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I remember a game called "GunZ" (the 2005 one, i think) internally using torrents to propagate updates. But it was a long time ago.
by gens 10y ago
I remember a game called "GunZ" (the 2005 one, i think) internally using torrents to propagate updates. But it was a long time ago.
- Houshalter 10y agoI saw a game do that recently. It makes a lot of sense to use torrents and reduce bandwidth on their servers.
- dansze 10y agoA huge number of games used torrents for patching since around that time, notably in the MMO scene. WoW and every Nexon game come to mind. AFAIK the Battle.net launcher still downloads updates via torrent.
- dsl 10y agoThe Blizzard updater is actually a very cool download utility, worth hacking/poking at. AFAIK it pioneered the concept of "web seeds", using HTTP GETs with a Range: header to download specific chunks from a CDN that were not healthy/available in the swarm.
- tombert 10y agoI completely forgot about GunZ doing that. I guess I was wrong; torrents have been taken seriously for awhile :D