Sixblade writes "The world's largest LAN party opend its doors this morning. With more than 6200 places, Dreamhack should be quite fun. Check out the webcams, Arwen, Eowyn, Haldir and Beren"
Why not just meet on the internet?
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Anonymous Coward
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With so many participants, one of the main attractions of a LAN party is gone, the friendly competitive interaction. If #52 and #6101 frag each other how likely is it they will interact much irl at this event?
This event is to a LAN party as the Super Bowl is to a friendly neighborhood backyard football game.
Re:Why not just meet on the internet?
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trabisnikof
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True, but you still have the chance to meet new people. I have gone to several large LANs, and even if you get fragged by people you don't know and never see, you are still having fun with your friends. Plus if you want to know who they are that bad, just ask them in game.
-- Klatu Brata Nicto
Re:Why not just meet on the internet?
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CodeWanker
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I concur. If the players are too far apart to hit each other with empty beer cans, it's no longer a LAN Party. Maybe we've reached the point where old farts like me can talk about Old School LAN Party Creds.
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"Wow. Now THAT'S a lot of angry Indians." - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
I think it's the anonymity of the event that really counts. You could very well recreate a very large scale war with 6k people participating. After all, during war, about how many people are you going to know personally?
If all these computers were hooked up to a central server, and had some extremely modded version of say... Battlefield 1942 running on each computer, imagine the chaos of war that would be happening on each screen! It could be a real-life representation of what the war was like, ignoring the "Let's fly this plane to the enemy base then parachute out" taxi strategy type ideas that float around Battlefield 1942.
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With so many participants, one of the main attractions of a LAN party is gone, the friendly competitive interaction. If #52 and #6101 frag each other how likely is it they will interact much irl at this event?
This event is to a LAN party as the Super Bowl is to a friendly neighborhood backyard football game.
If all these computers were hooked up to a central server, and had some extremely modded version of say... Battlefield 1942 running on each computer, imagine the chaos of war that would be happening on each screen! It could be a real-life representation of what the war was like, ignoring the "Let's fly this plane to the enemy base then parachute out" taxi strategy type ideas that float around Battlefield 1942.
Slashdot, the only place where intellectuals can act like idiots... and still sound intellectual.