. So I'd guess it's around that mark, but I'm obviously not an expert.

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[–] wil@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

So that's why my download took 15 hours.

[–] Haha@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very much worth it. IMO Larian managed to outdone Original Sin 2 in regards of the RP aspect. As for the mechanics, I still prefer the Pathfinder CRPG games because it's much more expansive system and one of the best TTRPG system implementation in a video game.

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[–] Huschke@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you are into old-school story-driven turn-based RPGs you will thoroughly enjoy yourself. If you want something fast paced this game is not for you.

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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I even had the download cancel midway through. I honestly can't remember personally experiencing a game release that brought their servers to its knees. They should've really done at least a day of preload time though, that would've saved a lot of trouble.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I did my part!

[–] Willer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2.25 Terabytes per second for regular use? Thats actually not that bad considering its the entirety of steam. I kind of want to see those numbers for youtube.

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[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why couldn't it be preloaded?

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago

Using torrents would be relevant

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