Noob Question about games

Not a problem for me, i live in MURICA.

No, its not bad for the pc. But it might be for your electricity bill.

My laptops been on for a little over a week already.
Laptop still working so i think its fine.

It's not bad, but you sure should take care of your computer. It's okay to leave your computer on, but if its a 20GB game then you may not be able to handle it. 2 or 3 days is a long time and your battery life will wear down, which happens anyway when a computer is plugged in. If its a PC it shouldnt hurt much, if its a laptop, still very little harm

What 20Gb game are you trying to dl/install? because i'm fairly sure most games i've seen are more along the lines of 5-10Gb.

I have the same problem as you, and let me tell you what I do. I never download during the day, only at night. Before I go to bed, I put whatever I need downloading during the night, for 3 hours. Sure it will take a few days, but the electricity bill wont be nice.

Here in Australia, we have AWFUL internet speeds, and very limiting caps. I remember about a year or two years ago I bought about $700-800 worth of games (during a Steam sale so only about $150), and it totaled up to about just under 200GBs of downloads. It was not an easy process. I had to leave my laptop on overnight, and then in the day take it with my and download on the school's even worse and unstable connection, so I could make sure that I wouldn't break my cap when I continued to download from home.

It took a lot of organising to stagger out my downloads over a few months, and thankfully Steam has resumable downloads so I could keep swapping around games that were nearing completion.

I can't remember the last time I had my PC shut down for more than just a brief restart...

my pc is on nonstop since 7 months now and its fine

I rarely ever turn off my pc. Been on for like what, months or half an year or so.

Is internet connection really that bad in the US?

My last PC was on for over a year and a half. This one's just hit a month, barring any necessary restarts. I want to turn it off, but I don't really have that choice unfortunately.

I never shut off my computer. It's been on continuously for years with no problems.

PC: permanently on. Only issue is that the PSU fan has dropped and it's grinding on the covering, sounds awful. Unfortunately bit tight on cash atm.

Internet: In SA we have some of the worst speeds in the world at the highest prices. To give you an example: my line is a 1Mbps and I pay $50 a month. I get shaped and throttled and they've recently sent out letters saying that anyone doing more than 40Gb a month will have their line speed reduced. So, dunno what I'm going to do about these massive downloads in the future (and I still have to install Crysis 2 and Dead Space...)