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by freeone3000 3240 days ago
World of Warcraft (used to?) patch with Bittorrent.
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All Blizzard games make heavy use of BT-like technology for downloading patches to this day. It's extremely efficient. A 300MB patch to Overwatch downloading with the max speed my ISP is giving me (100 Mbps). It's a matter of 30-40 seconds.