Dammit Teddy.

[Sar]

Eejit, was just gonna respond to a post!

Originally posted by Arfbandit
Witty answers about freeloaders does not hide the fact that the path chosen by BW is the same as the path chosen by many other now redundent GSPs.

Wireplay anyone?

Wireplay was great until they dropped the subs. And then even shitter to a greater extent when they went from the higher phone charges to fully open & public service.

I was a devoted WirePlayer from 1995-2001, while playing on BW publics a lot too (Duke Nukem, Q2 and Q3). I saw the service go from fantastic to shit, through ever increasingly open servers and services.

Basically on a free service the amount of utter fuckwits is immense, and subs, while hated by some, also has the beneficial side effect of rooting out the tosspieces who are basically only there to be a tosspiece and piss ppl off.

If subs cleans up the servers and leaves only (or largely) those people that purely want to have some fun by playing the game and being a committed member of the overall community then thank god says I.

There. That's all I wanted to say. Now to read the rest of that thread and see why it was closed.

 

[Moving Target]

The thread was closed for a reason, you know

 

[nath]

Ja wireplay was cool sar :/

Great community thingymajig too.

/me sobs a bit

 

[Embattle]

Yeah but Sar needs input

 

[MrChumble]

Amen to that. £12 to attain almost llama free servers. Forget the webhosting, the ftps, the bookables...it's the holy grail of a good game on a public server that's attracting me.

 

[Sawtooth]

Wasnt there a thread with the wireplay webby still intact.

Those were the days, jumpers for goalposts and everyone thought EF was a cool game . Bandits at 6 o'clock...crash

 

[S-Gray]

Hmm.. i wanna know somethin

you know like some of the guys "Buy" Barryservers, for what is it? £50 p/m ? Well do they have to pay the extra £12 / £24 to use their own Server?

 

[Sawtooth]

I too was feeling the need to respond.

How true...

 

[nath]

Originally posted by Embattle
Acting high and mighty, oh do give it a break and just fuck off looser.

Loser...

Sorry :/

 

[old.Kez]

I was going to post my views in the other thread, but it was closed. Hmpf.

Trebz, the black outline (border thx) of the smiley rollover is a different width on both images.

That is all.

 

[Sar]

Wireplay is still going, albeit in a vastly lesser form nowadays, since it was bought from Gameplay (the company that really royally screwed the service over - it was fine while it was still part of BT, much as it pains me to say that )

http://www.wireplay.co.uk

And in answer to SG's post: Yes, We league runners will get our subs paid for us, as we put in a lot of work to the running of the various leagues that BW run for their players.

In a league week I'll spend somewhere around 25-30 hours (at a total rough guess, not actually sat down and worked it out tbh, not worried either cos I do it because I actually enjoy doing it - been running leagues for a few years now, in Q2 and Q3, sometimes out of my own pocket) working solely on the BWCPMRAL and all of its associated responsibilities and duties. Be that running the actual league on league day, working on the website, dealing with player enquiries in IRC, on the website and in e-mail, dealing with admins, maintaining, updating and double-checking the league results and so on.

Having my subs paid for me is a nice treat - I don't expect any sort of reward at all for doing what I do (never have done), and IMO the people that do it with the reason of expectancy of reward are doing it for entirely the wrong reasons.

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by nath
Ja wireplay was cool sar :/

Great community thingymajig too.

/me sobs a bit

Aye, twas. Had the best proper community of all time.

Hopefully BW can generate an equivalent community over time through the subs process.

 

[S-Gray]

heh WirePlay was the first servers i used ti play online gaming on, ahh yes.. i remember gettin owned on Quake3.. then they just died on me

 

[Munkey-]

yeah, private servers can continue to be used by people iirc

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by Embattle
Yeah but Sar needs input

Damn right I do, because although ArfBandit was erroneous in his reasoning, and it being proper to correct him on that point, this is something I'm fairly "passionate" about.

I love online gaming, and anything that is done with the intention to secure its future I wholly support.

Not unconditionally however, as I don't blindly follow like a sheep, but as long as it is done with a modicum of sense then I have no problem supporting any venture like this.

 

[Embattle]

You explained it in more detail than I was willing too

 

[Sar]

Heh, well I was involved in Wireplays community fairly heavily, and a lot of the people there knew me, and I knew them too (albeit mainly solely online through the forums), through gaming on the servers and forum banter.

To this day I'm still the highest poster on the WP forums (12,500 posts in 14 months - you lot are amateurs in comparison ).

 

[Embattle]

I do believe I knew you there although BW was more my home than WP

 

[nath]

I miss beery :/

and Mist, he was sound.

and Jekub and Grom and P and the rest of the KC bunch, not seen them in ages.

/me sobs more

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by Moving Target
The thread was closed for a reason, you know

yeah, saw that eventually.

/slaps Embattle and takes away his rattle.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

The words

SAD BASTARD come to mind


Sorry had top be said

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by nath
I miss beery :/

Pop into #n2s, he's playing regular Q3 again and is playing for them now at tdm (and maybe a little CTF too).

Dunno where NGE went to though. :/


See misteh occassionally, and take the piss outta him still. Sound lad, nice to see at least sometimes skillz don't make you an utter pe0n.

Seen grom now and then, he actually posts here (albeit very rarely).

P is a regular reader/commenter on Yarn, so I speak to him often enough

Jekub I ain't seen in utterly donkeys, unless he's changed his nick.

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Sar

/slaps Embattle and takes away his rattle.

Clean it before you give it back to me

 

[Sar]

Maybe. We'll see...

Depends if you behave yerself or not

 

[Hashmonster]

Embattle
Forum Deity

emb what happened?? u not a mod now?

 

[Sar]

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Looks like a title change.

Should'a put in "Soiled his nappy"

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by Hashmonster


emb what happened?? u not a mod now?

Suspended.

 

[Summo]

I would use the term BUSTED!

But it's your choice.

 

[Shocko]

Originally posted by Embattle
Suspended.

Be glad that Ted stopped you... I don't even wanna think about how DBs would have "punished" you

 

[Embattle]

Either way no further comments regarding it thanks