It surely helped. The following values are the downloads of the Windows version with NotEye integration (until today, not including the adom.de and Dropbox mirrors):
ZIP: 243 downloads (around 14,5 GB)
torrent: 153 downloads
The server only sent about 4 GB through it's own torrent client, but that includes all torrent files (Pre 5, Linux, etc.).
So, yes... we saved a lot of server traffic. I'm not sure if it will be enough for a public release. But we'll see.
“It's a cruel and random world, but the ChAoS is all so beautiful.” ― Hiromu Arakawa