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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
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[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Assuming there will never be any updates, 3 downloads is what regular gamer can do. First computer, second(friend's) computer and reinstallation on first computer.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

$0.025 per GB is the most expensive option on S3 I could find rounded up. It would be absolutely insane if Steam were paying those prices when they have their own servers. I also used 100GB game size as a large number, and $30 as a small price tag (for an 100GB game).

I was trying to be charitable with the numbers and it still came out pretty positive

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

$0.025 per GB is the most expensive option on S3 I could find rounded up.

What is cheapest and at what speed?

I also used 100GB game size as a large number, and $30 as a small price tag (for an 100GB game).

I get it, but then there are all those heavy f2p games like War Thunder, from which Steam doesn't get anything.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can look it up yourself, I was just giving a worst case scenario

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

aws.amazon.com doesn't seen to work in Russia