Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to release such a large patch during awake hours. 

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush
This is Windstream, going dark..."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/23/windstream_fvoip_outage/ 

Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.

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Brandon Jackson


On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:

My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting several hours ?

 

-Aaron