When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps

that's a lot of tablepoons

And that was just one copy.

And it still gave me 800Mbps consistently right at launch time. Good servers.

It's always amusing to me when a game has a huge download size but is also an overhead view game and you probably can't even get the camera close enough to the world objects to see the full texture detail.

Steam would profit from integrating something like the bittorrent protocol for downloads imo

I'm pleasantly surprised how many people are playing this game. I figured that DnD although popular, was still kinda a niche. Yet this is topping Steam charts which is great to see. Hopefully it means more of this quality to come, there is obviously a big market for it.

I can't wait to get home and get stuck in!

Didn't know this stat was public. Cool

In that spike my download speed went from 80 to 2 Mbps, I tried right after with another game, got 80 again. Baldur's Gate really strained their network

Precisely why data caps for fixed-line broadband was an extremely ridiculous idea to begin with.

Anyone who has info about the environmental impact of something like this, compared to physical media? Not trying to be a downer, I'm genuinely curious.

Not the right place to ask, or maybe to be seen. But I watched ACG's video on this and I LOVE the classes and how meat n potatoes they are. No guffy [what I call] Horde style shit like Necromancer or whatever.

I've only ever played DnD once IRL in a discord and some online board thing, but I enjoyed the dice rolling and how posistioning worked. Is it a bit of xcom meets diablo if I twisted your arm to compare to another game genre? A friend and I tried that Gloomhaven game and we HATED it lol, but this looks a little more engaging at least from a very first glance.

Plus a few friends have picked it up, so i'm not sure if I could join their game to help kinda like we did with D4 which was super fun.

If it out out then? Nice. I'll wait for it to go on sale though. I'm poor AF.

Isn't this basically the same with every bigger release?

So that's why my download took 15 hours.

I absolutely contributed to that and bought it day one.

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.

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.

At what point does it becomes cheaper to ship it to the buyer on a thumb drive?

I did my part!

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.

Is the game worth it

Why couldn't it be preloaded?

Using torrents would be relevant

Is this the highest it's ever been? Pretty nuts.

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.

And I helped!!!

And still only 0.1% of players have 'Descent from Avernus'

Are you even playing the game?

I will buy it later this year when I upgrade my PC.

There's no reason this game should be this large, it's ridiculous.

sadly, there are already better games than BG3. im not super keen on BG3 at all.

Socially acceptable T&A, same reason everybody was into The Witcher; with BG3 you can even tell your parents / girlfriend / whatever that it's a sequel to a beloved game you remember from your childhood.