<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Maybe? 6 months? 12 months? Okay, maybe I'll buy it.<br><br>36 hours? No.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net><br><b>To: </b>nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:40:41 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: wow, lots of akamai<br><br>* nanog@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) [Thu 01 Apr 2021, 23:17 CEST]:<br>>However, the game publisher queues those requests. I'm meaning <br>>request generically, not a GET request or anything like that. The <br>>game publisher that contracts to the CDNs decides when to fulfill <br>>those requests, in the big picture. The game publisher is the one <br>>that then tells 100 million devices "Content Available". The rate <br>>that they do that is at their discretion.<br><br>Keep in mind that the publisher doesn't just create a bunch of new <br>assets to give away for free from the goodness of their hearts. Every <br>update comes with new hats, weapon finishes, heroes, trading cards <br>etc. that players are expected to buy for real money. Any delay could <br>kill the hype and impact revenue.<br><br>There is a lot of "But muh discard counters!" in this thread that is <br>perfectly valid and understandable and that I absolutely relate to, <br>but it's not the only perspective.<br><br><br> -- Niels.<br></div><br></div></body></html>