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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[–] wil@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

So that's why my download took 15 hours.

[–] Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I absolutely contributed to that and bought it day one.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to buy a 256GB stick for it lol

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[–] Willer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably at no point ever again. Bandwidth is so cheap these days that producing and shipping anything is always going to be more expensive.

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[–] shortgiraffe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I did my part!

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] Haha@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is the game worth it

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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 1 year 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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[–] Feugnis@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why couldn't it be preloaded?

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