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Updaters/patchers for some popular games (Blizzard stuff, League of Legends, etc.) use P2P methods to reduce hosting requirements when pushing big updates to hu
by Crespyl 10y ago
Updaters/patchers for some popular games (Blizzard stuff, League of Legends, etc.) use P2P methods to reduce hosting requirements when pushing big updates to hundreds of thousands/millions of players.
I'm sure there's other use cases, but I'm not sure what they'd be.
- eumoria 10y agoyea Blizzard jumped on that train a while ago I'm sure it relieves them of so much load
- grogenaut 10y agoI can't find the link right now but I believe blizzard disabled p2p over a year ago.
- jedberg 10y agoNetflix and Facebook use P2P internally for large file distribution. The big issue with P2P publicly is privacy. A lot of people don't want other people to know what they are doing. Imagine for example youtube, or worse pornhub, using P2P.