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Blizzard games no longer use BitTorrent but a proprietary http-based protocol called ngdp. BitTorrent was causing a lot of issues with firewalls so users were d
by scrollaway 8y ago
Blizzard games no longer use BitTorrent but a proprietary http-based protocol called ngdp. BitTorrent was causing a lot of issues with firewalls so users were disabling it, so they had added http mirrors to them... And then CDNs became a thing, the rest is history.
I'll be happy to give more details on ngdp if you are curious.
- sametmax 8y agoPlease.
- scrollaway 8y agoHere, I pulled my docs for ya: https://gist.github.com/jleclanche/91f2f5c0f2042a81db1c61464ae6d459 https://gist.github.com/jleclanche/91f2f5c0f2042a81db1c61464... They basically created their own git protocol + virtual filesystem, optimized for asset patches inside large compressed binary files. I wish they'd open source it.
- exikyut 8y agoThat was interesting to poke through. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140257