Topic: BOYCOTT GAMESPY (Read 9491 times)

DONOTDELETE · « **Reply #40 on:** February 13, 2003, 05:29:25 pm »

I have had my troubles with gamespy in the past,
and avoid FilePlanet like the plauge (get SFC patches
from http://www.sfcx.org/ or http://www.xenocorp.net/ ).
I waited four hours once to download a Roger Wilco client
(848KB) only to be disconnected - all the while it pushed
dozens of megabytes of advertising at me...
(I now offer the RW client for download on my website...

)

But before judging them too harshly check this out:
peerchat.gamespy.com is acting up
I have been in communication with gamespy's
Developer Relations Manager throughout the day
and their chat server seems to have stabilised.
<crosses fingers>

Note that we rely on gamespy for Dynaverse user authentication
and Roger Wilco voice communication.

Also note that all this is free (fileplanet excepted).
They could require registration...
ugh... pay to play... <shudder>

Azrael · « **Reply #41 on:** February 13, 2003, 06:15:37 pm »

What?

You pay money to download demos and patches?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Oh.

Ow...

Oh, stop... please....

You are joking right?

What do they say about a fool and his money?

Hey, you might be rich though. I mean, really rich.

Sheesh.

Az

Blitzkrieg · « **Reply #42 on:** February 13, 2003, 06:43:55 pm »

lol you dont mean me right, cause I dont pay obviously, did I miss somthing though? Really is late and Im too drunk

FireSoul · « **Reply #43 on:** February 13, 2003, 06:47:57 pm »

Add my site to the list of places you can get patches from:

http://klingon.stasis.ca/
.. or more specifically..
http://klingon.stasis.ca/sources_and_utils/

-- Luc

Blitzkrieg · « **Reply #44 on:** February 13, 2003, 06:58:54 pm »

Yeah but where is the patch for SFC3?

j/k lol

Akhilles · « **Reply #45 on:** February 13, 2003, 08:45:50 pm »

Paying for a demo ... that's like paying to test drive a car. Or paying an entrance fee so I can walk around the mall...

FPF_TraceyG · « **Reply #46 on:** February 13, 2003, 09:46:43 pm »

We live in the land of the Ferengi, ladies and gentlemen. The promise of capitalism and 'free' trade. Market economics and the laws of supply and demand at work. Everything has a price and can be 'freely' traded in a 'freely' competitive environment. Competition spurs on growth and development. And the currency for the trade is money of course!
The greater a consumer is willing to pay for an item, the higher its demand, the higher the price will be.

Its why this planet produces enough food in total to feed itself over completely 3 times, and yet, one-third of the entire world's population is starving to death.

It's why 90% of the world's resources are controlled by 2% of it's population.

It's why there must be poor people, in order for rich people to exist.

It's why a first time offence on aggravated assault will get you a 6-month behaviour bond and a slap over the wrist, but credit card fraud will give you a jail term.

It's why no matter how much money you plug into social welfare, there will always be poverty and the ever widening gap between the 'have's and the 'have-nots'.

Ah yes, you can buy absolutely anything and everything is 'freely' available in a corporatised, privitised, capitalised world. Food, medical and health services, education, shelter, even your pet Mirak can have the best of living standards offered to him/her. Oh, just one teeny weeny small thing, so long as you can pay for it.

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #47 on:** February 13, 2003, 11:30:58 pm »

You can get to fileplanet through starfleet universe and use there link and bypass the line

Same DL, same place, no waiting. They also have a couple of mirrors up, just in case.

http://www.strategyplanet.com/sfc/patches_sfcop.shtml

Bob Graham · « **Reply #48 on:** February 13, 2003, 11:58:52 pm »

Quote:

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wait the 90 minutes on the free servers

Actully if you subscribe to GSA, by paying $20 then you get free immediate game patches. So stop complaining and give out $20.

God i hate everybody like you who comlain about things like this, just $20 and you can be happily downlaoding all the patches you want!

Not "immediate" you will still have the d/l time, not to mention that only covers patches, which should be free anyway. And its no longer $20 for life, they changed it, I havent looked at the new deal,but Im sure it sucks.

Blitzkrieg · « **Reply #49 on:** February 14, 2003, 04:21:51 am »

Aye the new deal is $20/annum LOL I was told about this on the very last day they had the "for life registrations" and got mine then with an hour to go! Ok surely I have better things to do on V day, right? Last post

DONOTDELETE · « **Reply #51 on:** February 14, 2003, 06:59:13 am »

Enough, Azrael,

If you are going to insult somebody,
at least have the guts to do it explicitly.

When was the last time you made a
positive post?

I am still praying for you. I'm sure there's
a nice person in there somewhere..

Dash Jones · « **Reply #52 on:** February 14, 2003, 08:40:01 am »

I have noticed as of late the Fileplanet's servers will not allow me to d/l a complete download in the daytime, and are slower than heck. It's gotten to the point that I have gone looking to other places for my demo's and patches...since it's insane. I am using cable and still have a pitiful d/l rate (it sinks down under 50 kb/sec, which kind of defeats the reason I'm for higherspeed connections, no matter what time it is, whilst if I go elsewhere, I get respectful rates. I think something may be up with gamespy recently, as they used to, just a few weeks ago, had fast lines for download, but now, it seems their fast downloads have gone kaput overall, and I don't know why...which can be excessively frustrating.

During the day, not only do I get slow d/l's, but as the topic starter seems to have experienced, 3/4 of the time I get a d/l freeze halfway through, in which I am getting nothing from Fileplanet. Typically this only applies to something over 100 MB, so I still can get smaller items, but it is rather annoying to wait to connect and then not even be able to finish the d/l. Luckily I've found around 3 other sites with similar stuff as Fileplanet which don't suffer these problems currently. Had to find them...out of desperation.

ragamer · « **Reply #53 on:** February 14, 2003, 08:50:52 am »

LOL the better way of boycott something on the internet is not using it...

The older could remember How Gamespy and even Fileplanet started... Now they are turning into Big Money-making
thingies. I'm not against earning money in the internet but I strongly reject those morons that want to have money
for other's work... I don't care about demos and things like that... but patches, specially for those games that are
IMPOSIBLE to play 5 minutes in a row in their initial release, having to pay to FIX a PRODUCT that you have paid for
is just something that only M$ dare to even propose...

I mean if I buy a NEW car and as soon I try to drive it, it brakes... Then I have a WARRANTY so the repairs needed to
have WHAT I PAID FOR doesn't cost me a cent... period. Computer users during this years of M$ dominance have relaxed
their expectatives on NEW product quality...

If you don't complain (or act against it) NOBODY will ever do anything for you.

Subspace · « **Reply #54 on:** February 14, 2003, 08:53:07 am »

ive always had good luck from file planet ,, after the first waiting period ,, I have always got a 300 350 K transfer rate,,

I Downloaded Earth & Beyond from them couple weeks ago 1.2 gig in 40 minutes .... I will try & DL some large demo tonight & see ...

I registerd with GSA a few years ago & after you do you dont have to wait to download a patch just demos

before i get flamed for being stupid & registering GS when i did it it was only 15 bucks & for life ... now its 20 i think

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #56 on:** February 14, 2003, 08:56:44 am »

Yeah, it's now $20 but that's only for a year. No more lifetime subscriptions.

News:

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