When you’re already losing interest in gaming, there’s nothing worse than having to sit through long updates because you haven’t turned on your machine for a while.
That’s why I like old offline games like Skyrim, the only updates I get are mods and when I want. Or I can just turn updates off.
old offline games like Skyrim
Oof! You’re technically right since it’s from 2011 and the “forced online single player games” scourge is endemic by now, but that made me feel ancient 😬😂
Is there no decent ISP where you live?
Let’s consider a “decent” Internet speed of 200 mb/a. That’s 25 MB/s so it’d take 1,600 seconds to download 40,000 MB. That’s 26 minutes, so nearly half of your time is gone. Plus there is always time spent doing something like “installing”, checking the files, or whatever other stuff needs to be done besides just downloading the raw content.
Also, you don’t always get 100% of your advertised Internet speed 100% of the time.
200Mb/s? What are you using, a 4G+ modem?
Average USA internet speed: 99.3 Mb/s
Average UK internet speed: 50.4 Mb/s
Average EU internet speed: 103.3 Mb/s
Average Japan internet speed: 42.8 Mb/s
Average South Korea internet speed: 110.6 Mb/s
Average Canada internet speed: 99.8 Mb/s
200 Mb/s is far above the average in any country on the planet.
In those countries and the EU in general, sure, but not every country
Your general point still stands, mind you, I was just curious about it and figured others might like the info too 😉
Quite shocked that Sweden doesn’t rank any higher though. They have or used to have the second most total fiberoptic bandwith in the world after the US which has roughly 30 times the population spread out on 22 times the area…
I guess I should’ve considered that places that are 100% city would have better averages than 200
Romania, Denmark and Thailand are far from 100% city though 😄 I’m not sure about the ratios in the other two, but here in Denmark, there’s a LOT more farmland, forest and smaller towns by area than cities…
Until just a year or two ago a 40gb update would take as much as 3 or 4 days to download and it would take up almost all of my data. Even most of America still has shitty internet.
Tbh I would not consider 200 decent. Gigabit minimum in 2023
Don’t pretend that any more than 1% of users would use anywhere near that much bandwidth. Even if you had five devices streaming 4K video all at once, you’d barely saturate a 200 Mb/s connection.
Large file transfers are the exception, not the norm. People don’t tend to regularly download or upload several gigabyte files on a daily basis. Maybe 2-3% of people who are either tech enthusiasts or graphics designers/artists/film makers do that but nobody else does, and even then 200-400 Mb/s will still be fine, nowhere near a hair-pullingly slow experience.
It doesn’t matter, I have a decent bandwidth and still end up losing interest while updating the OS and then the game I intend to play. I end up on TikTok or playing Switch.
Fibre optic ;)
Fibre is so good that you can still have internet from it after you cancel. It’s not much, it’s really really low drops of it, but it’s still there.
cries in ps4 wifi capped at 450 Mbps
Can’t just shut down comp too, it really wants to update, now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Don’t forget the changelog that reads something like:
- Fixed a number of bugs
Which, judging from the update size, makes you think the bugs are misnamed HD textures.
Man I haven’t had slow internet in so long I forgot people still struggle like this. My heart goes out to you peeps.
Thank you.
-Sent from my desktop tethered to a Boost Mobile-network powered shitty old phone hotspot
Goddamn MS Flight Sim is on Steam, but doesn’t update with Steam and forces you to choke down a 40GB update after you launch the game.
OMG YES! That shit was like a sleezy bait-and-switch, hiding that chungus download behind the initial installer.
Lmao yep that is exactly what happened to me and I audibly exclaimed “what the actual fuck”
This was my first thought, too. I loathe that STUPID MUSIC by now. I can hear it as I type this. “Duuuuuun duuuuuuuun dooooooo…” Over and over and over and over.
You guys are finding spare hours!?
That must be where all my hours I lose go…
You should really talk to someone if you’re losing hours of time.
You loose time? You dont know what you did that made all that time pass? Have you considered investing in a CO detector?
Yeah Steam Deck is cool but…god DAMN the update frequency.
As a Gameboy Color user, I am unfamiliar.
What, no Atari Lynx?
We’re a Colecovision family.
I recently moved to a place with fiber and paid out the ass for gigabit. I just got a new game on Steam that was 130GB, and it downloaded in about 30-35 minutes. Insanity.
paid out the ass for gigabit
That’s an odd payment method tbh. Fiber isn’t available in my area yet so that may be the reason for the difference, but my isp just subtracts money from my bank account! There’s little to no ass involvement at all!
You’re lucky. The rest of us gotta hussle for that G.
Yeah fiber so so good, I pay like $22 each month for 500 mbps. It’s a bit expensive so I don’t dare go for full gig
I once had a full gig fiber connection for free in my student apartment, it was glorious. Before that I had like 50 mbps so it’s hard to go back to that after the full gig
$22 has to be bundled with something like phone right? $22 for 500 is crazy cheap.
It’s cheap? Well call me ignorant or uninformed then.
But no it’s just the internet plan with a discount of $11 per month because my apartment complex has some deal with the internet provider.
Well I guess it depends on your Country/State, the cheapest fiber in my area is $50 for 500mbps
Lol. My apartment has a “deal” with our internet provider. A combo wifi/switch/modem is provided with the apartment and I have to pay an extra $15 a month.
What a deal!
Grand total is only $165US a month for unlimited 1GB down and something terrible up
Same! I pay nearly double what I was paying for 100mbps but it’s worth it. As soon as the service was enabled in my building I signed up straight away. In the same place 3 years ago I was only getting 14mbps as my only option!
This is why I leave my shit on. So it updates when I’m not using it, so I don’t have to wait when I am.
Flight simulator every time
Oh wow, I didn’t even consider checking for updates while I’m working from home.
