🚀 go-pugleaf

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.