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You Have To Stand in Line!
... For a lousy download‽
So apparently EA decided to give Battlefield 2 a final patch before turning around and milking parts of the franchise that people actually pay money for. It's only around a 2GB patch.
The killer?
They do not host it themselves, but instead depend on mostly retarded download sites that try to peddle "premium memberships", promising faster downloads if you pay (insert high amount of money), possibly per month. Regarding that, I have a message for you:
This is not the 1990's anymore!
There are far better solutions today, including content distribution networks like Akamai or Limelight Networks (CCP is using the latter to distribute EVE Online) who will happily distribute big chunks of data to a global audience in a hassle-free manner, so your users do not have to screw around with shitty download queues ("You are number 502174 in the queue, your download will start sometime around 2011. Plox giev monniez!") and sub-par data rates that would make a 56k modem laugh with glee.
Similar situation with the "too little, too late" Forgotten Hope 2, which got a 2.2 release to go with BF2's swan song. They distribute their ~3GB thing in two ways:
- via a password protected RAR torrent, and
- via a series of crap download sites that didn't work five years ago, and certainly haven't improved.
Folks, Rapidshare gets banged for distributing all the warez someone could possibly want as fast as technologically possible, and you really have to depend on sites that are failing epically since multi-gigabyte addons were invented?
Also, big news: the Battlefield community sucks ass at seeding torrents. They leech what they want, and then they kill the client because it's hogging their shoddily configured routers's bandwidth!
Go with the times!
By Shadowdancer, 2009-09-11, 11:51;
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Last updated at 2009-09-11, 11:55 by Shadowdancer