Originally Posted by Stargazer
Originally Posted by Tyhan
...It's not as if there aren't costs involved in what steam does. Bandwidth isn't free after all.
Bandwidth cost is peanuts to the point where many hosting providers offer free unlimited bandwidth.


Keep in mind, that there are other costs besides bandwidth. Servers have to be maintained, with multiple redundancies, for all the games currently for sale (or were ever for sale at one time) on Steam. Technicians have to be paid to maintain those servers. And all this on multiple networks across the globe, so as to have multiple download servers in case of outages or bad pings. I'm not implying Valve isn't making money, but there are a lot of costs involved in even digital distribution, and I haven't even covered all of them.