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@zombiepie: Thank you ZP. You are always the best. I tend to over report so I probably have a lot of unnecessary info, but you never know what will help in these things.

I thought of this when I was at work today, but also I did a traceroute to the Giantbomb server where the videos sit at- https://static-mt-rv-v1.giantbomb.com/. It appears normal- no strange latency or stops anywhere. Although, if the issue is at the CDN maybe they fixed it now or something. Maybe less people are on right now. I have so many variables in my mind, but I really don't know if it's any of them.
I really hate when downloads drop because It's so hard to tell where it's coming from on the user end so I tend to over think it, but I hope my info helps.
Right now the downloads actually look normal. So maybe it's resolved.

Windows 10

Chrome Version 117.0.5938.92 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Speedtest conclusions:

304.44 Mbps D 11.73 U
352.7 Mbps D 10.57 U
363.72 Mbps D 10.98 U
15 ms ping

I did a speedtest to SF, california just cus as well:
361.08 Mbps D 9.87 U
68ms ping
Totally normal.

I don't use Anti Virus, but I turned off my blockers for testing purposes.
This information is just for reference. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but maybe it could help ya'll. I never know so I included it.

I'm not entirely sure what's causing this. It's actually been a minor problem with this site for a few months now, but today it's been pretty extreme. I am only reporting it, but I realize this problem is complicated and could be anywhere so I'm just here to report it. I hope you guys can fix it in time, but if it's somewhere else down the line it could be much more difficult to fix since you may not be able to see it. Who knows? It could be the CDN and seem to randomly fix itself. These things happen.

I have been regularly experiencing what I am calling packet loss on video downloads from this site- although to be fair it could be other things. As I said this has become a thing that will happen with this site recently, but today it's been extreme. Specific Explanation: When I download a video from the site the download speed will eventually decrease (from ~3.3 Mbps which is slow but... expected now from this site) until it completely stops (Failed: Network Error) and wants me to resume the download. Normally this is pretty sporadic and mostly doesn't happen (so I haven't looked into it or reported it before) with the occasional times that it will, but today it stops the download about every three minutes or so on every single download. Every time. I assumed this is packet loss, but it could be collisions, or maybe something else (could be new owners changing CDN and... you know... whatever), or it could be the thousands of people that still use the site downloading all at the same time for no reason at all right now overloading something. Lots of potential causes- no way for me to know specifically from my end.

Anyway, I do not use any significant routing or NAT so I don't think I am experiencing anything extreme on my end and when I run a constant ping to yahoo I am not seeing any packet loss- and no significant change to ping times. This issue also only happens on this website. Youtube downloads are fine, Twitch, etc.

And just for specific clarification so there is no confusion- I mean MP4 downloads of the videos not streaming of videos. Good luck. I don't expect anything, but if you can find a cause that's cool too.

@fugoy: Thanks for your feedback. That wasn't my point, they weren't subjugated by corporate before, and now they're going to be a brand studio for content creators.
I'm not interested in this direction they're going. I don't have to be. I've accepted it, and you should accept that I am allowed to feel that way.

@oopprraahh: Same, but they are also (archived?) on Youtube. I mean- they don't have corporate support anymore so they have to work their way up again- in terms of gear for producing content. They probably wont ever have the support of engineers to make them a video/streaming player, either. Which is unfortunate. But in time I think they'll come up with something. They've always been pretty hard working and inventive. They'll figure it out in time.

I'm not really excited about this. There's nothing worse than corporate oversight. It's cool, though, that they're turning Giant Bomb into a brand starting with people we know (minus a couple I wont go into because they're awful so I'll ignore them), but as a person who knows exactly what this turns into I know this is going to push me out.
But that's fine. Not everything needs to be for me. I hope it's profitable for the Jeff's. Nothing else about Giant Bomb truly matters at this point- and I mean that with love. This is no longer what it was and I've come to accept that and moved on from hoping it would recover.
I wish the best. I'm pretty sure a corporate Giant Bomb is not for me.

It's always been difficult. You have to want to learn it, and even then it really depends on the developers on how intuitive it can be, even still in 2021.
I remember when analog first became a thing. Even just before that when you could do it, but didn't have to- on most PS1 games- I really hated it. I couldn't wrap my mind around it at all and games that required it I immediately lost interest in. It didn't really make sense until PS2 and even then it depended on the game. It wasn't until XBOX and PS3 era when analog started to "feel" right on "good" games.
It's still a very unintuitive control scheme. There's only certain games even today that kind of make sense with analog controls (like Dark Souls), but most games it still doesn't even make sense logically so it doesn't totally matter. It makes more sense to use keyboard and mouse for most games. It's the most intuitive layout.

I started watching Bobby Lee's podcasts (TigerBelly and Bad Friends). They're hilarious among other things (he takes honesty in podcasting to another level).

I don't think they're lieing.
I think it should be political. The game should be really controversial. That would mean it would be interesting unlike all Farcry games after 3.

@nodima: Interesting. I have that and totally forgot about it. So, that is true. I am wrong about that.

It's cool. I'd probably buy it if it released on Steam or GOG.

It's too bad they cannot release the first 3, but those released on PS3 and so that's not possible without considerable funding since it would require a lot of work to get it to work on a PC architecture because PS3 notoriously had a difficult cell processor to work with which is not the same. They'd probably have to redo most of the core code which would probably require them to just rebuild the game almost entirely. Remasters and ports don't get that kind of funding unless they're gonna see significant returns. It's possible that they'll wait and see how 4 does first and if it does well they'll fund rebuilding the first 3, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. Sony is weird anyway.

It's weird ya'll are arguing about them not releasing the first 3 because "they're too old". That's not really the point. They wouldn't be porting the fourth game because it's newer. They ported all the Spyro games to PC with some remastered stuff. It happens these days. It's just about getting the funding. They wont need that much funding to port the 4th game because it was built for PS4 which has a PC architecture. It's really that simple. The other three would require quite a bit more work and that means more funding would be needed to do it.
(Edit: Oh ya, they did rework the code already. Disregard. I totally forgot they did it. My bad.)