<story><title>Solving the 100GB Game Download</title><url>http://venusoft.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcchristie</author><text>This seems an incredible technical accomplishment.&lt;p&gt;My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren&amp;#x27;t playing a dozen games in parallel), and I&amp;#x27;m not sure it seems to be solving the latter.&lt;p&gt;The site says &amp;quot;stuck with 120mbps&amp;quot;, and the demo on YouTube artificially caps download speeds to 200mbps, presumably as if to simulate &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; connections. I&amp;#x27;m in Australia and get 90-100 mbps, which is half of the demo speed, and I would be an upper outlier in this country. I can only imagine the people really suffering from 100GB downloads are on circa 5, 10, 20, 40 mbps. I get 10MBPs (megabytes) down reliably from Steam, which means even a 100GB game would &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; take ~ 2 and a half hours to download. The speed used in the demo would take ~ 75 minutes to download a 100GB game! Is that really an outrageously inconvenient wait?&lt;p&gt;I sound more negative than I am. I guess what I&amp;#x27;m saying is I&amp;#x27;d love to know how slow your speed can get before this stops working well.&lt;p&gt;That said, truly an impressive piece of tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Right. 2.5 hours initial wait to then play a game normally is... fine. It&amp;#x27;s a non issue for most folks:)&lt;p&gt;I noticed Battle.net from BLizzard tracks couple of thresholds in the progress bar - when the game will be fully downloaded, but also when the game is playable. For many updates, those two thresholds are very close together; but occasionally, the &amp;quot;playable&amp;quot; is half the distance or less of &amp;quot;completed&amp;quot;, which makes me think somebody there is still putting in the effort :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Solving the 100GB Game Download</title><url>http://venusoft.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcchristie</author><text>This seems an incredible technical accomplishment.&lt;p&gt;My one question is, is it supposed to be solving for disk space constraints or connection speed constraints?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing both, but the former is pretty cheaply solved these days with a new drive (or by finally admitting you only need to have 2-3 games installed at once and probably aren&amp;#x27;t playing a dozen games in parallel), and I&amp;#x27;m not sure it seems to be solving the latter.&lt;p&gt;The site says &amp;quot;stuck with 120mbps&amp;quot;, and the demo on YouTube artificially caps download speeds to 200mbps, presumably as if to simulate &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; connections. I&amp;#x27;m in Australia and get 90-100 mbps, which is half of the demo speed, and I would be an upper outlier in this country. I can only imagine the people really suffering from 100GB downloads are on circa 5, 10, 20, 40 mbps. I get 10MBPs (megabytes) down reliably from Steam, which means even a 100GB game would &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; take ~ 2 and a half hours to download. The speed used in the demo would take ~ 75 minutes to download a 100GB game! Is that really an outrageously inconvenient wait?&lt;p&gt;I sound more negative than I am. I guess what I&amp;#x27;m saying is I&amp;#x27;d love to know how slow your speed can get before this stops working well.&lt;p&gt;That said, truly an impressive piece of tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cma</author><text>It would be faster to drive to a store, buy the game, and bring it back, I think you want to at least beat out that.</text></comment>