Lost Faith In Steam

[zer0kewl]

well steam growing is a good thing but servers should grow with them asswell tbh.

[AlphaLeather]

Just wanted to add that it took me 1 day to download UT3 via Steam.

But it is well worth it.

[rhiridflaidd]

THe problem is more to do with the massive, 2 DVD Empire total war being released on Friday, than it is to do with UT3.

So Steam got an unprecedented bandwidth squeeze this weekend. It means that steam is growing faster than it anticipated, and quite simply, ran out of bandwidth.

[Fluffy Meowington]

Yeah...I never ever had slow DL speeds for anything and I got over 35 games on steam and DL'ed them each more than once.

[RogueA]

The reason for the slow service was actually a combination of the free trial, titan pack, and the release of Empire: Total War. Had Empire come out another weekend, the free weekend would have gone much more smoothly.

[Mrn]

The idiot who started this thread should be executed.

[chicken32]

Yeah i changed it, last night it was going Full speed on Japan, now not so much. Trued Other regions too

[RyanSnake]

you are in the wrong thread. GET OUT~!!

OnTopic:
Have you tried changing you Region setting in the settings menu sometimes that can help to.

The thread title states: "Lost Faith In Steam"

[The Great TYF00N]

Question: How do you lose faith in something you're new to?

you are in the wrong thread. GET OUT~!!

OnTopic:
Have you tried changing you Region setting in the settings menu sometimes that can help to.

[RyanSnake]

Question: How do you lose faith in something you're new to?

[mjordan]

The fact is the free weekend is over and I'm downloading the Titan Pack at a whopping 40KB/s ... Ahahah. Fortunately I have the retail version. And the box is nice also

[Henrik]

I downloaded UT3 through Steam twice, each time it took no more than a matter of hours.

Did you know you can change your mirror if it's going slowly? It might help.

[chicken32]

Oh ok, can you also tell me if it gets THIS bad during new releases? How about when FEAR2 came out? I bought the boxed PC version.

[[YS]Alienz]

To answer your question, this is NOT a 1/1000 occurence but neither does it happen often. Its usually a 1/100 thing when something BIG gets released and many ppl try getting it on 1 day.

To my experience the vast majority of the time the Steam servers are FASTER than any site....I've gotten 2MB/sec CONSISTENTLY with them many times which no site can get. In fact when it starts downloading it overloads my internet so much no web pages work almost which is bizzare lol but it IS fast as ****. This weekend had the FREE UT3 being released, the 1.3GB update that the old users needed to install, and IN ADDITION, a lot of UT3 folks switched their copies to STEAM (from boxed ones) due to achivements. Those folks did not know how to transfer their installations so they just started downloading it again...that's 10+GB per user. That's why the servers have been **** right now.

[chicken32]

I know that, but I just want to know For every new release, does Valve prepare themselves for it? Because from this, they haven't.