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.

  • @joe
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    351 year ago

    Every once in a while I stumble upon a comment online that inadvertently reveals a lot about the person who made the comment.

    • @ngwoo
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      121 year ago

      Lemmy has bizarrely high number of commenters that I can only describe as “Ken M, but sincere and angry”.

      • @Cheems
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        31 year ago

        Oh man I forgot about Ken.

    • Ertebolle
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      1 year ago

      Married to a wife who has no problem with watching actual porn, but thanks for playing

      • @joe
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        271 year ago

        You made two in a row! Impressive.

          • @joe
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            81 year ago

            C’mon, be serious my dude; githyanki > elf

            • @Obsession
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              Can’t get much hotter than Karlach tbh

      • @ngwoo
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        61 year ago

        She has no problem with actual porn but you’ll need to find an excuse/get permission to play BG3?

        Doesn’t seem like a healthy relationship dude