The usual spots for me...
(and sorry about this)
www.microsoft.com
www.riaa.com
www.linuxsucks.com
www.freeporn.com/animals/farm/horses_and_pigs/inde x.html
"Imagine if Microsoft was legally liable and a $2 billion suit was filed."
Microsoft's annual "administration" or legal budget is over $2 billion, they would settle and save some time.
First of all, I've been very vocal about the bnetd issues in Blizzard's Warcraft 3 beta forum. Unfotunatly anything said in support of bnetd or against Blizzard was promptly deleted. Last night I was permenently banned from the forum.
Anyway, the comment I have is that Blizzard public betas are going to have to end. At the moment I type this there are 8004 users in 3255 games on 28 public servers on bnetd. And that's just public servers. Now I intend to buy Warcraft 3 when it comes out, but a lot of people are saying that they won't, because they can just get it for free. Someone posted a good comment in the Warcraft 3 forum last night (promply deleted of course), "If Blizzard dosn't want people pirating Warcraft 3, why do they release the game to 5000 random people, 4 months before its going to come out and then proceed to release public patches?" This is a good point and it brings me to mine, Blizzard will have to end its public betas. It is very hard for most people to resist a nearly complete version of a game they have wanted for years 4 months early and free. A lot of people are going to be pirating this game (check out #warcraft 3 on IRC), and it will get worse with each successive game they release. I have supported public betas in the past, they are great for balance issues and bug finding, but I believe that if they continue, it could really start to hurt profits. Now I'm sure some of you are saying, "Well then people will just pirate the game when it comes out", and they will, but when its a beta they have no choice, they can't buy it if they want to, and this may push a lot of casual computer users over the edge, into the world of piracy. I'm sorry Blizzard but this is the future and you can't stop it, taking down bnetd was fine, but its still be distributed quite a lot over peer to peer programs and mirrors, you are going to have to do more internal testing and end the public betas.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is actually selling Karma now?
That's it, I give up. I'll be sticking to CNN.com from now on.
The usual spots for me...e x.html
(and sorry about this)
www.microsoft.com
www.riaa.com
www.linuxsucks.com
www.freeporn.com/animals/farm/horses_and_pigs/ind
"Imagine if Microsoft was legally liable and a $2 billion suit was filed." Microsoft's annual "administration" or legal budget is over $2 billion, they would settle and save some time.
First of all, I've been very vocal about the bnetd issues in Blizzard's Warcraft 3 beta forum. Unfotunatly anything said in support of bnetd or against Blizzard was promptly deleted. Last night I was permenently banned from the forum.
Anyway, the comment I have is that Blizzard public betas are going to have to end. At the moment I type this there are 8004 users in 3255 games on 28 public servers on bnetd. And that's just public servers. Now I intend to buy Warcraft 3 when it comes out, but a lot of people are saying that they won't, because they can just get it for free. Someone posted a good comment in the Warcraft 3 forum last night (promply deleted of course), "If Blizzard dosn't want people pirating Warcraft 3, why do they release the game to 5000 random people, 4 months before its going to come out and then proceed to release public patches?" This is a good point and it brings me to mine, Blizzard will have to end its public betas. It is very hard for most people to resist a nearly complete version of a game they have wanted for years 4 months early and free. A lot of people are going to be pirating this game (check out #warcraft 3 on IRC), and it will get worse with each successive game they release. I have supported public betas in the past, they are great for balance issues and bug finding, but I believe that if they continue, it could really start to hurt profits. Now I'm sure some of you are saying, "Well then people will just pirate the game when it comes out", and they will, but when its a beta they have no choice, they can't buy it if they want to, and this may push a lot of casual computer users over the edge, into the world of piracy. I'm sorry Blizzard but this is the future and you can't stop it, taking down bnetd was fine, but its still be distributed quite a lot over peer to peer programs and mirrors, you are going to have to do more internal testing and end the public betas.
I don't know of a single positive thing that can be said about mosquitoes, really.
"Mosquito bites are fun to scrath."
- Ned Flanders