Steam Summer Sale 2017 - 22nd June
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A condition that a lot of the members of this forum suffer from?
Fantastic game, also if you have kids they'll love it. My 6 year old was fascinated by it and she's only really into Minecraft. She played it start to finish on her own and loved the puzzles and exploration.
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Google, Amazon and other sites don't have problems handing server load and since Steam is broken into regions, it makes the job of getting the server load balancing easier since you can dedicate server farms for each region.
It's not like Steam can't afford to do it, back in 2012, the company was reported to be worth $2.5/3 billion and Gabe himself is worth twice that and likely more now it's 2017.
I think the reason they haven't really upgraded the server infrastructure is because the problems don't last long, can be a few seconds to minutes.
Damn thing wouldn't work for me.
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Wanted Friday the 13th game, but it's not on sale. That sucks. I wasn't expecting a big discount or anything, but if it was around £15-20, than I would send it to my cart.
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I thought the format for sales now is they list everything on 1st day. Or we doing flash sales or daily again
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ok ty, if anyone gets some prices more substantial then this take a screenshot:
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The price for Stardew Valley seemed to be the best it's been, so made my first purchase. I might be tempted by Dying Light though.
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This is madness, spent £29 on 27 games so far, keep em coming!
Mine debits straight from bank account... Is that a mistake I've made? Did I need a +ve balance on the Paypal account?
Google, Amazon and other sites don't have problems handing server load and since Steam is broken into regions, it makes the job of getting the server load balancing easier since you can dedicate server farms for each region.
It's not like Steam can't afford to do it, back in 2012, the company was reported to be worth $2.5/3 billion and Gabe himself is worth twice that and likely more now it's 2017.
I think the reason they haven't really upgraded the server infrastructure is because the problems don't last long, can be a few seconds to minutes.
Damn thing wouldn't work for me.
Google is massive compared to Steam & it passing Text Data for the majority of the time.
Amazon Is Region Based.
Your also forgetting About 5 minutes after sales you may have X MIllion people Downloading a 50GB game Each at from anywhere from 8-100Mbps. Much more bandwidth Much More tha Amazon for just streaming Video
its just not viable for the amount it would cost & yes i am in server Data Industry
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Doesn't actually appear to be on sale but I remembered this little gem of a game:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/98600/Demolition_Inc/
Great fun and very addictive!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/98600/Demolition_Inc/
Great fun and very addictive!
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Steam is worth $2.5/3 Billion, I think they could afford to upgrade their servers. Steam is region based too.
The download servers are separate from what handles the store page, users downloading games and software won't affect the store.
Seconded, this is an absolutely brilliant game, and lots of workshop addons as well
Considering SOM GOTY edition and ABZU atm, though I'm not that big of a fan of the Batman style of combat.
A few others have caught my attention like Aragami & System Shock Enhanced - even though I said I would wait until the remake was out. However, for little over a quid, I may check it out. I think I'll check out some footage first, though.
A few others have caught my attention like Aragami & System Shock Enhanced - even though I said I would wait until the remake was out. However, for little over a quid, I may check it out. I think I'll check out some footage first, though.