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<font size=3>At 05:11 AM 8/17/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>With their ranked server program,
EA effectively created a monopoly. With all the good and bad that comes
from it. Never before I have seen a publisher actively removing servers
from a serverlist and trying to police the way in which people use the
options provided by the server. Back when BF2 still was in development I
asked Andreas F. what he would do to address security in their servers,
as everyone could write their own server side mod and change things. I
never received an answer :-( Since quake we are used to more or less
"free" gaming servers for FPS. I'm still not sure where the new
direction of EA will lead to and if it will be followed for more games we
will have to wait and see. </font></blockquote><br><br>
No, I don't think this model will be the model of choice. Look at
all the pissed off<br>
people. Ranked admins don't appear to be pulling in the dough
either!<br><br>
I think the model will die, as I believe most other companies<br>
outside of EA has hired from above where EA hires their marketing<br>
people, which is clearly the selection at the bottom of the
tank.<br><br>
They lack vision and Insight IMHO. I suspect they are the
people<br>
the large motion picture companies fired when they realized that<br>
DVD distribution was going to be a boon to their industry, not the<br>
death they predicted. Likely SAT's of under 700, and they all
have<br>
MBA's. Yup, sounds like the credentials. ;-))<br><br>
Dr. D<br><br>
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Mark J.
DeFilippis
defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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