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04-15-2012, 10:15 PM
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but may thrive in remote parts of the US or Australia for example.
Haha. Within the decade, 93% of Australia is going to have 1Gbit connections and the rest will mostly have 6+Mbit. Don't tar us by association.


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American ISPs have too slow of speeds and too many data caps for it to be viable in the forseeable future. People will also be less likely to buy a $60 game blindly since they can't trade it in if they don't like it.
I don't know where you're at, but American ISPs are faster and have larger caps (if not unlimited) than most of the rest of the world.



BTW, if you have access to fast internet elsewhere, you can actually download via Steam on a different computer (or get the files from a friend who has already downloaded it) and then transfer to yours using an external hard drive.
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