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Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoTry having millions of concurrent users all trying to update at the same time.
A single dota 2 update could use around 2-3% of the global internet bandwidth.
ysjet@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I actually seem to remember that back in ~wrath of the lich king (world of warcraft) Blizzard WASN’T doing this.
While blizzard had enough capacity to handle 12+million people trying to download the update because they prepped for it, the internet itself did not, and I want to say Verizon basically got its backbone DDoS’d and taken down.
Needless to say, Blizzard started breaking out it’s updates, using CDNs and cache servers, etc etc because Verizon had some very choice words (possibly coming from their legal department.)