Picture of a lost iPhone, with a message to call the owner at a phone number. Guess taking pictures was in the job description, and returning lost property wasn't.
Comes in handy when the government agents are rounding up your neighbors. Except when they direct that energy at the neighbors instead of the government agents.
It'd be responsible of them to say that they can only provide 1 million downloads on the first day, or whatever the limits of their contract with the CDN says. Evidence that it's fake!
My naive perspective is that bandwidth will increase linearly with the number of visible players.
I get that the people doing the work know better than people who haven't, I'm open to learning more and can't make any ironclad statements.
Eve Online could do large-scale player battles before 10Mbps connections were available to gamers. And somehow much more efficiently per/player than Q3: Arena. What were they doing that you are not?
Why are all 1000 players visible to each other at once? The numbers I quoted were worst case, not a baseline.
Streaming sounds and FX every single time and never caching is a choice that will lead to 10Mbps, but completely unnecessary. All you "really need" is initial state, the timestamps / inputs of the other players, and reproducible physics.
At the absolute worst, a room full of 32-players in Quake 3: Arena would be sending 120 kilobits per second to each player. Fortnite peaks at ~400 kbps during the initial 100-player drop and goes down from there.
I understand that those are big budget games, but there is a lot of room for improvement in 10000 kbps.
Surely the Chinese government will see US gov's intervention and say "Government control of business is stupid, our industry will have more independence from CCP control for the benefit of the world".
I am asking those questions in good faith, to explore the new limits on free speech, and don't see any direct answers. What happens to this guy specifically is only interesting as far as it affects everyone else in the US.
Maybe every web query for Linux commands in $LARGE_COUNTRY checks all the Linux websites again.