AW: [cod] boycott / protest

[Ian mu]

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:
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> Hi
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stalvi Sent: 28 November 2005 09:53
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Nov 27, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Robert Mount wrote:
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> > I think a boycott will work if all those who boycott (myself included,
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> > five COD2 servers) eventually shut down their servers for good.  Which
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> > 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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