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.

  • ollie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    so high quality that they go down for maintenance every Tuesday…

      • ollie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        normal? not at all. Imagine if youtube went down every week, and they have way more overhead than steam