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Re: GPGNet - An unnecessary parasite

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From: ihatespamandyoumustremov... MuuM...
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:01
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Too long to be a good troll, and what is the point if you're not
posting it to the relevant groups anyway? :V


IN TEH PALECE KNOWEN AS alt.games.starcraft, TEH FAGGORTER
GasPowe...@googlemail.com DUMPED HIS GHEYE SHIET ON MY COMPUTAR
SCREEN!!!!:
>We are all used to dealing with professional gaming companies like
>Blizzard and EA. These corporations are large bureaucracies which
>exhibit a certain level of professionalism in their travels.
>
>Many games out there have multiplayer functionality. They usually use
>their own software to do this and it doesn't contain any extra
>overhead or third party software. Supreme Commander, a game that's
>keeping RTS gamers busy until the release of Starcraft 2, is a game
>that explicitly requires GPGNet for online functionality.
>
>GPGNet has a PHPBB forum, a cafepress t-shirt shop, and about 100 fans
>dedicated to stomping out anyone who dare say anything bad about the
>company.
>
>No matter how loyal, it's interesting to point out how they're not shy
>to admit that GPGNet is the thing that gets in the way of fun in the
>game.
>
>GPGNet also has a chat room which works similar to IRC. It's filled
>with, you guessed it, smug 20 somethings who get their power trips
>behind the computer. People arguing over mispellings, aside from the
>fact that a 5 minute sweep through the forums will yield you a
>thousand typos. Why are people in this thing forced into a chat. I
>don't want to hear these people. I want to game.
>
>The idea of forcing people into a chatroom is old web 1.0 shit.
>Everyone is automatically in, they have to "Op-out" or whatever
>themselves.
>
>But one thing that makes this place special isn't just the lack of
>ingenuity or creativity. It's not even the fact that the software
>doesn't work for over half the people. It's the idea people who
>actually work for the company are assholes who are egotistically
>active in the community.
>
>I didn't pay $50.00 to deal with some egotistical dickhead for a
>failing company with a skull for a signature who doesn't even have the
>balls or professionalism to use his real name. Then theirs the trivial
>face that, well, you know, I'm keeping him fed. And then he goes off
>and acts like an obnoxious asshole.
>
>I paid $50.00 to be able to play how I want, and say what I want,
>without some e-power hungry tard named "Corecommander" or
>"Sonofshagrat" kicking you from some IRC channel. This is why I hate
>the internet nowadays. Even people at companies are anonymous cowards.
>These people are actual employees.
>LOL.
>
>I have a question for you to ponder. Why not drop the unnecessary
>middle man in the next game? Remove that bloated clump of memory leak
>shit and you got yourself something.
>
>EA and Blizzard take care of their own multiplayer network fine. It's
>not rocket science. Aspyr needs to learn that if it wants to succeed
>in the multiplayer gaming era, it will need to trim this parasitic app
>from it's toolkit.
>
>Reality is, GPGNet is a failed idea and probably won't be around in 5
>years. The people who worked for this company will be able to say they
>worked for a failed corporation which was lucky enough to take part in
>a game that temporary held people over til Starcraft 2.
>
>Do the right thing. When Starcraft comes out, buy it, and uninstall
>Supreme Commander from your system. With SupCom2 comes out (it'll be a
>flop because it's been milked), but hypothetically speaking, be sure
>to boycott it if it uses parasite-ware like gpgnet.
>
>God bless Blizzard.
>God bless EA.
>God bless all large gaming companies that can make working software.
>GPGNet employees are unprofessional, egotistical, insulting, and fail.
>GPGNet is Blizzard for the third world.
>GPGNet is failware.
>GPGNet is parasite-ware.
>
>You're first world.
>
>Starcraft 2 coming soon. We'll hold out until then.
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