Steam Torrent Concept

No, it doesn't, but it would be awesome to earn sth while uploading. I'm also not sure if Steam really needs any help. It gets clogged during sales only.

Nope, it wouldn't work.

Too risky. And Steam has enough servers imho

i see zero reason why they should change their system. This is not wow or wot,there is zero reason why they should make the data passing through such a visible and exploitable system

So basically, what you are asking is to earn money while sharing a game. Forget about it. You aren't getting any extra cash you whore.

I'd seed for free

Its a nice idea, they would need to have less main servers and doing that spend less(even after giving some back to users)

After all everyone would win and steam would be more efficient

Worst idea ever. Valve will never do that.

Send Valve a mail and ask them for ten bucks. That's more likely to get you some money.

Seems like a good idea, but somehow it will be exploited, I highly doubt this will ever happen, but if it does, they aren't gonna keep it for long.

Well - with my 100 Mb upload it would make me rich!

But no - I don't think it would work - if they were to pay you 0.1 or even 0.01$ per 100mb upload it's much cheaper to just buy new servers and bandwich ;p

First thing I do when I use Blizzard downloader is to turning off the p2p dl (aka torrent), I don't wanna upload data as it's the publisher's job. We're paying them for it.

Shrug, I kind of like the idea. There are a shocking amount of people, that while they are probably pretty knowledgeable on the subject of torrenting, like to pretend they know "where Valve's issues lie" and things like "the issue isn't with the file servers, it's with the database servers"... completely nonsensical techno-babble. Unless you work for Valve and have the inside scoop.

Since I can only speak for myself and my decent grasp on the subject... the biggest issue I see is finding people to seed less popular games, and if everyone is required to seed, then the impact on those with already limited bandwidth (making a 20gb game double-y difficult to download with monthly bandwidth limits). If you make the service optional, then it's not really helping anyone since apparently a number of people would turn it off solely on principle ("that's the publishers job"). Maybe Valve could "officially" seed all games, but is that really much different then what we have now? Incentive to seed (ie. free Steam wallet cash) could help to remedy this, but $0.10 per 100mb would probably net most people $50 for a night of seeding a reasonably popular game. It'd have to be scaled WAY back.

Too many questions for it to work IMO, I like the idea though.

Im not opposed to P2P downloading whatsoever, but we wont be paid for it if it were to occur.

Opt out of it? Sure, but definitely not paid.

You do realize that money isn't free?

Valve can't just print money and put it into your Steam wallet because you helped seed a game. Sure, having some sort of P2P protocol for sharing data and updates across the Steam network would probably ease Steam's server load, but because of the way it works decentralizing probably isn't in Valve's best interest.