By Sean Tudor on Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 09:19 pm:
Yet another little snippet from Fatbabies.Com
Quote:6/15 Gamespy Goes Subscription
GameSpy checks sanity at door - Does an "insider."
According to fuckedcompany, GameSpy Industries, leader in opinionated geeks playing games, is to turn into a subscription site. Could this mean that the gigantically faceless and terribly dull GameSpot is left to feed us free information?
By Tom Ohle on Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 09:56 pm:
Wouldn't surprise me. The fact that it's coming from FuckedCompany makes me think it's actually true--they're usually on the button.
Seriously, though... I don't see GameSpy going to a full subscription setup. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
By Steve on Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 10:59 pm:
Feh, I have it from "inside" sources this has no merit, which either means this person isn't in the loop or what fuckedcompany.com was talking about was the new registration requirements to download from FilePlanet (which could appear like the first step toward a subscriber model).
And GameSpy is now charging for its SDK or something or other.
By Sean Tudor on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 01:23 am:
The FilePlanet download manager is the best idea I have seen in a while. I wish more download sites would use it.
By Jason_cross (Jason_cross) on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 02:17 am:
I, too, like the download manager. I'd rather have a window pop up and put me "in line" for something, tell me when it's ready to download 20 minutes later, and then give me some decent download speed. It's so much better than just getting a "server busy" message all the time and FINALLY getting through to pull down a paltry 3K/sec.
By Rob Funk (Xaroc) on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 01:03 pm:
I personally hate the download manager. If I can't get it right away I will tell GetRight to grab the file at 3am when there is no one on my cable modem and it is there the next day. As it is now I have to hang around and wait for that stupid window telling me I can get it now. Sucks up CPU resources too so leaving it constantly refreshing in the background is not a realistic option if you want to go do something else.
If the line is short and I am browsing around it works okay. This basically happens only when there is a file that has been out for a while. Of course at that point I will just go grab it from somewhere else. Other than that it is horrible.
-- Xaroc
By Aszurom on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:27 pm:
Well, it gives me a clear indicator that I'm making progress toward getting it... and not banging my head against a list of mirrors that all pop a "server returned extended info" error. Much more satisfying. One breeds patience, the other aggravation.
By Sean Tudor on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 10:00 pm:
But it does allow fair use of the FilePlanet website for all users. There is nothing worse than downloading a file with 1,000 other users at 1Kbps.
Quote:I personally hate the download manager. If I can't get it right away I will tell GetRight to grab the file at 3am when there is no one on my cable modem and it is there the next day.
By Frank Greene (Reeko) on Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:41 pm:
Is it possible that they are using it to cut down on bandwidth costs? Setting people up in a que and handing out files a few at a time would probably cost WAAAAAYYYYY less than letting everyone at it at once. This may be pretty smart.
By Tom Ohle on Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 12:54 am:
It's definitely a cost-cutting measure. I really can't imagine how GSI stays afloat with the costs FilePlanet must incur. It boggles the mind.
By Sean Tudor on Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 07:14 am:
I shudder to think what would happen if FilePlanet closed - where would we get all our files from ?
By Tom Ohle on Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 11:40 am:
Every other mirror that pops up? :)
By Rob Funk (Xaroc) on Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 05:19 pm:
Quote:But it does allow fair use of the FilePlanet website for all users. There is nothing worse than downloading a file with 1,000 other users at 1Kbps.
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Yesterday I downloaded the 70MB "They Hunger 3". I was 470 in line when I got on and that only took 30 minutes. I then downloaded the file at 14Kbps in less than 2 hours. What is fairer than that ?