PoE client as Torrent download

Most of this new conversation is moot. They would deploy the torrent technology inside their own patcher. The patcher would always access an up-to-date torrent hash. You would not have to go to piratebay to get it unless they chose to host it there for additional exposure... furthermore that torrent would just download their patcher, which would access an up-to-date torrent.

Torrent is a download scheme, not what's been discussed here, and the viewpoints put forth are based on ignorance @EvilSheep

If the torrent is indeed embedded in their own download system then I obviously don't care, as stated earlier.

@Zeto I won't get into calling people ignorant or otherwise. I see it as a difference of opinion, something I think we can all live with.

I think all the OP was suggesting was if there was a direct download link on the official page, to also have a torrent version next to it. All the talk of dodgy websites and torrents being "unprofessional" is irrelevant nonsense. The torrent would be most likely be tracked and seeded by the same server providing the direct download.

Why choose a torrent over direct download? One possible reason is that you have a slow or unreliable connection. Torrents allow you to easily pause and resume, if you need to split up the download over multiple sessions. The also have inbuilt error correction, so you don't have to re-download an entire multi-GB file if some small part of it is corrupt. You can easily resume if your connection drops out halfway through etc.


But as zeto points out the whole thing is moot since they will most likely have only a small installer that then performs the downloading for you.

No way would I torrent it when I can direct download from the same country (NZ).
+ gameplanet will proberly be hosting it too.

Im sure someone will setup a torrent for it when it first goes OB.

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p0rt escribió:

No way would I torrent it when I can direct download from the same country (NZ).
+ gameplanet will proberly be hosting it too.

Im sure someone will setup a torrent for it when it first goes OB.

I'm the same but we have to think of other people who live in worse countries.

All we really need is 1 person to put up a link to the torrent in the wiki.

I agree torrent is a fine example of how to save the devs bandwidth, what you guys waiting for... Go Go Go ^^

Why not let people either directly download OR download it through a torrent? The main reason is that with torrents, it costs more bandwidth for the downloader so i believe that it should be their choice but GGG could strongly recommend the torrent download.

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Shark escribió:

Why not let people either directly download OR download it through a torrent? The main reason is that with torrents, it costs more bandwidth for the downloader so i believe that it should be their choice but GGG could strongly recommend the torrent download.

A torrent download would be very helpful depending on how big the game will be. It will allow people to turn of their PC, come back to it and begin the torrent from where it last finished.

Direct download is suitable if the game is small enough to download in one sitting - i mean i don't want to download the game over a couple of hours - that just annoys others that want to use the computer.

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Nightblaze1 escribió:

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Shark escribió:

Why not let people either directly download OR download it through a torrent? The main reason is that with torrents, it costs more bandwidth for the downloader so i believe that it should be their choice but GGG could strongly recommend the torrent download.

A torrent download would be very helpful depending on how big the game will be. It will allow people to turn of their PC, come back to it and begin the torrent from where it last finished.

Direct download is suitable if the game is small enough to download in one sitting - i mean i don't want to download the game over a couple of hours - that just annoys others that want to use the computer.

Chris told me in another thread that the size of PoE is 2gb at the moment. I believe that as long as your internet is decent, it should be only an hour maximum. (depending on the sites traffic that is).