a large COD Modern Warfare update yesterday has been the source of a bunch of discussion on NANOG and r/networking due to the amount of traffic
though most of the NANOG thread is old heads reminiscing about internet speeds back in the day
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-February/thread.html#105867
https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/f2voie/to_my_isp_friends_how_you_doing_after_the/
the COD update, 68GB on Xbox One
Akamai CEO tweeted that their edges reached 140Tbps in peak traffic
https://twitter.com/TomLeightonAKAM/status/1227389107665592320
@packetcat I was like "dang that's half the game" but it's more like a third (assuming the 175GB recommended for the PC version)
I genuinely wonder if they're just dumping in data to make the files bigger nowadays, there's probably real benefit to it since it keeps people from wanting to uninstall it and from installing other games
@noiob nah I think its just high res textures are massive now
and they are probably sending them uncompressed
@packetcat I thought the new Doom was annoyingly large
or NieR: Automata, but they just forgot to compress their videos
@noiob 70G for Doom (2016) according to Steam
right now the biggest game I have installed is Destiny 2 is ~87GB
I've been considering investing in a larger SSD for games because AAA games are getting so big
@packetcat yeah, but I feel like it's justified for Destiny to take up a lot of space because there's so much game there
