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Re: DON'T BUY FUCKING EVERQUEST

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From: banshee_chicken137
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:00
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yeah you got a point there, but i guess i still don't see it as worth it, that
whole being a college student with no money and all.  i'll stick to tribes
myself =)
and as for mojo, who pissed on your cornflakes?  and just to let you know,
bought every game i own, d00d.

In article <7f4q27$sqk$2@205.138.138.3>,
  DuskRunner <dusky@homewolf.com.seenospam> wrote:
> davidhawks@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> >Baldur can say whatever he/she
> >likes, troll or not.  I personally have no desire to pay a monthly
> >fee to play games when as Baldur stated I payed already for the
> >game itself, but its just opinion.
>
> Um, games like Quake, Diablows, and such, are *NOT* ran on dedicated
> servers with a *paid* staff to handle network issues.  Or game play.  Or
> cheating.  Wake up, man...  Gamespy *only* looks for servers that are
> online *at THAT time* hosting a game.  EQ has servers, lots of them now,
> that are supported -- not a back-room PC with LinuxQuake running a server.
>
> The monthly fee is to pay for the *online service*, not the game per se.
>
> It's really not that hard to work out, really.
>
> DuskRunner
> --
> Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left Right, A,B, Start
>

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Subject: Re: DON'T BUY FUCKING EVERQUEST
Date: 1999/04/15
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