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Re:The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games by soup10 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:51AM (#21761305)
It's not spin at all though. web devs and high bandwidth users think the world revolves around them since they consume the majority of traffic; but latency is a huge issue in multiplayer games and players and providers are absolutely willing to pay a premium for lower latencies. You sometimes see professional e-sports players actually relocating closer to the servers for better ping.
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Re:The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games by RHSeeger on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:32AM (#21762660)
> they consume the majority of traffic

Do you have a source for that? Offhand, I would assume that video streaming would be an overwhelming majority of internet traffic.

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Re:The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games by kcolford on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:26PM (#21765273)
Video streaming is probably the majority of last-mile internet traffic. Along the public backbone is a different story as most video streaming services serve content at the edge.
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