Re: wow, lots of akamai

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

Lots of publishers will allow for new stuff to be pre-downloaded before a
specified release time. There was a time that it was probably helpful in
spreading the load out over time, but today it doesn't help much because
either everyone starts the preload at the same time, or people don't have
enough space on their console hard drives, so they have to delete the old
thing and download the entire new thing on release day. which also doesn't
help matters any.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 4:50 PM Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:

> * nanog () ics-il net (Mike Hammett) [Thu 01 Apr 2021, 21:51 CEST]:
> > I'm not sure what kind of time lines are expected or engineered for
> > now, but it *seems* like its a 12 - 36 hour sprint to push the
> > content out. If so, push it out to 36 - 72 hours? Adjust accordingly
> > for however much off I am on the first time frame.
>
> Doesn't that mostly depend on when people turn on their gaming
> consoles to play? It's not on the publisher to dictate how often
> people want to play their game.
>
>
>         -- Niels.