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Didn't some mmorpgs do this to distribute updates over the client while you were playing?
by Moru 7y ago
Didn't some mmorpgs do this to distribute updates over the client while you were playing?
- mebo 7y agoBack in the 2010s, yes, not anymore though afaik, I assume that CDNs/traffic got cheap enough to not go that far. Microsoft actually introduced P2P update sharing with Windows Update for Windows 10, I think it's enabled by default.
- noisem4ker 7y agoP2P Windows updates make sense where large numbers of machines in the same LAN may be updated at the same time.
- bavell 7y agoBlizzard used (uses?) it to distribute patches for WoW. Back in the day the patches were quite large (multi GB) compared to available bandwidth at the time.