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• • General: NCsoft Tackles Illegal Servers

  • This is more hilarious than a US political debate ROFLMFAO!

    Anyone who doesn't know the difference between copyright infringement & stealing, doesn't have the intelligence (nor moral fibre) to be in this discussion, period, so feel free to abstain, mkay? :)

    And anyone who thinks current IP laws are anything but a mockery of what was intended or are somehow decent & right, is obviously just another sponge in one of the cartel links. All hail the Gods of Capitalism!

    Someone using someone else's code for personal use & NOT profit (unlike these Internet cafes) is clearly not in the same pig sty. Not to mention, a lot of the peeps here have PAID for the game, PAID for many months/years of sub & now you would begrudge them playing on their own server (which costs the mmo dev exactly ZERO!) for their own reasons/setup/preferred style!? Are you guys like all NC flunkies or something LOL? NC has a right to prevent loss of profit, sure. Let them prove said loss against anyone using their code for personal, non-profit use only. Prove to me I would've bought your game otherwise & we can start a rational discourse. Let's not even get into free advertising, word of mouth & how marketing forces work around freeware & open source products to actually generate MORE total revenue!

    In any case, this is about nothing but greed & the almighty dollar. To quote the good book correctly for a change: "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil". Case in point: current IP laws since the 1950s.

     

    Anyone else calls me a thief or cheap & I'll email them a fiver. Let's see who's cheap now! :)

    Viva La Revolucion!!!

  • Posted: 4/11/08 1:08 AM
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• • General: NCsoft Tackles Illegal Servers

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    Originally posted by ZeroKORE
    
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    The problem is at the source, the heart, the core. Not the ones who branch out looking for a good quality experience of "fun". God forbid if the games stop becoming enjoyable, so we go out and produce our own answers because the companies can't supply the demands of the players. Supply and demand my friends,  supply and demand.

     

    Well said Zero. There are other reasons a person might want to play on or even install a personal server, so his game is available for years to come. Will I be able to play GW1 or CoH or LOTRO or WoW in 10 years time, as I know I will D2 on a LAN, for example...?

    What have companies like Blizzard  given us/you for the billions of dollars of profit? More servers (aka online slot machines lol!) & one piddly expansion in 4 years? I mean, hullo, McFly???

    And I'm sick & tired of the IP debates. IP laws are fundamentally flawed, dated & run by pure greed. The Internet is seeing a diametric shift in how musos & other independents self-publish. Adapt or die, like any other business. You can't own an idea. Your founding fathers would probably turn over in their graves if they saw what patent laws & copyrights have amounted to. Most movies only make money for the producers in the first 6 weeks at the box office. Everything else is middle-men & cartels spreading their greedy fingers around, with licenses for anything & everything they didn't create, nor should they own or profit from. Whatever happened to making movies/music/games/art for the love of it? I guess it went the same place as quality, originality & innovative design *sigh*.

    As far as games go, online delivery mechanisms such as Steam is finally seeing half-price games instead of the US$40-50 price tag (up to $100 in Aus for some games!) we've seen for far too many years. I buy my fair share of games, but I always try b4 I buy. I'm not giving a dev/publisher $70-90 for something I may only fiddle with for a couple hours b4 I realise it's pants. And demos don't cut it - they're pre-alpha usually & never a good indication of release gameplay. Most of my purchases these days are indy or online titles for this reason.

    And then God said: "Let there be file sharing!".

    </rant>

     

  • Posted: 4/10/08 7:46 PM
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• • General: NCsoft Tackles Illegal Servers

  • For reference, WoW just netted 1.2 *billion* last year.

    How many yachts can you water-ski behind? When is enough enough...?

    NCsoft: don't go the way of the movie/music dinosaur cartels - offer value adds that make ppl want to pay for your services. Anything else is pure greed. Suing your own customers - never good for business, whichever way you slice the cake. Here endeth the lesson.

  • Posted: 4/10/08 3:50 PM
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