MonkeyClaw36
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Preloading on Steam is pointless, why do people even bother with this?
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
Heh, yeah. Is that the highest speed available to you at all, or are the prices unreasonable? Are you in one of the US areas where there is literally just one option? Guess I'm pretty lucky here in Sweden, I can choose from like 20 different providers, with speeds up to 2Gbps (I intentionally have only 100Mbps though, don't see the point in paying for anything faster).
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DownLikeBCPowder
Member
I'm in Florida, United States. It's the only option available to me - right outside of the "neighborhood" there is 30+mbps DSL (not sure how high they go) and probably even faster cable from another company, they just don't come down "our road". And the DSL company seems unwilling to upgrade their own line in our specific area. We'd pay whatever we needed to in order to fix this, lol. I had 100+ at my old house and the absolute shock of coming back to speeds I used almost 20 years ago is insufferable. Back then 3MBPS was OK, but the internet has changed, everything has changed since then.
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Sleepwalker
Member
I just downloaded the 60gb of armored core 6 in under 10 minutes, fuck preloading lmao
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Do you have a really old/POS CPU or something?
It's unencrypting files is what is happening, very CPU dependent.
If you can DL a ton of data really quickly, why does this even matter to you? lol
It's unencrypting files is what is happening, very CPU dependent.
If you can DL a ton of data really quickly, why does this even matter to you? lol
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Elysium44
Banned
This is similar to me in Britain, I had 80Mbps over 10 years ago where I used to live, then I moved somewhere more rural and could only get about 15Mb. Although I still remember dial-up and then the early days of broadband where 1.5Mb was high end, so it's not too bad. For most things it's no problem but big games do take a while. They have actually recently put new fibre cables in the street and I can get 1 gigabit now if I want but I'm not really fussed for now, I've got used to it.
ahtlas7
Member
I can’t help it. Brussels thinks it’s 1982.
Why use tax €€ for infrastructure when you have a monarchy to pay for.
Drizzlehell
Banned
Well, at least you have Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Randall365
Member
‘Oohhhh - look at me - I’ve got a gigabit connection!’
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
A.Romero
Member
I didn't pre-load Starfield on Gamepass and I've been waiting a long time for it to download. Unlike Steam the Xbox App simply doesn't max out my connection (which isn't that fast for today's standards).
If the argument is against paying for it early I can see how it would be useful paying 24 hours before. I mean it's really the same unless you wait for the reviews and decide if it's worth it to buy the game at launch or not. If you are already decided then it doesn't matter. Specially with credit cards (click now, pay later).
If the argument is against paying for it early I can see how it would be useful paying 24 hours before. I mean it's really the same unless you wait for the reviews and decide if it's worth it to buy the game at launch or not. If you are already decided then it doesn't matter. Specially with credit cards (click now, pay later).
Embearded
Member
You really have no idea...
Drizzlehell
Banned
Those angry messages directed at me wash over me like the salty tears washing over the cheeks of people with slow internet.
Hudo
Member
Sadly, not having a monarchy to pay for anymore (I am German) doesn't mean your government is spending €€ on infrastructure either....
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