Torrents (magnet links) Thread

Can we get torrents (magnet links)? I feel bad for using so much ModDB bandwidth and using a torrent can be faster for downloading at least with more popular mods.

That you need to ask individual mod developers. They can always make a .torrent file, upload it here in a .zip and distribute files that way.

Plokite_Wolf wrote:

That you need to ask individual mod developers. They can always make a .torrent file, upload it here in a .zip and distribute files that way.

Of course, but I'm asking for a built-in magnet links for Mod DB.

It would still use ModDB's bandwidth, why shouldn't it? Better upload it to a big cloud server like Dropbox or Google Drive - they have nearly unlimited bandwidth.

Btw ModDB has enough bandwidth you don't have to feel bad for it.

Would ModDB be considered less reputable if it was full of torrents? ;-) Magnet links themselves would probably not be a problem, and it would indeed take some load off m-DB servers.

Not really. IIRC, Company of Heroes patches used to be distributed as torrents. Torrents themselves are not a synonym for piracy

Yeah, patched CoH that way and the very use of them was really surprising. Well maybe not, but quite a few big companies look at the torrents like they were piracy incarnate. ;-)