What Good Are Download-Only Services If You Have A Rubbish Internet Connection?

Thursday, 20 January 2011 20:05

What Good Are Download-Only Services If You Have A Rubbish Internet Connection?

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It’s hardly a secret that many of us here are big fans of Steam, Valve’s digital download service that makes buying PC games pretty painless. Who among us hasn’t spent more than a few dollars during one of those big Steam sales?

The only problem with Steam sales is that, having purchased a game, you have to sit there for at least

several (long!) hours, waiting for it to fully download. Meaning, if that you were waiting all year to buy, say, BioShock 2, then when you finally buy it when it’s on sale for 75 percent off, you’ll probably have to leave the download running overnight, the servers being swamped with other, like-minded folks. That’s not fun at all.