steam special

[Soap Mactavish]

Mw2 is now only 40$ for this weekend. Despite being a "noobish game" it is still extremely entertaining and a pretty compelling campaign imo. I recommend it unless you plan to by black ops next month

[aeria.]

The reason for the sale was to maximize profits until Black Ops comes out. XD

[Soap Mactavish]

Where is my black ops preorder?  I hope they offer dedicated bandwidth (excuse faulty terminology plz)

[aeria.]

Where is my black ops preorder?  I hope they offer dedicated bandwidth (excuse faulty terminology plz)

Dedicated servers is what you meant?

I've already gotten a copy of MoH however it's locking me out because it's not released until tomorrow. >.>

[Jedikiller]

They do have dedicated servers, but they are only through one provider... the worst one in the industry, in my opinion!

[aeria.]

They do have dedicated servers, but they are only through one provider... the worst one in the industry, in my opinion!

Not the worst, but it spends a lot of its focus on advertising and they get a bit pricey. At least they have good latency.

[Soap Mactavish]

no i meant they dedicate a certain dl stream so you can get your game without the freakin 4 day wait

[Jedikiller]

Oh, that's just a problem with the delivery network. Steam uses like 20 gigs of bandwidth at any given second. This is on an off day.

On a normal day, they usually use about 30 gigs per second. On a loaded day, it's probably more like 50 gigs per second. Limelight Networks (the company who does the downloads for Steam) is good, but even they have a problem dealing with that much transfer without some slowdowns.

[Soap Mactavish]

Maybe they should do the same thing Google does, make themselves their own ISP. I bet that costs alot of money tho that only Google can pay for