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Article #54Re: MASSIVE online internet games - Unlimited trial ?
From: Xocyll
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:05
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:05
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step_y@yahoo.com (Cowly) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >yes, its true ! play an unlimited trial ! i played a couple of games >before which gives you like a 3 or 7 day free trial. to everyone who >want to play for an unlimited amount of time, for free there is the >following games which you can do that. Seems like you forgot to mention that these are all web-based browser games. >Space Federation - Galactic Conquest >300,000 + players. Space strategy simulation theme >http://spacefed.net 314 user(s) online. >Space Federation - Unification Wars >200,000 + players. Space strategy simulation theme >http://spacefed.com/uc 31 user(s) online. >Ancient Worlds Warfare >100,000 + players. Graphical medieval strategy simulation theme. >http://spacefed.com/aw 13 user(s) online. >3700AD >50,000 + players. Graphical Space RPG theme >http://www.3700ad.com 10 player(s) online. You've got a pretty strange definition of MASSIVELY multiplayer. >List of other free MMOG and MMORPGs >http://www.massive-multiplayer-online-games.com Which just lists the web games you listed above. >http://www.startrek-games.com So does this one. >http://www.starwars-games.com What, this one lists 3700AD and Space Federation again? They're Star Trek games and Star Wars games? You must have really spent big bucks getting permission to use Star Trek and Star Wars stuff. That or you're guilty of false advertising. >http://www.gamestotal.com Oh look, this one just lists the same 4 web games again, the same 4 you listed above. So in short what you have is a bunch of crappy, web based "strategy games" and a whole bunch of different web sites that point back at your crappy games. Where's the MASSIVE, where's the RPG part? Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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