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Well,<br><br>
Our clan ranges from 14 to 52. Yea, they are rank-whores as
well.<br>
But they understand that once they get to a point it just isn't worth
it,<br>
and they "have a life". Yea, perhaps you will continue to
get the<br>
"10-15" crowd. You will also get my clan members working
towards<br>
the first few weapons. But they have made it clear they have
no<br>
intent on going for 10000 to get anything, and will play on the
non-lag<br>
servers with our other clan members rather than a laggy ranked
server.<br><br>
If they have I.Q.'s above 100, most will figure this out, minus the<br>
10-15y/o category.<br><br>
I also didn't say their model wasn't working. I said it sucks,
<br>
everyone knows it, will not continue to survive. It is working at<br>
the moment, but it is not well thought out.<br><br>
Hey... New Coke was popular for a short period of time as well.<br>
Then it crashed. That guy probably works for EA not too.
;-0<br><br>
Dr. D <br><br>
At 04:34 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote:<br><br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Bah.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Look at our ranked
server.<br><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">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.<br>
</font><font size=3><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Our (mature) gaming
group, still elected to play on the laggy ones so they could get
rank<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">We eventually dropped
our un-ranked server, and went to a ranked one.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">I think their business
model is working rather well.<br>
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<font face="tahoma" size=2><b>From:</b> Mark J. DeFilippis
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 22, 2005 12:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> bf1942@icculus.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [bf1942] Anyone have a popular non-ranked
server?<br>
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Then we simply won't support it.<br><br>
With some of the upcoming stars of 2006, I don't think<br>
I will worry much about one game.<br><br>
But it does prove the point that ALL of the marketing<br>
people from the movie industry that made the DVD mistake<br>
didn't all go to EA. It appears they spread out a little more.
;-)<br><br>
I don't have answers, I can just do our part in not perpetuating
such<br>
a system. Kill it now. The demographic for FPS'ers is larger
than<br>
just kiddies. As the population ages, and us folks that grew up
with<br>
ATARI 800's still love to game as much as we did in out teens, we<br>
won't put our money in. That is power.<br><br>
Md<br><br>
At 02:25 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote:<br><br>
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Look at Enemy Territory: Quake Wars... it will have a "persistent
ranking system".<br>
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