how's the game itself? Worth all the bitching? Somebody out there has to have actually gotten to play it by now.

Nothing to write home about.

This comment was edited on Jun 9, 17:16.

You guys suck ass. Bitching about fileplanet. Maybe if you go back to sucking on your mommies tittie you'll get something for nothing. Untill then wny don't you shut your pie holes?

Experiencing the same problems as you, rock climber. Nice job Techland; You're the first company to pull this off on my computer.

I really just don't understand how taking offered donations is viewed negatively, yet working for free is an accepted practive.

Realizing this is not (exactly) what you said; saying this in general,
Ray

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First of all I didn't refer to them as nerds. It was mainly directed at less than intelligent investors who saw something new to pour money into. And yes, the web back the in the early to mid 90's could get away with being free because there was a hell of a lot less stress and pressure on it. Back then things like the University could pick up the bandwidth costs because it wasn't as much, due to less people. That just isn't feasible these days the majority of the time.

This is the net of 2003. Since around 1999 the net has changed, and it's not going back. Being an old timer, and sitting around and bitching at it is not going to change things. And I hardly see having a paypal button constitutes begging. It's more like a tip jar if you want to compare it to anything.

yea the net was free way back when there were just barley 2-3 million people that used it.. now that theres damn near 40 to 50 million users and climbing.. to those who keep bitching about it use to be free get the fook over it. hell i got a free sample of food the other day outside of my local kroger doesnt mean that everything in the building is free also! (but it is if you grow it yourself! :P)you guys keep remembering the old days when the internet was still in experimental stages and there were no major sites except for fansites hosted by people like gamespy yet they have thrived and survived on the net where most have failed. i challenge the complainers to find any other site that offers the quality and quantity of gaming services that gamespy does.

Half Elf Wrote:
Which is why I still ask Blue to offer some sort of paypal option on this website.

If I ever see Blue resort to such an obviously lame tactic to generate a second source of income for himself, then he will have lost both my appreciation for what he has done with this site, and my respect. Granted, he more then likely does not care, but I felt it should be mentioned.

I have been coming here for five years now, and love the fact that this site has stayed roughly the same. There are no annoying pop-ups, no "Subscriber only" areas, and no heavily-animated front page that takes five years to download because of the hundreds of .gifs and .jpgs attached to it.

As for Paypal, I think anyone asking for handouts online is either an unemployed net-addicted beggar looking for some cash to feed his McDonalds addiction, or a clueless newbie who joined the net after 95 and who foolishly thinks the internet is a place to make money.

Someone below mentioned that the internet was never free, that websites were always run by, quote, "Dumb rich nerds" who thought they could make money by giving things away. How clueless can one person be? The fact of the matter is this: Most websites back then were run by college kids who hosted their websites either on their school's server, or had an "uber-geek" as a friend who could host their site for them.

A good example would be the "Unofficial Official Squaresoft page" which eventually became www.thegia.com. It was run by a college student by the name of Andrew Vestal who, back then, was getting somewhere in the vicinity of 2,000 hits a day. Which was pretty good for early 96. It wasn't until he graduated and realized he could go get a real job that he handed the website to a bunch of uneducated teenagers who tried to make money off of it.

The net was free...long ago. When it was run by people like me. Now, however, it is all about begging and money-making. Thankfully, there is always a way to get things for free. I think a couple of you already know that, now don't you?

people should check out bittorrent, that program really has the chance to make places like file planet go out of bussiness.
When you download a file it doesnt matter if the source is too slow to handle the popular file, because you dont just download the file from the main source, you download it from everyone who is downloading the file at the same time.

Its called paying for convenience. fileplanet offers the same files to those who dont pay but your gonna have to take a back seat to those who do. personally i dont see a problem with this. you will never convince those who are simply to broke, to greedy or stingy with thier money.. (lets not mention all the warez dudes out there who think EVERYTHING should be free they rarly if ever, pay for anything)

ive been around since the doom days and the only way of keeping track of games were the 100's of postit notes and anything you can get your hands on in the area of your computer wound up with some kinda ip on it

then came kali/dwango/khan and a few other smaller services.. all those were wiped out by a small program called quakespy. this one program singlehandedly brought all the gamers togeather so that we didnt have to search for all those ip's to servers that "might" still be up.

i personally applaud gamespy and thier crew for what they have done for internet gaming. the fact that they can now sit back and be the big cat of online gaming is not only a testament to what they have done for the gaming community and internet gaming as a whole but also the fact that they will go above and beyond for thier loyal customers by getting them exclusive demos and beta accounts. 90% of these other freesites simply emulate what gamespy started back in the quake days with a simple program called quakespy and a webpage called planetquake.

as some stated earlier nothing is free bandwidth is expensive and the amount of online gamers now vs 8 years ago has grown to astounding numbers where 10,000 to 50,000 people use to download a file wasnt a big deal the gaming scene didnt have the numbers it does now.. but now you get places that are hitting 300,000+ downloads for SINGLE files let alone the massive archive that fileplanet hosts and offers for your enjoyment FOR FREE.

i would much rather pay 60 bucks a year for a Superior service on 24/7 than wait for some service where i have to wade through popup after popup only to be told FILE NOT FOUND and have to refresh 500 times to get the page to load so i can actualy download at 10k (if im lucky)

as someone said in an earlier post.. you dont like it then ignore it. fileplanet is simply doing a service for its members one that i find many other sites both paying and free lack in both quality and quantity.

Well the Demo was pretty much well... boring. Don't waste your time downloading it unless you like bad voice acting, funky video code and a time investment you'll never get back.

Apon Starting the Container Mission the first time, the engine kicked over into software mode. After the second time it was pretty choppy and had some texture problems. This might had been a decent game had they leased a decent engine like unreal or what not.

Now onto the Fileplanet Flame war....
I pay for Fileplanet, as I did for Gamespy Arcade and 3D. Why? Convenience. I don't like ad's I don't like wasting my time hunting down web sites to get demo's or getting horrible connections on small ass ftp sites that are obviously being hammered.
And FP does get some exclusives including to date the majority of the MMORPG game beta's and short time subscriptions into the Retail games as well.

But what kinda annoys me is people saying they get a new car every year (lease, which to me is throwing away good money anway) a fat morgage and what not, then what is 7 bucks out of your pocket a month, or cheaper if you go the yearly subscription route? As it's been stated here good stuff isn't free anymore. You get what you pay for. I mean do you get your paper delivered or get it daily? Do you pay 6 to 10 bucks to go to a movie not including consession items?

I understand that games take time and money to make, and the same applies for pretty much everything out there.

Which is why I still ask Blue to offer some sort of paypal option on this website. There are things worth paying for, and if you don't like it then fine, but quit bitching and moaning about it like some B rated movie actor in a death scene and just die already.

The Internet was never free. It was being paid for by rich dumb people who thought they could make money by giving things away and everyone got spoiled. Now that some of the costs associated with it are being passed down to the users, people are saying it isn't fair.

Nothing is free. If you go to someone elses site, you're making them spend money for the bandwidth you are using. No bandwidth is totally free when it comes to web sites.

I liked it when freelancer came out with their exclusive file planet demo.
The full game was already out on the warez sites, so there was no need to pay money to fileplanet. Everyone won.
well, except for the stupid developers/publisher and fileplanet.

I won't be buying this game as a protest statment to the devs - you go exclusive to a pay service (or any subscriber service) for your demo instead of letting it be distributed freely then you don't get my money. PERIOD.

Rat, it's a Demo PREVIEW, so you should be seeing it publically released shortly. Fileplanet's just making deals to help get its members even more perks. Don't take it as if it's not going to be public.

As for me, I can't get the damn thing to run --- probably some EZPad error or something. Quite frankly, from what I've read, I'm probably better off

Ummm..hello?
As in everything on the internet,like information and data,not access.
Again,please read and you will see my post that clearly states "I PAY FOR HIGHSPEED INTERNET ACCESS"...Don't mean to spell it out here folks but sheesh!

So you're willing to pay money for something that you can willingly get for free (internet access)... however, you choose to pay money for a superior service that provides benefits over that of the free provider (in your case, speed, and in my case, the reasons I had mentioned in a previous post).

Now, why is it that when we're working on the same principle, I need to check my head, but you do not?


In addition, prior to flaming me for "having my mommy read your post for me", please make sure that what you write clearly conveys what you are trying to say, rather than a vague statement that could be read in a number of ways (perhaps proper punctuation would have helped).

You absolutely have Fileplanet issues.

On a different note, how many "free" things do we pay for?

Why is that?

Thinking the answers are obvious,
Ray

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This is the start of the coming trend of having to buy demos.

Why does every game ask "install Gamespy now or later?" grrr how about NEVER!!!!!????!!!!

Fileplanet and Gamespy seem to be so inbed with developers and publishers that I don't trust them anymore for anything.

I won't be buying this game as a protest statment to the devs - you go exclusive to a pay service (or any subscriber service) for your demo instead of letting it be distributed freely then you don't get my money. PERIOD.

Yes, I do agree that game developers should, *whenever possible, host their own patches. I DO NOT think that is the only way they should be distributed. I will continue to pay FilePlanet and the other 5 or so companies I subscribe to that bring me digital delights in an instant. The time I save NOT digging around for stuff is well worth the money. I've been a web developer since 1992, and I can find anything I want out there (legal or otherwise) for free if I so desire. It's not rocket science, but it is usually a waste of time to me. My time is limited and valuable.

Since you've had your head in the clouds for 12 years let me tell you about a marketing concept that has been successful as long as I can remember, called "convenience products". So the theory behind them is that people will pay a bit more for a product that takes less work to use. While I am no fan of most "convenience foods", they are the best example. (microwave this, and frozen that) You may think the users of such products are "stupid" or they "need their heads examined", you are welcome to your opinion.

Keep something in mind: If companies like FilePlanet go away, and software companies become the only outlet for files and patches, you will pay more at the cash register to cover the cost of these services. Be thankful FilePlanet and the others are around.

Should we psychoanalyze your alias now, or save that fun for another day?

do developers even play test this stuff themselves? I've been playing FPS's since Doom and even on easy this demo is damn near impossible. Oh, and we don't want to hear that damn "beeping" noise constantly telling us our armor is low, it's annoying as hell!

This demo seemed awful to me. It was slow, laggy, and pretty unplayable on low rez on my Radeon 9800/P 2.8Ghz.

The Demo reminded me of Trespasser without the semi-neato physics.

-ebob9

Ummm..hello?
As in everything on the internet,like information and data,not access.
Again,please read and you will see my post that clearly states "I PAY FOR HIGHSPEED INTERNET ACCESS"...Don't mean to spell it out here folks but sheesh!