[bf1942] Anyone have a popular non-ranked server?

[Mark J. DeFilippis]

Well,

Our clan ranges from 14 to 52.  Yea, they are rank-whores as well.
But they understand that once they get to a point it just isn't worth it,
and they "have a life".  Yea, perhaps you will continue to get the
"10-15" crowd.  You will also get my clan members working towards
the first few weapons.  But they have made it clear they have no
intent on going for 10000 to get anything, and will play on the non-lag
servers with our other clan members rather than a laggy ranked server.

If they have I.Q.'s above 100, most will figure this out, minus the
10-15y/o category.

I also didn't say their model wasn't working.  I said it sucks,
everyone knows it, will not continue to survive. It is working at
the moment, but it is not well thought out.

Hey... New Coke was popular for a short period of time as well.
Then it crashed.  That guy probably works for EA not too. ;-0

Dr. D

At 04:34 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote:

>Bah.
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>Look at our ranked server.
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>We couldnt get our own CLAN to play on our (unranked)server, even though 
>the servers they were playing on (ranked) were laggy, smacktard full, and 
>un-admind.
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>Our (mature) gaming group, still elected to play on the laggy ones so they 
>could get rank
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>We eventually dropped our un-ranked server, and went to a ranked one.
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>I think their business model is working rather well.
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>From: Mark J. DeFilippis [mailto:defilm at acm.org]
>Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:31 PM
>To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>Subject: Re: [bf1942] Anyone have a popular non-ranked server?
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>Then we simply won't support it.
>
>With some of the upcoming stars of 2006, I don't think
>I will worry much about one game.
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>But it does prove the point that ALL of the marketing
>people from the movie industry that made the DVD mistake
>didn't all go to EA.  It appears they spread out a little more. ;-)
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>I don't have answers, I can just do our part in not perpetuating such
>a system.  Kill it now.  The demographic for FPS'ers is larger than
>just kiddies.  As the population ages, and us folks that grew up with
>ATARI 800's still love to game as much as we did in out teens, we
>won't put our money in.  That is power.
>
>Md
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>At 02:25 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote:
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>Look at Enemy Territory: Quake Wars... it will have a "persistent ranking 
>system".
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>Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
>                                       defilm at ieee.org

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Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
                                       defilm at ieee.org


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