Games that used to be on Steam.

Just for fun. Does anyone know of a site (I checked Steam already) that lists games that used to be on Steam, but have since been removed?? Thanx.

Why would anyone archive that?

That would never happen. Elann2008

Technically all the new games on there with retail prices are ripoffs because you're paying for invisible manufacturing and shipping costs along with the game itself.

Technically all the new games on there with retail prices are ripoffs because you're paying for invisible manufacturing and shipping costs along with the game itself.

Sheppard212

I'm glad you know so much about digital distribution. I'm guessing you've never heard of bandwidth costs and server maintenance.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

They peaked at 164,725 Megabits a second today (That's 20.1080 GIGABYTES A SECOND). You know how much that costs them? A lot of money.

[QUOTE="Sheppard212"]

Technically all the new games on there with retail prices are ripoffs because you're paying for invisible manufacturing and shipping costs along with the game itself.

simardbrad

I'm glad you know so much about digital distribution. I'm guessing you've never heard of bandwidth costs and server maintenance.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

They peaked at 164,725 Megabits a second today (That's 20.1080 GIGABYTES A SECOND). You know how much that costs them? A lot of money.

[QUOTE="simardbrad"]

[QUOTE="Sheppard212"]

Technically all the new games on there with retail prices are ripoffs because you're paying for invisible manufacturing and shipping costs along with the game itself.

BDK-Soft

I'm glad you know so much about digital distribution. I'm guessing you've never heard of bandwidth costs and server maintenance.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

They peaked at 164,725 Megabits a second today (That's 20.1080 GIGABYTES A SECOND). You know how much that costs them? A lot of money.

It probably costs them more actually considering the pricing of bandwidth these days.

[QUOTE="BDK-Soft"][QUOTE="simardbrad"]

I'm glad you know so much about digital distribution. I'm guessing you've never heard of bandwidth costs and server maintenance.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

They peaked at 164,725 Megabits a second today (That's 20.1080 GIGABYTES A SECOND). You know how much that costs them? A lot of money.

simardbrad

It probably costs them more actually considering the pricing of bandwidth these days.

No, not at all. If I used my own home internet connection, I could upload 31 games at 8 gigs per game before I went past my flexible cap. At a monthly subscription of less than $50 a month, that's $1.61 per game. Businesses get a much cheaper price per GB than I do, and it doesn't take hardly any energy to run a server for one person. You have to have someone watching the servers, but you don't have to have a factory, or a production team, or buy gas, or buy the rest of the transportation, or buy the raw materials used for the packaging, or buy the ink for the front cover and manual, or have QC specifically for the manufacturing process... Just no, not at all.guynamedbilly

You do realize that servers of that size and number require separate buildings of their own to hold them, with dedicated air handling systems, and draw enormous amounts of electricity (which isn't free btw). Yahoo's data center in NY is a good example.

[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]No, not at all. If I used my own home internet connection, I could upload 31 games at 8 gigs per game before I went past my flexible cap. At a monthly subscription of less than $50 a month, that's $1.61 per game. Businesses get a much cheaper price per GB than I do, and it doesn't take hardly any energy to run a server for one person. You have to have someone watching the servers, but you don't have to have a factory, or a production team, or buy gas, or buy the rest of the transportation, or buy the raw materials used for the packaging, or buy the ink for the front cover and manual, or have QC specifically for the manufacturing process... Just no, not at all.denter21

You do realize that servers of that size and number require separate buildings of their own to hold them, with dedicated air handling systems, and draw enormous amounts of electricity (which isn't free btw). Yahoo's data center in NY is a good example.

[QUOTE="BDK-Soft"][QUOTE="simardbrad"]

I'm glad you know so much about digital distribution. I'm guessing you've never heard of bandwidth costs and server maintenance.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

They peaked at 164,725 Megabits a second today (That's 20.1080 GIGABYTES A SECOND). You know how much that costs them? A lot of money.

simardbrad

It probably costs them more actually considering the pricing of bandwidth these days.

Pointless thread because no games were removed, there are games that aren't on Steam at all or games that are only available in some regions.