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Some have. Blizzard used a variant of BitTorrent about 10 - 15 years ago to distribute the multi-gigabyte patches for their online games. Peak demand was very
by retrac 5y ago
Some have. Blizzard used a variant of BitTorrent about 10 - 15 years ago to distribute the multi-gigabyte patches for their online games. Peak demand was very high with hundreds of thousands of users all on the same day.
It was built into the game installer / launcher. I think they've switched away from that since. I remember it causing some consternation at the time given some people pay by the byte for network service and felt it was unfair.