Expect the games you don’t play to update at quieter times.
With much of the world at home and clogging up the series of tubes that is the internet with their Netflix and Apple TV+ and Nintendo Playstation Networks, it’s only a matter of time before companies started coming out and detailing their efforts to cut down on the overall worldwide network strain.
Valve has come forward with their own announcement on how Steam will manage spready bandwidth. The simple answer is that the games you don’t play regularly, as in haven’t played in a few days or more, will be automatically updated at a more sporadic pace. So you’re going to see a lot more titles in your library pop up as “update queued” in the weeks ahead.
Naturally playing the game will automatically bump your queue to download, or you can download manually.
“For games that haven’t been played recently, Steam has already been scheduling updates for the next off-peak local time period. Beginning this week, we are now spreading these updates out over several more days. Only games played within the last 3 days will be updated immediately. As always, the game will begin updating immediately if you request to play it, and you can always initiate an update (or pause it indefinitely) through the Download Manager. We’re also looking into additional solutions to help on our side.”
For more information on the update, check out the Steam dev blog below.
Source: Steam
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