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.

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

I did my part!

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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 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.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

My experience shipping things for large companies tells me that FedEx Express with volume discounts costs about $7-12 and you can buy a lot of terrabits of bandwidth for that much money.

However the idea of a branded thumb drive for every game sounds absolutely wicked and I'm now sad that isn't the reality we live in

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[–] 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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[–] 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.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

Using torrents would be relevant

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