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As is the risk of over subscription. However, most game services tend to schedule their downloads in the middle of the night, and video stream is very "bursty", and downloads chunks of data every few seconds.

Also, with people/services moving to AV1 encoding, we're already seeing improvements in efficiencies in regards to bandwidth.

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> However, most game services tend to schedule their downloads in the middle of the night

Except that usually doesn't matter because almost all game updates are released slight before prime time (or on prime time) so players can enjoy it when they get home! (I guess this only applies to multiplayer games, but that's a MAJOR part of the industry nowadays).

I would guess about 10% of an ISPs customers are gamers. Maybe lower. Again game updates are not that big, compared to your connection, so most of the day your connection is idle

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