Offtopic since i admit, i'm simply proding at the topic and would be interested in seeing where this ends up going..
@billbennett did a great write up on this last friday.
https://billbennett.co.nz/fortnite-update/
Imagine if at 9pm one Thursday evening there was a sudden 20 percent surge in demand on the electricity network. At the very least there would be a few households reaching for candles and electric torches.
Yet that’s exactly what happened to the national internet network last week when a software update to Fortnite, the popular computer fighting game, landed.
The network company Chorus saw a 20 percent spike in traffic yet nothing untoward happened. There were no reported outages. If anyone noticed their fixed-line connection slowing, it wasn’t serious enough to be public news.
Noticed fortnite changed their launcher at some stage, to default to boot with windows (i never set this...) and so come patch time tonight, instantly pegged.
While 20% goes somewhat unnoticed, I'm waiting for some of the smaller providers who simply don't have the legroom to quite spread out to handle random 20+% spikes without noticing a hit.
Just wait for Epic to slide the update time out to 6pm along with peak for netflix!
Gone are the days cats are to blame for all the utilization... *icry*