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Well for one how would they offer cheaper DLC for instance, thats not their property to give away at a discount.
For another your not guaranteed to get any better speeds by torrenting, and you can actually get worse speeds if no one is torrenting the files. Plus it would actually require people who participate to have those files on thier computer, for the computer to be running, and so on.
Plus in this day and age it seems like most ISP's have CAP's. So your idea would probably result in people paying thousands of dollars in overage fee's, so all in all it doesn't really seem feasible.
Not to mention the potential issue that people could technically modify the files and introduce viruses to steam and upload them to users by modifying the files....
Valve has enough bandwidth to saturate a multigigabit connection. I've seen videos from people who had fiber optic connections and were getting a gigabyte of speed. Think of it this way, Valves download servers are a city water main. Your connection, is at best a garden hose.
If you are not getting your full speed, look on your end or your ISP is slowing things down. Also try changing your download server somewhere else, it could be a pathing issue. A torrent would not solve your speed issue.
And as everyone already said, at best they could only discount DLC for their own games. Which they already heavily discount already every time there is a sale. They and other game makers get nothing out of this.
Also game servers and download servers are 2 totally different things. If the game servers are having issues, that has nothing to do with people downloading from the download servers.
I like Valve and all, but I am a customer, not an infrastructure resource.
Also ^^^^this^^^^
In my years on Steam i never had it that a game didn't download at all, it may have been slower than usual (temporary) but it eventually finished, i don't really see the point in using torrents, nor would i want to rely on seeders that may snatch&leave at any given time, slowing everything down.
They're already doing it and no Valve will not be 'paying' to use your slower, less reliable, less secure bandwidth.
Steam downloads are heavily compressed, and saturate even gigabit connections without much effort.
Normally, download rates aren't much of problem, unless the DL server that you're using is whacked.
In which case, you could just change the DL region...
There are over 130 to try.
Any server near me was slow as dirt. Nearest does not always equal faster.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9498-WPDF-3220
Today, Rio was better for me. Yesterday, Sweden was better. Btw... I'm on the East Coast.
Average speed for me...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1620992612
During high traffic or ISP throttling...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1661600888
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Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
Your game downloads are generally capped by your disk IO or your CPU speed
I do believe Steam Client downloads using multiple HTTPS (previously HTTP) streams in parallel, which should max out most connections no problem.
If you notice slowdowns, it is likely the client is being bottlenecked by CPU or disk usage from unpacking the compressed data files. I see it happen all the time on my client, bandwidth usage drops and disk usage spikes.