That Steam account may cost you: Verizon wants to charge gamers extra for eating up bandwidth

I got a new computer recently and didn’t think twice about downloading some of my favorite games from my Steam library immediately. That’s 2GBs here and 10GBs there … oh, Max Payne 3? That’s another 35GBs. Well, if I had Verizon’s Internet service, that kind of behavior may one day rack up quite a bill.

Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam thinks that heavy data users should pay more for broadband access, according to IDG News Service. Yes, this means the people constantly streaming high-definition video from Netflix and downloading massive game files from Steam, Xbox Games Store, or other services.