Having lived through the early horrors of WoW patches and updates, I have nothing but praise for how WoW works today in terms of updates and distribution.
My favorite feature is how it supports incremental loading. WoW is a huge game, but you can start playing with a fraction of the assets. It will play in a downgraded way with place holders and lower quality assets as well as skipping entire areas completely.
You can reinstall from scratch and be up and playing in minutes. It’s one of the hidden joys of the platform that players mostly take for granted, but I appreciate the no doubt legion effort involved to pull this off, to change the wheels on a moving train, and to deliver just uncountable amount of data with little drama and great performance.
So kudos to you for whatever your contribution was to making such a core facility to the system so painless for the end user.
My favorite feature is how it supports incremental loading. WoW is a huge game, but you can start playing with a fraction of the assets. It will play in a downgraded way with place holders and lower quality assets as well as skipping entire areas completely.
You can reinstall from scratch and be up and playing in minutes. It’s one of the hidden joys of the platform that players mostly take for granted, but I appreciate the no doubt legion effort involved to pull this off, to change the wheels on a moving train, and to deliver just uncountable amount of data with little drama and great performance.
So kudos to you for whatever your contribution was to making such a core facility to the system so painless for the end user.