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.
Mineis still downloading at about 600kb per second so it will be a while. I got pathfinder kingmaker super cheap so playing that for a bit.
I will buy it later this year when I upgrade my PC.
Steam would profit from integrating something like the bittorrent protocol for downloads imo
Off the top of my head, I know Windows Update and the Battle.net launcher both do this
Is this the highest it’s ever been? Pretty nuts.
