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.

  • @Restaldt
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    -11 year ago

    Isnt that somewhat what filecoin was supposed to be used for

    • @merthyr1831
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      11 year ago

      That’s kinda what I was alluding to but couldn’t remember the name, yeah.