Re: Oblivion trailer on Fileplanet

Thusly Michael Vondung <mvondung@xxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:

>that you actually find it perfectly fine that you didn't get anything *and*
>paid for testing a commercial product that you then later had to pay for
>again, that puzzles me, really.

WRT MMORPG it's crucial to be in the beta, because being in the beta
means you don't have a leg, but a whole centipede, up on those who buy
the game at release. A head start they are unlikely to ever be able to
catch up. If you want to be uber in a MMORPG, you want to be in the
beta.
That's why there were such hysterics (including suicide threats) when
the WoW beta accounts were doled out.

The reason I hate filesplanet isn't because they charge, but because
they pretend not to. If you're _not_ a paying member, you need to jump
hoops, watch tons of ads, hunt intentionally microscopic download
links intentionally buried among big steaming heaps of banners & ad
links, only to find that the download is either intentionally slowed
or, very frequently, the link broken. Also quite possibly
intentionally.

If you're not a paying member, fileplanet is pretty much unusable and
perhaps the most aggravating non-warez site on the planet. If they
went pure payment I'd not have a problem with them - but then people
wouldn't deposit as much stuff with them. So instead they offer "free"
downloads and simply make it very hard or impossible for non-paying
users to download.



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with european opposition to the war in Iraq. 2003.
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