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> The fact that most use cases are currently download-heavy Is it still true? I am happy with whatever I got but I thought a big consumer use case is multiplay

• throw0101c 3y ago
  I think ten minutes of 4K video probably uses more bandwidth than a multi-hour gaming session: game coders are probably very efficient about what they send over the wire.
  • gunapologist99 3y ago
    and, even if the coders were incredibly inefficient, it probably wouldn't make much difference at all, because 4k is literally multiple orders of magnitude more data than just sending coordinates of players and bullets, which even Doom was doing back in the day with reasonable (playable) latency over dial-up. As you point out, for most types of online games, most limitations are due to latency, not bandwidth.