Why we all love gsi

Comprox · May 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Fileplanet horros :p</div><a href="http://www.seriouscommunity.com/" target="_blank">http://www.seriouscommunity.com/</a> take a gander at that, pretty sad news <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('>

SmokeMasta · May 2002

FILEPLANET == Evil

/me boycots it!

BOYCOT FILEPLANET!

eBnar · May 2002

Fileplanet doesn't need this to be boicotted, it could be boicotted based only on it's use of queues and registrations. Gamespy has gone rotten.

SentrySteve · May 2002

Dont even get me started on Gamespy, or fileplanet.

Parse_Error · May 2002

I say we start an all out GSI boycott!!! Who's with me!!??

Trane · May 2002

you know sometimes you just got to get it at file planet, besides were going to need fileplanet to host ns, so more peeps will see it.

SmokeMasta · May 2002

fileplanet will still suk
and /me boycots it <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

pielemuis · May 2002

I have no problems with fileplanet, rarely I had t owait for something that I wanted t odownload, and you have t oadmit they have an impressive amount of software on their servers, and I'm even thankfull for the ads when you wait, gives you something to read <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'> And if I do have to wait (max was 55 minutes for CSF) I just play a game, or just browse these forums, kill time on IRC,etc.

Graheim · May 2002

Also, there are, unfortunately, some good mods currently being hosted by fileplanet. I wouldn't want to do anything that might screw over Science and Industry or Destiny. Fileplanet has hostages.

Jackal · May 2002

yea the www.planet's were nice but now its all commercial ########... all those ads and popups, not worth it now..

MonsieurEvil · May 2002

Are you sure you want to contiue boycotting? They are the only news outlet on earth with

<a href="http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/doom3/" target="_blank">DOOM3</a>

SentrySteve · May 2002

YES! Continue the boycott!!! Don't let Doom III overpower the boycott!!

Hand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_Again · May 2002

I've hardly visited any GameSpy site for well over a year. I remember being really disgusted by the shoddy quality of their 'journalism'; it seemed that every article had to in some way plug GameSpy Arcade, or whatever it's called. Whatever happened to editorial independence?

Maybe I'm being too hard on what is just a collection of gaming sites, but a lot of the smaller sites seem to be much better in that regard - they don't have some commercial agenda to push. It's done for fun, not money.

As a dialup user (no broadband where I live) I've found Fileplanet incredibly annoying to use. Being asked to wait over an hour for a 50kB file, complete with megabytes of adverts, got beyond a joke. If they claim it's bandwidth costs that are the problem, how come they can always get the popup ads to you?

Also, trying to download a large file over a non-resumable connection isn't my idea of fun. If I can't <b>wget -c</b> it, I'm not interested. Sorry.

And now what's happened to this Serious Sam site? If even half of that is true, GameSpy Inc have some very hard questions to ask themselves.

Vincent · May 2002

DOWN WITH THE EVIL! BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!BOYCOTT!

Vincent · May 2002

dont releses ns to fileplanet find anuther site like nfo if you asked em nicely thed do it they use there own server for dls

MonsieurEvil · May 2002

NS will be mirrored to plenty of different servers, so if you don't want to get from FP, you won't have to.

But I will be - personal file server is t3h sh1zzle.

Why we all love gsi

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