28 Jan
2012
28 Jan
'12
3:54 p.m.
On 01/28/2012 12:01 PM, Josh Hoppes wrote:
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There is also the system Blizzard is using for World of Warcraft where the game can stream content down while playing. Most of these publishers/developers already have pretty good grasps on what capabilities are at their disposal thanks to the DLC model they have now, they will just be going an order of magnitude larger on the downloads. I wonder how many will also attempt to leverage P2P models as well to assist CDNs, Blizzard already does this, torrent-like downloads for larger patch sets. At least, unlike torrent itself, the upload direction does stop when you stop the game... cheaper for them and maybe even a revenue generator for ISPs charging for transfer overages. -- Pete