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Xbox boss would ‘love to find solutions’ so games aren’t lost when the 360 store closes | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This problem was solved in the 90s with usenet and torrents

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And BitTorrent is already used to distribute games! Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute WoW, for example.

Small correction, though - BitTorrent wasn’t released until 2001.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute WoW

they haven't been using it for many years now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm, I had trouble finding official confirmation of that but did find a HN comment by scrollaway on this post who said they use “a proprietary http-based protocol called ngdp.” They also shared a document on the protocol and a commenter replied with a link to a deeper discussion of other ways to solve similar game patching distribution problems (amusingly, scrollaway also participated in that discussion).