Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 release sees UK's biggest-ever gaming traffic for internet service providers

[Gamernyc78]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 release sees UK's biggest-ever gaming traffic for internet service providers

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 released today, and it is pulling in some serious numbers for many internet service providers.

www.eurogamer.net

According to EE, BT and Virgin Media O2, the game's launch and pre-load period has seen record traffic across each of the networks.

In a new press release, Virgin Media O2 stated on Wednesday 8th November, when the game was available to pre-load, its broadband network "hit 25.1Tbps at peak (8-10pm)".

 

[Gods&Monsters]

They keep making you download hundreds and hundreds of gigs every few days just to start the fucking game LMAO

 

[SLB1904]

Jesus christ

 

[Bryank75]

Ugh, do people ever learn?

 

[Danja]

Doesn't say much when the game is so fuckin bloated and everyone has to actually download the game since it isn't on the disc lol.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Biggest game launch of all time (in gigabytes)

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Doesn't say much when the game is so fuckin bloated and everyone has to actually download the game since it isn't on the disc lol.

Warzone and MWII are also included in COD HQ so everybody needs to download these huge updates even if they don't have MW3.

The MW3 disc is the same MW2 disc. They just changed the label