oh they dropped the price down? amazing. last time i looked it was $30 a month US or something outrageous like that :P
but still, gamespy is just greedy. they started out small, now they're huge and have swallowed a number of companies. you cant tell me that they cant afford the servers without charging money to download the free hosted things :P plus, its not worth it. every mirror sucks. i had access to a personal server at one point and it was no better. i *have* gotten over 300k/sec on a public mirror in the middle of the night. (and even during the day, when holy wars came out i grabbed it around 360). but still. i agree with whatever whoever said, if they ARE making money off the free stuff. theres no way you can deny that, even if its $6.95 a month. the services they offer (which honestly from my standpoint arent that great) can be covered montly by say, 50 people paying that. (i used to admin stuff that was faster;p) look how many people there are on the planet ;p -omega Blackened Interactive http://www.nofadz.com/blackened IRC: irc.gamesnet.net channel: #blackened-interactive Assistant Coder, Underhive (http://www.underhive.com) ----- Original Message ----- From: "_Phantom_" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] what a bloody n00b > The point is, you aint paying for the patches or the mods, you are paying > for the upkeep of the servers they are hosted on and the bandwidth the > servers use, and in doing so yo get a 'thank you' with a personal server. > For $6.95 USD (£5 UKP) per month or $59.99 USD (£43 UKP) a year that's not > really a bad deal, granted it's probably better for us CM users than dialup > however. > > It's time to face the fact that the time of the 'free internet' is all but > gone, because of the costs and the lack of advert money now around, if you > want fast service, ya gonna have to pay for things. > > Incerdently, I belive all the files (part from maybe 2 unpopular ones) I've > download have had 3 main servers and a couple of mirrors for them, thus I've > never seen that problem. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "omega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:17 PM > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] what a bloody n00b > > > > the problem is, most of the time there are only the personal servers and > > *ONE* mirror for most of the files. > > > > im not paying $30 or so to download free things. > > add that ti $30 for ISP, $60 on average per game, plus hardware. > somewhere, > > somebodies getting seriously ripped off. > > paying the cash for a game to me is fine, but as if im going to pay to > > download *FREE* patches, and *FREE* mods.its just completely wrong. > > > > > > -omega > > Blackened Interactive > > http://www.nofadz.com/blackened > > IRC: irc.gamesnet.net channel: #blackened-interactive > > Assistant Coder, Underhive (http://www.underhive.com) > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "_Phantom_" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:10 AM > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] what a bloody n00b > > > > > > > I download at all kinds of times, mostly when the US are up as well, > I've > > > never had to wait longer than 40mins for a file off one of the main > > servers > > > (last one was RtCW multiplayer demo) > > > I dont have the money to pay atm so I dont and use the free system > > > > > > As for charging, tech the are charging u so they can maintain the > system, > > > revnues (sp?) from adverts and the like which companys like this used to > > use > > > to maintain the opertations have all but vanished, if they dont charge > > they > > > will have to close down (hosting + bandwidth charges for something like > > > fileplanet are gonna be huge!!! so after everyone pays their $x, I > forget > > > how much, but I know it's not much, I doubt they are turning a huge > profit > > > as they dont charge per download, just per month/year) > > > > > > If you dont like them hosting your files, email them and tell 'em to > stop, > > > as you are the copyright holder of the work then they have no choice (as > I > > > understand it), however, imho that's just petty.. if I produce something > I > > > want it to reach as wider audiance as I can, if some ppl chose to spend > > some > > > $$$$ to download files quicker, all power to 'em I say. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
