Bandwith cost of dll the demo

[Kraszu]

Maybe I misunderstand but VD told some ridiculous cost of band witch (cost of each download of AoD demo), why not use Torrent at least as an alternative way of downloading? Other companies do it like Blizzard.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Since I've never said anything about bandwidth costs, it's safe to assume that you misunderstood something.

 

[bozia2012]

Seems you've misunderstood Kraszu's question. There was nothing about bandwidth.

Well, back to playing Loki...

 

[Vault Dweller]

Well, technically he asked me about the costs of employing a band witch who would curse our enemies and perform all kinda awesome voodoo shit, but this stuff is private and I can't comment on it at this point.

 

[Nedrah]

You should still go with the torrent idea, it's always nice to see torrents used for things that are not warez. Oh, and it works kind of nicely, too.

 

[Elhoim]

Yep, torrents could be a good way of distributing a demo.

 

[GhanBuriGhan]

torrents, schmorrents. I want the band witch!

 

[The Vanished One]

What Nedrah said.

 

[Jasede]

Quite a few people can't use torrents because their network blocks them.

Why not just upload the demo to rapidshare or megaupload?

 

[Nedrah]

Good point Jasede.
I was assuming that would be done in addition to making it available via torrents by us users or by VD & co themselves.
Kind of funny we're having a thread about this, anyways. From all we know, AOD could well be 2 years away, yet.

 

[Kraszu]

It can be alternative method. Rapidshare or megaupload should be avoided becouse of the hassle that you have to go thought, it would not look to professionally also.

Since I've never said anything about bandwidth costs, it's safe to assume that you misunderstood something.

You posted about costs of steam distribution, and self distribution but it was some time ago. Anyway Torrent is great becouse everybody can use they connection to upload, and if you limit upload your download does not go down (50% of max for me) so there is no problem whit having it on when you do something else on pc.

 

[Nedrah]

Yeah, rapidshare/megaupload does look pretty unprofessional. It might be better if you just offer it for those people who are behind restrictive firewalls, but obviously it would be better to have a dedicated host. However, if you offer this at decent speeds, forget about anyone using torrents. There are free hosts that are better than others, filecloud is pretty decent imo for example - but I think the best way still remains mainly torrent. Or open-source it and host it at sourceforge :D

(kidding)

 

[Special_Can]

Kind of funny we're having a thread about this, anyways. From all we know, AOD could well be 2 years away, yet.

No, it can't be. This will not happen...

I wan't Band Witch to appear in the game now. She's not really a witch, she just thinks she is a witch because she can burn rubber...you can put her in her place. "You no witch, rubberburner!!!".

Yeah. Nice.

 

[jeansberg]

I don't know how this stuff works, but couldn't you let the likes of fileplanet or filefront host it, in addition to having a torrent?

 

[Mech]

I don't know how this stuff works, but couldn't you let the likes of fileplanet or filefront host it, in addition to having a torrent?

Ya thats what I was thinkining.