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Game Pass has major issues still. No integrated backup mechanism; only 3 changes to your home PC per year... Imagine reinstalling more than 3 times to find out that you can no longer play offline; absolutely horrible download speeds... Compared to Steam which maxes out bandwidth; and the interface for Xbox Game Pass on PC is terrible.


> absolutely horrible download speeds... Compared to Steam which maxes out bandwidth

Yeah, I've noticed that. I don't know why they do that, it's annoying. If I can download a game in a half hour I'd like it in a half hour, not next Tuesday, please.


I wonder if this is due to MS hosting their content at fewer datacenters and thus needing to balance the data flow to each user better.

Valve has boxes hosted at many ISPs around the world and so each location could have lower usage numbers, thus less need to throttle.

Pure speculation though.


Valve's CDN (In my recent case, Akamai or Limelight) achieves fastest download speed I've ever used. I wonder why they do aggressively, and other don't.




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