<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Tyson,<div><br></div><div>If you think that being a 'trusted' provider is entirely dictated by the size of the GSP, platform, staff, community following etc- I think you are wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>There are a few 'big potatoes' that have 'missed out' on hosting BFBC2, and at least one 'small potato' that is hosting the betas right now.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Oliver Warburton</div><div>Managing Director</div><div>INX-Network LTD</div><div><br></div><div>INX-Gaming.com</div><div><a href="http://www.inx-gaming.com">www.inx-gaming.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Become a fan of INX on Facebook!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/INX-Gaming/11051264033">http://www.facebook.com/pages/INX-Gaming/11051264033</a></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 8 Feb 2010, at 14:49, Tyson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">It was a best seller on Console. It was a bomb on PC.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Of the 10 billion dollars worth they sold, only 3% of that was PC. A lousy 3 million dollars is the reason they will exclude PC on the next version altogether. They knew this would happen that’s why they did what they did. Now they can cut us out of the COD franchise and focus on the locked in time hardware of consoles that are easier to program for because they are all the same hardware. And increase the cost of DLC for them at the same time. PC will in my opinion not see another COD game.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">EA/Dice will continue the route of charging GSP a license fee for every sold slot on all new games driving the price higher for Ranked and Unranked servers. They started it with BF2142 and are continuing it with BFBC2. That’s why there are only 20+/- GSP’s worldwide for BFBC2.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">And the little Guys that frequent this list the most are locked out because they are small potatoes compared to those GSP’s with Beta servers up right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Tyson<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>John Kennington [<a href="mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, February 08, 2010 7:23 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Call of Duty server admin list.<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cod] Call of Duty 7<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; ">I seriously doubt that IW/ATVI will shift back to dedicated servers. What do they care? They can charge what they want and force PC users to purchase content. Although CoDMW2 is a best seller, it has rapidly become very boring. They really don't care about "modding" or "supporting the community." Why should they? It costs them money. Yeah, we can all weep and cry about it, but they know that the console crowd will support them.<br><br>John<o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Midnight <<a href="mailto:midowns@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">midowns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Actually MS is starting to dominate the enterprise with the SharePoint platform, google docs so far is a non-starter.<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br><br>Caleb Stephens wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "> microsoft is already dying a slow death from the google docs transformation, xbox is next.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">_______________________________________________<br>cod mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cod@icculus.org</a><br><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a><o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br><br clear="all"><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>______________________________<br>A snappy new signature that shows how knowledgeable I am.<o:p></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">No virus found in this incoming message.<br>Checked by AVG -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.avg.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2674 - Release Date: 02/07/10 12:35:00</span><o:p></o:p></p></div>_______________________________________________<br>cod mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cod@icculus.org</a><br><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>