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.

  • snooggums@kbin.social
    23·
    10 months ago

    The original Dawn of War ruined isometric games for me since it allowed the pan and zoom, with mods allowing even more zooming in an out. BG3 having that ability has my interest peaked!

    • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      Please, please don’t take this as any insult or criticism, but for future reference, it’s “piqued”.

      This particular homophone is almost as devious as “milquetoast”. (Sounds like “milk toast”)

      Edit: someone beat me to it and now I feel like a jerk for piling on. Sorry!

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        An easy way to remember “milquetoast” is with context, here let me use it in a sentence:

        “Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath is an Eccentric-class Offensive Unit.”

        See, didn’t that clear it all up?

      • velxundussa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I’m not the person you answered to, but as english ain’t my first language I figured I’d ask:

        I get that this person was trying to say “piqued” as in “got my interest”

        But wouldn’t “peaked” as in “my interest couldn’t possibly get higher as it has peaked from that new information” also be valid?

        (I get it’s a saying, but as I’m not familiar with that saying in english it didn’t bother me, which is why I’m curious)

        • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          piqued implies a mild interest worthy of further investigation.

          peaked implies interest can’t possibly get any higher, as though they were already super interested, but the ability to pan the camera eclipses all other interesting features.

        • duckington@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Yeah it technically would get across a similar meaning. And at this point I see “peaked” more often online than the right one. But “piqued” is the idiom— not that it matters all that much.

          • accidental@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            5·
            10 months ago

            For a long time I mixed up deprecated (meaning, no longer supported) with depreciated (meaning, having lost value over time) because they can both kinda apply to the same situations, if you tilt your head the right way.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
        4·
        10 months ago

        The inability to zoom out is my dealbreaker for Diablo. The limitation doesn’t feel immersive to me, it feels claustrophobic.