OT: GameSly VilePlanet (was Re: 3rd person camera patch)

[Seth G. <sga...@li...>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Vidar Braut Haarr wrote:

> Fileplanet _rocks_ ! their download system is the most advanced
> downloadsystem on the planet at this day. and it is really easy to
> find your file.

Fileplanet is "advanced" the way songbirds are some of the most "advanced"
dinosaurs.  It has it's charm but it has many compromises as well.
(more steps to download, fewer browsers, less anonimity, etc.)

Regardless of the pros and cons of the system itself, as a hosted site
maintainer I felt deeply betrayed when the new system was dumped on us
without warning - and with the ominous promise of features-yet-to-come
(which turned out to include a pay-to-download-without-waiting-in-line
option - perhaps not a bad idea but which is placed so that some users
think it's the only option.)

> I don't get why you people hate planetquake and related sites so much
> for ? I don't think you know how many downloads and users planetquake
> has given you by posting QF news on its site ?

I can't speak for anybody but myself, but I think GameSpy suffers from 
severe corporate fat-head (hyperencephalus incorporatus) evidenced by the
classic symptoms of feature-itis (inflammation of the scripting gland)
loss of hearing in both ears, an unpleasent smell and green-yellow pus.

(GameSpy may not be as big as they think they are.  The Open Quartz test
got many times more downloads from non-FilePlanet download sites.)

I suspect that FilePlanet is more complicated than necessary because the
emphasis is on profits from ad banners, pay-for-faster-download service
and so on.  How many KB of scripts and commercials is a person going to
download just to get a map, model or skin?
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