So this is why Steam broke the other day.

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#1 Dreams-Visions
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Why did Steam break like PSN? Because they gave away Left 4 Dead 2 for free to everyone who wanted to download it, during which their bandwidth usage peaked at 4 TERABITS PER SECOND.

:-O

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#2 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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Just saw this on GAF, it's fucking crazy.

People like free shit lol

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#3 finalstar2007
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A friend gifted me L4D2 long time ago and i seriously need to play that soon >_<

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#4 k2theswiss
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crazy stuff

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#5  Edited By lostrib
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Holy shit

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#6  Edited By deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20
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Jesus Christ

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#7 gameofthering
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I hope they gave it away for free because they plan to announce something new.

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#8 lostrib
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@gameofthering said:

I hope they gave it away for free because they plan to announce something new.

That's one of the rumors since they gave away portal prior to announcing portal 2

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#9 ronvalencia
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@gameofthering said:

I hope they gave it away for free because they plan to announce something new.

Refer to http://www.destructoid.com/sources-say-left-4-dead-3-leak-is-the-real-deal-259564.phtml

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#10 freedomfreak
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Yeah, no shit.

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#11 II_Seraphim_II
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Never really understood the appeal of L4D. Game sucks to be quite honest. I played it solo and everyone said it would be awesome with friends. Played it with friends....and it still sucked. I guess its just one of those cases where I just really didn't like a popular game.

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#12  Edited By KHAndAnime
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@II_Seraphim_II said:

Never really understood the appeal of L4D. Game sucks to be quite honest. I played it solo and everyone said it would be awesome with friends. Played it with friends....and it still sucked. I guess its just one of those cases where I just really didn't like a popular game.

If you didn't play the versus mode, you didn't really do anything exciting within the game. Everything is pretty much training for the versus mode, and if you didn't play that, it's more like one of those cases where you judge the game without really playing it.

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#13  Edited By starjet905
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It's a classic case of people jumping at free stuff, even if the said free stuff is unnecessary. I myself am guilty of it, of course. I don't think I would've ever bought Left 4 Dead 2, but when it was free, I just could not not get it. After all, it's free and only takes a few clicks.

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#14  Edited By Ghost120x
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L4D 2 looks like garbage and it barely changed from the shallow first game. But since it's free....

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#15  Edited By nini200
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Oh please, that's all? My ISP pushes more than that to my house. I'm currently running my holographic 8k Lifesize image display at 15TB Down and 6TB Up. Lag free for the moment but I'm sure once Atari comes out with that new Online Qbert, I may need to upgrade my speed again.