AW: [cod] boycott / protest

[James Landi]

I think everyone is missing the point.  It's getting the attention of the
larger media sites, not just the CoD community sites and it's already
starting to gain a lot of momentum.

 

If IW/ACT doesn't have any type of acceptable official announcement this
week then It's already too late for most of us who pay the extra $$ to keep
our servers up and running.  ACT/IW forget how much $$ each month we spend
on servers and how much time on top of that we need to spend baby sitting it
because of the current state of the MP side of the game.

 

Come to think of it, when's the last time you seen an official COD server
from Activision?  If memory serves me correct, I have never seen any CoDx
servers from them....

 

-Jim 

Rudedog

FPSadmin.com

 

 

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From: Ian mu [mailto:mu.llamas at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:53 AM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: AW: [cod] boycott / protest

 

I don't think the boycott is going to achieve too much really, will be too
many alternatives to play on, although I agree with it in principle.
Personally I'd rather start off with keeping the servers full, and maybe get
all the servers to have the same title, something with reference to COD2, to
highlight the issue ("Activision Protest - URL" or similar at the start).
That way if lots of full servers have that in their title, and people see it
in game browsers, I think it would actually reach a lot more of the players
so to speak. 

On 11/28/05, leoncoin <leoncoin at btopenworld.com> wrote: 



Hi

People I don't wana be the one to point this out but were going in
circles. I will close my 4 servers down on the boycott, because I will 
try anything, anything to remove this pain in the ass and get some kind
of patch out there. However I run a Linux server so I know that even if
they were to release a patch I would have to wait a month for Linux 
version. Lol. I digress ... This boycott is a good idea... But its
targeting the wrong people. Its targeting the gamers not IW, I doubt
they would care 2 ticks what we did... It not guna effect them.

What we have to understand is that gamers still create game ... They do 
... But as soon as done they hand their works over to money men... And
money men are just that ... Only interested in the cash.. AC costs more
money .. So they cant have it!

We need to work together, not against our gamers. I think it might be an 
idea to draw up a list of international banned COD2 gamers and add them
to your server. If we all work together and pool this info it wouldn't
stop the cheating... But it would certainly slow it down.

M

-----Original Message-----
From: stalvi Sent: 28 November 2005 09:53

I agree with this, but I really doubt a single day boycott would do
much.  A long term boycott might, but it would have to be more than a 
few hundred servers out of the thousands.

I would also guess that people like IW/ACV have been looking at the
World of Warcraft online business model and wondered if they could do
something like that to make serious money.  A boycott might be just 
what the business execs need to make that kind of a decision.  Yeah
yeah, blowing smoke, but it could be on the burner.



On Nov 27, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Robert Mount wrote:

> I think a boycott will work if all those who boycott (myself included, 

> five COD2 servers) eventually shut down their servers for good.  Which

> will be the effect if nothing comes from ATV/IW.
>
> I have to assume that MP drives a portion of their sales, yes, most 
> people have the game already.  But if all those servers are shutdown
> there's no place to play.  People will remember that when the
> expansion pack comes out.
>
> BTW, well said Jay!
>
> --Rob
>
>

 

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