World of Warcraft Via P2P

by Shawn @ 8:38 pm · filed under Tech Stuff, Games

It looks like Blizzard is one of the growing number of companies that have realized that peer-to-peer file sharing technology has some great uses. I just noticed they distribute World of Warcraft (full DVD and updates) via P2P technology. Cheaper because it uses the end user's upstream bandwidth.

Neat!

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3 Responses to “World of Warcraft Via P2P”

Patrick Says:
December 10th, 2006 at 10:28 pm

you have no idea how jealous i am of ur download rate. damn my WISP for not having faster speeds

Mike Says:
December 12th, 2006 at 10:17 pm

I do not think it is neat in _this_ case. They save _their_ money, but provide _me_ with worse service. Sometimes I am forced to use some free mirror set by some kind soul to get my update and not miss a daily fix of WoW…

You see: some guy who has not get a penny from me is able to provide better speed and bandwidth than Blizzard which charges my card monthly. Neat? Don’t think so.

Tim Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:14 am

I got hit last month for $120 for about 10+ gigs of uploads.

Since then I have watched my connection - NOTHING untoward happened until today when I got the patch 3.2 which was 400mb.

This day I uploaded 4.5gb of data. Or in other words one half of my months total bandwidth. Thanks Blizzard you fkn rock! (not)

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