Doesn't sound entirely 56k friendly, though that's an awesome idea. Luckily they designed the engine to be that flexible, hey =) I'd love to see a mmorpg on the HL2 engine, though that random company that leased it doesn't sound entirely too promising, and there's no way in hell a 'mod' team could work one together :( Ah well, forcing users to upload more data then they have to will cause them to complain if they know about it, and if they don't, someone will find out and bring on the conspiracy theories.
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
HoundDawg wrote:
Yes, I have to agree, that WoW downloader is one of the worst solutions I've seen to date.
One of the slickest file download/update systems I've seen, it he GuildWars one. The initial game download is very, very small and quick. Then, it downloads what it thinks you need just before you need it, while you are playing what has already been downloaded. Any game updates are sent in the background and are implemented while you keep playing. I really never would have believed it or liked the concept if I hadn't experienced it. Lag? I never noticed any, at all. This is coming from an MMORPG that hasn't even released yet.
- HoundDawg
Yea, lets have a rerun of the Blizzard downloader, where it works in the torrent scheme and you upload more then you download (which actually counts when your upload is metered [damn australia]). The whole p2p thing has most likely been discussed and it definately would cause a rather large uproar in the community. I heard somewhere that the original creator of bittorrent is working for valve now? I'm not sure how true that claim is, but aside from that, it probably wouldn't go so great for Official downloads. Sure, for mods it'd be good, but CS updates and stuff should remain on fast servers :/ And STEAM uses VGUI2 afaik.. so you won't be getting windows widgets anytime soon =)
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
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