[Suggestion]Distribute gw2.dat via torrent

[Suggestion]Distribute gw2.dat via torrent

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Posted by: Afya.5842

Afya.5842

Preferably the most updated one.

I have friends living in asia and they often have low speed downloading patches, so I think torrent is a very good solution. Not only it may improve speed oversea, it can also reduce server loads especially at patch day. It doesn’t require much to do at Anet’s side.

A lot of genuine software nowadays are distributed via torrent. A lot of games as well. Ubuntu does it. Raspberry pi OS does it. Half the mmo I played does it. I believe blizzard does it.

Thoughts?

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Posted by: Jae.5138

Jae.5138

Upload it for your friend

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Posted by: Afya.5842

Afya.5842

Upload it for your friend

Yea I setup ftp for my friend.

however I think official torrent would benefit not just oversea players, also anet server, and as an alternative for those who may have low speed patching.

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Posted by: Andred.1087

Andred.1087

Not a bad idea, although one potential problem I see is that if a bunch of players were constantly seeding the .dat file, then on patch day, those who hadn’t updated yet would be seeding an out-of-date version of the archive, yes? I don’t know if torrent clients could differentiate that and somehow guarantee only parts from the latest version get seeded, but it seems pretty messy.

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