Steam Summer Sale 2017 - 22nd June

smogsy said:
its not viable. that's the point.

thinking about this:
you have to rent a Audio R8 for 365 days, But you can only use the power 4 days a year when you go to the track, would you rent said car? No you wouldn't unless your mad.

should they pay out millions for just a few days of issues on their store? No. its Silly Wasted Money. ID much rather tem spend the Extra Money they save on Steam UI/Feature development
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Ev0 covered this above, but fewer and fewer companies own their own servers on-premises now. Cloud hosting such as Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure can be cheaper, more secure, and have higher up-time than local servers.

But crucially, they can also be configured to automatically scale based on traffic and you only pay for what is being used. So when you have a light amount of traffic hitting the servers then it scales down to a small number of boxes to save money. When large amounts of traffic turn up (such as the start of the Steam Sale) then they automatically scale up to deal with the load. If you're interested in reading up on it, Amazon have loads of info on it, starting here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/auto-scaling-benefits.html
 
scorchedbee said:
I was just trying to quote your original to let you know it's down in price

I'm tempted but have pcars so unsure if it's worth it
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I was one of the backers for pcars, I lost the room for my wheel setup, it never played that great with a 360 controller so I lost interest, unless you have a wheel I wouldn't bother
 
Picked up Prey, the Zero Escape Trilogy and This is the Police.

Couldn't justify spending any more in order to get Nier Automata - Was a toss up between that and Prey. Will wait until xmas sale for that one.

Missed out on the £5 paypal credit :/
 
The sale is great if your looking at VR, so much of the better stuff at -50%. If you were thinking about buying a vive, now would be a good time. £50 off the base unit, with star trek bridge crew, that's the best value it's been since release.

The sale is far better than I thought it would be, my wish list lit up like a Christmas tree:)
 
lokiss said:
The sale is great if your looking at VR, so much of the better stuff at -50%. If you were thinking about buying a vive, now would be a good time. £50 off the base unit, with star trek bridge crew, that's the best value it's been since release.

The sale is far better than I thought it would be, my wish list lit up like a Christmas tree:)
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Tempting!
 
Left with £13.41 and trying to figure out what to do with the remaining. I still have a couple of games I'd be interested in; Hollow Knight, Dying Light, Hyper Light Drifter, Axiom Verge, Cross Code. Going to give the Hitman demo a try and maybe that can be another contender.
 
Picked up This war of mine for about £3 which is a steal considering how people who have played this rave about how good it is. Really looking forward to dabbling with it
 
ZombieFan said:
Ev0 covered this above, but fewer and fewer companies own their own servers on-premises now. Cloud hosting such as Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure can be cheaper, more secure, and have higher up-time than local servers.

But crucially, they can also be configured to automatically scale based on traffic and you only pay for what is being used. So when you have a light amount of traffic hitting the servers then it scales down to a small number of boxes to save money. When large amounts of traffic turn up (such as the start of the Steam Sale) then they automatically scale up to deal with the load. If you're interested in reading up on it, Amazon have loads of info on it, starting here http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/auto-scaling-benefits.html
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you can am i'm fully aware of that. but Vavle does not use this model of hosting
 
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