I don't know this for a fact, but most games will not let a game running bots/mods be a 'ranked' server therefore it would not contribute to the stats. Some games even require cheats to be on to run bots (TF2 is this way I believe) and that will also makes the server unranked. Also ranked servers in this game are Punk Buster enabled, so this eliminates some, dare I say most of these sorts of issues.
I play Eve Online and I do not buy or play other games. I used to buy 2-4 new games a month. That number is now 0. This article should be expanded to all MMORPGs. WoW for some reason brings up all these questions...
Seems to me that the.xxx would make it trivial for parents to black those types of sites. I can't for the life of me see why it's a problem. Let the people who want to view p0rn view it, and those who don't block *.xxx every one is happy now...
OMG news flash you can buy in game money online for real money! Ah....yeah this has been availabe for other MMORPG long before WoW. EQ, Eve Online, etc... I have included some examples
http://www.mysupersale.com/http://www.ige.com/
I suppose it's all the evil humans who are causing the global warming too. My only question to the scientest who belive in human caused global warming; When we came out of the ice age was that human cause global warming?
It seems your all missing some very important points.
The fact that linux will not only take fewer admins per user, but also that linux will run on cheaper computers better and support more users per server.
This is a very big factor in cost. If you can avoid buying a new server for the next X number of users you get or even just get more power for the current users your cost savings is greater than the cost it takes to hire the expensive admins.
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I don't know this for a fact, but most games will not let a game running bots/mods be a 'ranked' server therefore it would not contribute to the stats. Some games even require cheats to be on to run bots (TF2 is this way I believe) and that will also makes the server unranked. Also ranked servers in this game are Punk Buster enabled, so this eliminates some, dare I say most of these sorts of issues.
I play Eve Online and I do not buy or play other games. I used to buy 2-4 new games a month. That number is now 0. This article should be expanded to all MMORPGs. WoW for some reason brings up all these questions...
Seems to me that the .xxx would make it trivial for parents to black those types of sites. I can't for the life of me see why it's a problem. Let the people who want to view p0rn view it, and those who don't block *.xxx every one is happy now...
OMG news flash you can buy in game money online for real money! Ah....yeah this has been availabe for other MMORPG long before WoW. EQ, Eve Online, etc... I have included some examples http://www.mysupersale.com/ http://www.ige.com/
I suppose it's all the evil humans who are causing the global warming too. My only question to the scientest who belive in human caused global warming; When we came out of the ice age was that human cause global warming?
At least someone has had the presence of mind to understand the hard job the SysAdmin's have! ~TonFTP
It seems your all missing some very important points. The fact that linux will not only take fewer admins per user, but also that linux will run on cheaper computers better and support more users per server. This is a very big factor in cost. If you can avoid buying a new server for the next X number of users you get or even just get more power for the current users your cost savings is greater than the cost it takes to hire the expensive admins.