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They seem to ignore the carbon costs from having the game box in a store and assume all copies sell instantly or something.
They seem to ignore the carbon costs from having the game box in a store and assume all copies sell instantly or something.
When you release a game for the Christmas buying season, you always aim high since you can't produce a second run quickly enough to restock. However, at many game companies, perhaps only 15% of titles hit those potential numbers (and those 15% subsidize the underperforming 85%). Some games languish for various reasons including various bugs that are not cost effective to fix, or were discovered late and the developer took a new contract and is moving too slow on the patch, or the internal development team was canned etc. It's amazing how short the effective shelf life of most boxed games are (the 85% that drop to under 10% of peak in 6 weeks) and if they don't get momentum, you end up with a large quantity of excess stock destroyed for tax purposes. I wonder how the carbon footprint looks now...
This also makes me wonder about those developers in the 85% that have to go see a therapist because their game was a flop and they lost their loved ones working 18 hour days for no reason.
I meant to elaborate on that in regards to fuel usage.
I'm gonna be honest..I am not a huge fan of Digital downloading games..I want a physical disk.
That being said..even I call Bullshit on this study.
Why..
How much power does it take to power the servers to host the download files?
How much power for infrastructure / data center cooling and so on?
How much power to power the internet services used to distribute the files around the world?
Now factor in manufacturing of cables, servers and so on and other equipment used to connect users to servers...
Doesn't seem so impossible now does it..
Why..
How much power does it take to power the servers to host the download files?
How much power for infrastructure / data center cooling and so on?
How much power to power the internet services used to distribute the files around the world?
Now factor in manufacturing of cables, servers and so on and other equipment used to connect users to servers...
Doesn't seem so impossible now does it..
Study is faulted because they don't consider the Gas in the car you are driving to the Retail establishment. Then Amazon deliveries that the UPS guy make which burns fuel then you have to consider the truck that goes to the retail establishment to drop off the game.
True.Or brick and mortar shops. Come and buy physical games from us and save the world!!!
I'll point out again that even when I've bought games retail recently, I've had to go online to download an update before playing, effectively being the worst of all possible scenarios, enviro-wise.
You're a bad person and you should feel bad!!!
Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales , save those snails!
What if they ship out video games on thumb drives.
Can I pay carbon credits to AL Gore to pay penance for steam sales?
Same here. Every time I buy any computer accessory, it always comes with a CD or DVD, but I never use it. I go to the manufacturer's website to get the latest driver, manual, etc.They should for physical copies. I haven't used an optical disc in I don't know how long. (at least willingly)
Table 1 said:Lower bound scenario (kWh/GB transferred)
Customer premise equipment (modems/routers) 0.3
So my router and other network equipment downloads 9 GB per hour, but consumes 0.3 kWh per gigabyte, so it takes 2.7kWh per hour to run it. That means I must have a 2700 watt average power consumption during that time.Internet access speeds average 19.47 megabits per second (Mbps) (EC 2012), with a download time of 0.11 hours per gigabyte (h/GB).
I know plenty about the bees. But its not our job to police the bees.
In relation to my original post, "The planets not going anywhere!. We are! Pack your shit folks".
The earth doesn't share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children.
Why are we here?
Plastic. Asshole