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Comment The Game is far from old and boring. (Score 2, Informative) 54

by 1am on Monday January 23, 2006 @02:25PM (#14541254) Attached to: Planetside For Free

I've played PS for the last 2 years (on and off) and it is far from boring.

I like to call it genre building:

Truely massively multiplayer (meaning persistent worlds)
Large scale (was ~500 players battles, now ~400))
Only WWII online could compete for scale, but everytime I try it the UI turns me away.

However, the game is 2+ years old, and is Sony does a horrible job of keeping people interested in their MMOs for the long term. They turn to in-game ads or sequels to keep people playing, instead of making sure the game works well and reacting to player feedback.

If only ArenaNet would create an MMORPG...

Journal Journal: Multicast 1

Journal by 1am on Sunday April 13, 2003 @02:21PM

Is multicast a poor idea or simply under-appreciated?
With so many internet broadcast stations available right now, I can see how multicast protocol could be a huge benefit.
Sparse mode routing takes a minimal amount of bandwidth, and allows a single broadcast stream to be heard by virtually unlimited users (as apposed to max 128 I see for many shoutcast stations)

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