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PC Baangs In America
VonGuard writes "Ahoy hoy! I've written a new article for the East Bay Express about the rise of the PC Baang in the Northern California Bay Area. While in Korea, Starcraft is still the most popular Baang game, here in the US, Counter-Strike reigns supreme. Are these to be the malt shops and arcades of our time?"
Why not just write "internet cafe" or "net cafe" instead of Baang, which nobody know what mean? later on you could tell us that they are call Baangs in korea.
/. headlines either stupid or impossible to understand?
Why is it that people seem to go out of the way to make
Anyway, I've been playing C/S on net cafe for a couple of years here in Denmark (bi-weekly).
Lately a lot of people has shifted towards Battle Field 1942 though.... could be the next big thing..
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I remember a place like this just off campus, when I was in school. They basically had a LAN, with VR headsets hanging over the chairs. We went in a played Quake and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter for an hour once. Since we were all accustomed to the setups on our own PCs, we all played horribly and decided that the whole idea sucked. I think as long as people have their own game rigs, they won't spend time in these places.
It's the same reason that there's so many "cyber-cafes" in places like NYC. Living space is small with less room for desktops, so people go to a coffee house to use one.
Aside from the fact that that idea is stupid, I think it would kill many cybercafes before they even get started. If your state makes a law that keeps a large percentage of your customers from being customers, how do you survive?
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I think a $50 locking cable kit would be a much better idea.
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You may think letting people bring their comps would be fun, but its prolly not..for either of you. For you, it'd be a constant coming and going, dealing with equiptment walking out the door. Whos was that? Was that really that kids?
And furthermore. People bring their comps to LANparties cuz they last a day, two, three more. Why would someone tear down their comp to bring it to a lanplace just for a couple of hours. I dont disassemble my pool table to bring it to the poolhall. Think of it that way.
Your business should be the renting of the actually lancomputers for play, not the space/location for people to come in and setup their own.
That's California for you. Parenting by legislation. I mean, my god we can't expect the parents to actually PARENT now, can we?
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America is big. America is digitally divided.
These facts preclude cyber cafes from being popular in every community that is not a large metropolis or a very hip compact area.
We have too much land, and we live too far apart. Those who are greatly interested in computers can afford one or a few.
If I could walk out my door or hop on the subway and be in a comfortable Internet cafe in ten minutes, I would consider it. If this cyber cafe offered many attributes over my home setup, I might consider it. However, I live in a heavily-suburban metropolitan area of about 450,000 people. I would have to get in my car and drive twenty minutes from my home to the closest cyber cafe, which offers high usage fees, sophomoric l33t teenagers, and bad grub. There is an Internet cafe very close to my office downtown, but I have a better free connection at work, on which I can use my personally-owned laptop.
With blindingly fast computers becoming dirt cheap and especially with broadband proliferating, Americans have few incentives, from a technological standpoint, to patronize an Internet cafe. Some kids/adults who want to play LAN games might enjoy it, but the best part of playing a lan game is yelling profanity across the hall at your opponent, excepting the low lag. It just requires too much effort for most Americans to get to the cyber cafes, and the only benefit they get is maybe a little camaraderie. Save your money and setup a home LAN.
For some areas, like NYC or any dense urban environment, cyber cafes can be successful. Success requires two things, assuming for the moment that you already have an incredible business design with enough startup capital. First, many people need to live within a ten minute travel time. Second, living space needs to be prohibitively expensive for an average family to have a LAN room. Most of America does not meet those two criteria.
I might be simplifying the situation, but I've participated (as a free network consultant) in two failed Internet cafes, one in outer New Orleans and one in Birmingham, AL. So I hope I'm not totally ignorant.
I struggle with this statement. I don't cheat and never have in cs. I am considered a good player but have played against players who were much better than I.
I hate saying I am doing bad because someone is cheating, but sometimes it really seems like they are cheating.
I have also been accused of cheating, and most times they don't believe me. Frustrating both ways.
I don't play alot, and always from home(married with children), but if I was younger LAN parties would be great, at least so there would be no cheaters!