There are still quite a few games out there that can be easily played on a 28.8 connection.
At one point my housemates and I had a LAN for the house with one Linux box that connected to our ISP 24 hours a day. You could easily play a game of Everquest over the shared connection, and rarely did Everquest use more than half of the available bandwidth.
Game developers that keep the modem community in mind when developing games stand to earn a lot more money. Especially when you consider that next gen console systems will either come with a modem or have one available for seperate purchase.
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Actually, the people pestering you just act like they are 12. In fact, they could be my college roommates. I'll try to get them to stop.
People over the internet are rude, abnoxious, childish and otherwise idiotic because they have almost complete anonymity (sp?). With this, most people lose all their inhibitions (and unfortunately, also their tact) and become wild sex-crazed demons. It is almost like some crazy type of role-playing.
Which is why the internet and gaming are so addictive. While movies allow you to imagine being somebody else, the internet and games allow you to be somebody else.
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There are still quite a few games out there that can be easily played on a 28.8 connection. At one point my housemates and I had a LAN for the house with one Linux box that connected to our ISP 24 hours a day. You could easily play a game of Everquest over the shared connection, and rarely did Everquest use more than half of the available bandwidth. Game developers that keep the modem community in mind when developing games stand to earn a lot more money. Especially when you consider that next gen console systems will either come with a modem or have one available for seperate purchase.
Actually, the people pestering you just act like they are 12. In fact, they could be my college roommates. I'll try to get them to stop. People over the internet are rude, abnoxious, childish and otherwise idiotic because they have almost complete anonymity (sp?). With this, most people lose all their inhibitions (and unfortunately, also their tact) and become wild sex-crazed demons. It is almost like some crazy type of role-playing. Which is why the internet and gaming are so addictive. While movies allow you to imagine being somebody else, the internet and games allow you to be somebody else.
Wow! Open source is really catching on.