That Download ain't right.

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.

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.

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.
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!
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.

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.

On steam if you go into offline mode, then restart the client you can start a game without updating.

You can also set specific games to not update automatically.
unless this changed in the last 2 years, steam detects if a game has an "update pending" so regardless if you go offline, if it detected there was an update it prevents the game from launching. I tried to get around my parents crap download with that trick and it failed.
- Which is stupid! I want to play.
  Well my Internet connection makes it a 3 Minute wait for 40 gigs.
  But steam should stop the Update if I want to play
- You can usually go launch with the games executable, even if it's already started updating!
- Last week, simply restarting (exiting and opening) the client got around that.

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 😬😂

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.

As a Gameboy Color user, I am unfamiliar.

What, no Atari Lynx?
- We're a Colecovision family.

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

Sea of Thieves be like

Disable automatic downloads if it isn't a multiplayer game, and if it is get a singleplayer plan b game (make sure to allow downloads in the background if on steam that way the other game updates while you play)

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.

Oh wow, I didn't even consider checking for updates while I'm working from home.

Can't just shut down comp too, it really wants to update, now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The Gran Turismo 7 Singleplayer experience™

Yeah Steam Deck is cool but...god DAMN the update frequency.

BWAAAAAH!

Fibre optic ;)

cries in ps4 wifi capped at 450 Mbps
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.

Flight simulator every time

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.
- 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.
- 200Mb/s? What are you using, a 4G+ modem?
- Tbh I would not consider 200 decent. Gigabit minimum in 2023
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.
Back home a 40gb download was balls. 40 was almost my whole weekend at 1.2 down.