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Game Sites Rebel Over Exclusive Demos
Thanks to Shacknews for their open letter regarding Activision's Call Of Duty demo for PC, which will apparently be initially exclusive (with some file-based protection?) to GameSpy's FilePlanet subscribers. The letter announces that "...the following websites will not be carrying the Call of Duty playable demo, even after its exclusivity is over", and includes notable signatories such as Blue's News and Shacknews themselves. The appeal continues: "The above-listed websites hope to show Activision that the enthusiast industry is strongly opposed to the idea of exclusive demo releases. Feedback from our users shows that gamers hate to be forced through a single point of congestion if they want a demo right away... Deals like this hurt the industry much more than they could possibly enhance a single relationship." Update: 08/29 06:25 GMT by S : Activision have bowed to pressure, and will make the demo available everywhere, non-exclusively, from Friday night.
Gamespy really is a pain in the ass.
The best game-browser I know, by far, is The All-Seeing Eye.
It works fast, simple, the program doesn't lock-up when performing a search, useful filters, auto-updates.....
And that's only in the FREE version of the program. The registered version adds some more features.
This is one piece of software I can really say is good.
^_^
If it was possible to have multiple trackers, one on each d/l site, all serving the same file, then downloading these files would be much easier.
.torrent-files, each with its own tracker.
Just have some script redirect users to different
Upcoming plans call for the Bittorrent protocol to support multiple trackers per torrent, adding further redundancy.