why is steam so bad?

[ShatteredPumpkin]

above all expensive games steams download is the worst some games are downloaded in minutes and others in hours its like every game has its own download server i am really getting sick of this...

[WolfEisberg]

it is possible, and most likely, that Valve does load balancing depending on how popular a game is, so they'll dedicate more bandwidth to the games that are being downloaded the most vs games that are not being downloaded as much. You could try changing servers as well in Steam's settings cause it could also be dependent on congestion on the servers and some servers may not be as busy as others.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Issue is not with Steam...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1620992612

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1594682178

[Zekiran]

Since we don't know which games you're attempting to download or update, how large those downloads are, nor where you are in the world, or your internet provider, or your hardware, or...

It's not steam. click download and do something else, if it's taking a while. If it doesn't take a while, say "yay!" and play your game when it is done.

[WolfEisberg]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Issue is not with Steam...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1620992612

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1594682178

:qr:

To be fair, I know I have seen variable download speeds in the past, even after downloading 1 game after the other. Big variable, like full speed on one game, and then drop to like half on the next game, and then go to like 75-100% on the third game.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Since we don't know which games you're attempting to download or update, how large those downloads are, nor where you are in the world, or your internet provider, or your hardware, or...

It's not steam. click download and do something else, if it's taking a while. If it doesn't take a while, say "yay!" and play your game when it is done.

oh god how many times are people saying the same trash over and over and over again no matter who dude its not my internet or pc for christ sake srsly dude

[Roday]

Originally posted by  Insane PayDuck :

oh god how many times are people saying the same trash over and over and over again no matter who dude its not my internet or pc for christ sake srsly dude

I agree
It took me ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours to download max payne 3
But in the same time it only took minutes to download super meat boy

Steam is really bad

[nullable]

Originally posted by  Insane PayDuck :

oh god how many times are people saying the same trash over and over and over again no matter who dude its not my internet or pc for christ sake srsly dude

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Originally posted by  Insane PayDuck :

oh god how many times are people saying the same trash over and over and over again no matter who dude its not my internet or pc for christ sake srsly dude

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

hahahah everyone i know has issues with steam you wanna tell me you never had any issues well ♥♥♥♥ your wrong ...

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Originally posted by  Insane PayDuck :

oh god how many times are people saying the same trash over and over and over again no matter who dude its not my internet or pc for christ sake srsly dude

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

Yup, if it really was on Valves end we'd have hundreds of posts about it... I too have never had this type of issue.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

Yup, if it really was on Valves end we'd have hundreds of posts about it... I too have never had this type of issue.

sure ... dude i have 2 accounts this one and one i lost i use steam since 7 years dude you cant ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lie...

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Originally posted by  Insane PayDuck :

oh god how many times are people saying the same trash over and over and over again no matter who dude its not my internet or pc for christ sake srsly dude

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

well lets say the person has super fast internet, their speed tests show top speed all the time and every other gaming platform downloads at their top rated speed.

then we go to steam and see downloads wildly fluctuating from top speed to 0 or simply running slow.

i guess we can then suggest its a steam issue, which i usually find is the case and then steam drops an update and everything is working fine again.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

well lets say the person has super fast internet, their speed tests show top speed all the time and every other gaming platform downloads at their top rated speed.

then we go to steam and see downloads wildly fluctuating from top speed to 0 or simply running slow.

i guess we can then suggest its a steam issue, which i usually find is the case and then steam drops an update and everything is working fine again.

yup i have 120k line or whatever its called in english i should have max download of like 9-12 Mb per second i almost never have that max power i always have arround 8-9 on steam oh but dude only in steam not in other game clients like epic games or something else its only on steam so whos fault is it then my internet and pc arent . i think people only want to defend steam for some weird reason or maybe they are just lucky it didnt happen to them yet

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

You believe that. But if we had to pay a dollar for every claim from random users about it's never them or their system or their ISP at fault, we'd be infinite dollars in the hole and civilization would collapse.

I for one haven't experienced the sort of thing you're claiming, not to my memory of using Steam for nearly 15 years. Am I just lucky to not have been hit by these issues? Too clueless to realize it? Or maybe have you discounted a few variables too readily because it's easy to blame Steam and then sit back and not have to do anything but keep complaining?

Yup, if it really was on Valves end we'd have hundreds of posts about it... I too have never had this type of issue.

i can almost 100% assure you there are "hundreds" of posts about it, proving it would be difficult as every uses odd titles and word stuff differently, let not forget about the ones that get deleted because they become toxic and rage.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

Yup, if it really was on Valves end we'd have hundreds of posts about it... I too have never had this type of issue.

i can almost 100% assure you there are "hundreds" of posts about it, proving it would be difficult as every uses odd titles and word stuff differently, let not forget about the ones that get deleted because they become toxic and rage.

yeah exactly but i really think like Eisberg said its only on the most unpopular games cause like in game like ark or something popular i always have like 9-8 max but in some other games that arent that famous its going down to 3-2 mb or even 800kb

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by  Insane PayDuck :

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

well lets say the person has super fast internet, their speed tests show top speed all the time and every other gaming platform downloads at their top rated speed.

then we go to steam and see downloads wildly fluctuating from top speed to 0 or simply running slow.

i guess we can then suggest its a steam issue, which i usually find is the case and then steam drops an update and everything is working fine again.

yup i have 120k line or whatever its called in english i should have max download of like 9-12 Mb per second i almost never have that max power i always have arround 8-9 on steam oh but dude only in steam not in other game clients like epic games or something else its only on steam so whos fault is it then my internet and pc arent . i think people only want to defend steam for some weird reason or maybe they are just lucky it didnt happen to them yet

i run 200mb (25MB) internet and i have seen steam hit my max speed, but recently it has fluctuated wildly, sometimes even hitting 0 for no good reason, while tests show my internet is running fine on my gaming pc and my other pc.

its 100% a steam issue and they will sooner or later do some type of update and clear the issue, but for now i guess we have to deal with it.