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World Largest LAN Party Opens

Posted by Zonk on

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"

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  1. Why not just meet on the internet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Why not just meet on the internet? by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 4, Informative
      kind of. part of the attraction is meeting new people or people that you only know by their handle. being surrounded by a crap load of fellow geeks in the flesh can be a great opportunity to meet new people.

      in more than one large LAN, I ran into people that were a friend of a friend of a friend, that I thought were pretty cool and would likely not have met otherwise.

      true, playing games isn't as close as it is in a smaller scale LAN, but in larger LANs, people tend to keep joining the same servers, often with people physically located near them, making it more of a bonus to have more people than a detriment.

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    2. Re:Why not just meet on the internet? by Low2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      While it's true 'one' of the main attractions is gone, there is still a lot of fun to be had.

      I've been to a 620 person lan party (PDX Lan in Portland Oregon) and it was a wonderful time!

      You also end up with a sense of community with the people directly arround you within the first day if your willing to talk to people.

    3. Re:Why not just meet on the internet? by trabisnikof · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

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    4. Re:Why not just meet on the internet? by Pugflop · · Score: 3, Funny

      I dunno, but it's great when you frag someone and hear a "FUCK!" from the otherside of the building. 8)

    5. Re:Why not just meet on the internet? by CodeWanker · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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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  2. Strange... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The two cameras named after female characters are completely slashdotted, yet the other two are fine. Coincidence?

  3. LAN War by Flame0001 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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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  4. The never-ending LAN Party! by Khuffie · · Score: 2

    I think this should become the never-ending LAN party, ala Douglas Adam's never-ending party in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide.

  5. not just a LAN gaming party by spir0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    what I like about these events in Europe is that they are also demo parties, like Assembly in Finland.

    There is some info on Dreamhack's site about the demoscene portion of the party.

    All in all, being stuck on the other end of the planet (I'm in New Zealand), I'm very jealous of the demo sceners and the parties that go on in Europe.

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    1. Re:not just a LAN gaming party by Goosey · · Score: 2

      I agree. I am in the US (Ohio), and there is absolutely no demoscene here. Actually, that is an overstatement, as there is one annual party in Salt Lake City. But for the most part it is non-existent... And in Ohio, TOTALLY non-existent.

      To make matters worse is that when I try to show people some of the amazing demos which I respect and adore so much they often just don't get it.

      "What is the point?"
      "Who would spend so much time doing this for free?"
      "That was weird."
      "You actually like this stuff?"
      "What was with the techno music."

      *sigh*.. Sometimes I feel like I am in a culture less vacuum. Then again, thats not fair either. There is plenty of culture surrounding me... It is just that it primarily has to do with pickup trucks.

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  6. more cams by joelanders · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://81.162.169.103/images/data/cams.html