3 ms·
Here's another one: Modern games are huge and SSDs are small. Buy all your games on steam. When you want to play a game just tell steam to get it and it downlo
by dmm 11y ago
Here's another one:
Modern games are huge and SSDs are small. Buy all your games on steam. When you want to play a game just tell steam to get it and it downloads at 50+ megabytes / second. Play your 20GB game in less than 7 minutes. When you're done just delete it.
There is no reason why games couldn't be designed for this use case and be playble immediately, downloading in the background.
- nitrogen 11y agoKeep in mind that the services you use have to pay money for bandwidth, too.
- solotronics 11y agoTransit bandwidth for a tier 2 ISP costs under $500 x 1 Gbs / month. Considering usage patterns and that the bandwidth is shared across users its a negligible cost from what I understand. I work for an ISP and from what I can tell all the money goes to employing people and the left over goes to infrastructure.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- dmm 11y agoIf Gabe complains I'll stop.
- c22 11y agoI consider it my civic duty to only stream content I know I'll only want to consume once.