Leage of legends uses p2p to distribute game content, and the game servers are directly hosted by them - no comparison to what valve does (having their own content servers, using no p2p at all, just providing a serverlist and some additional servers)
2011/7/28 Saint K. <[email protected]>: > Maybe an interesting thing to think about. People who know the game League of > Legends know what a free2play system can mean to your network load. Now I > imagine VALVe's/steams network being massively larger, but still the influx > of people seems to have a very negative effect on the steam backend > stability. I am uncertain of course what's causing this, but perhaps this can > be a tip. On LoL (afaik) paying players are being prioritized. Perhaps this > is something to think of for TF2 as well - cause from what it looks like > (specifically for loadsouts in peak hours) we're either getting queued or > some general connection limit is set to prevent it from overloading. > > Saint K. > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Reinhold > [[email protected]] > Sent: 28 July 2011 12:55 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Unstable steam backend > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:07:20 +0200, Saint K. wrote: >> From last night on the steam network has been incredibly unstable. >> Servers dropping off quickplay, clients getting booted because either >> no steam logon or VAC connection possible, load outs either not >> available or taking ages to load. >> >> Anything up? > > I could post hundreds of lines of chatlog from users complaining, it > would be nice to get an official statement of some sort. > > > /Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
