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

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:08 AM -0500 Mike Swain 
<mjswain at charter.net> wrote:

> My biggest concern is that other game companies will start moving in this
> direction if  they see EA having success which could be the beginning of
> the end for all you game hosting companies  :(
>
> Those of you who are now participating in EA's ranked server program may
> be reaping  some short term benefits but I think you are failing to see
> the bigger picture.

An interesting parallel to Microsoft's relationship to hardware vendors. MS 
has long had an agreement that's essentially "if you want our OS to run on 
your hardware, you have to exclude our competitors". I wonder how long it 
will be before we see something like that come out of EA?