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BZFlag goes Platinum

Posted by Zonk on from the you-don't-see-nearly-enough-tank-games-anymore dept.

morrison writes "A little over four years after moving to SourceForge at a current rate of several hundred downloads every day, BZFlag has finally "gone platinum". With over 1,000,000 SourceForge downloads, BZFlag looks to be the third game (following Tux Racer and StepMania) to go 'sf platinum'. While this doesn't include the many tens of thousands distributed prior to the project's migration to sf.net during the SGI days, it's a momentous occasion for open source gaming regardless."

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  1. Momentous? by schild · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is this momentous? It's a free game. It's small. People play it at work. If it generated any sort of income for the creators, it would be momentous for them. But for the whole open source movement? Please. The only thing the top downloads shows is that people would rather pirate good windows games than bother downloading free mediocre games.

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    1. Re:Momentous? by pronobozo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "If it generated any sort of income for the creators, it would be momentous for them."


      If I had created anything that was downloaded a million times I'd sure be proud and I'd surley remember it forever.


      Takes a lot to get a million downloads of anything.


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  2. Gameplay? by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I sure hope the gameplay is good, cause the graphics look like they date from the 80s Era. Sure, graphics ain't everything and its a major achievement for the open source gaming community... but couldn't they hire an Open-GL guy / artist? 6 polygons trees... and the tanks themselves look like LEGO blocks.

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  3. OSS builds your CV by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it generated any sort of income for the creators, it would be momentous for them.

    It's a big resume booster for the maintainers.

  4. Re:Gameplay rocks! by LeiGong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't this what people with ugly girlfriends tell themselves to make themselves feel better? "Sure the hot chicks are hot and look great, but they re all dumb I'll get bored with them. On the other hand my ugly girlfriend has a personality and I won't get bored with her." Nevermind the fact that there are plenty of great looking games/women that can look amazing but are also fun to play with. Blanket generalizations like this are pretty ignorant.