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I hate the Gamespy Network.
Relevant history:(Skip the history)
Somewhere between 1997 and 1998 I started "designing" webpages after Striker started making a
webpage for our diablo guild, Warriors of Extreme Brutality or {WEB}. I actually used some
WYSIWYG* editor that geocities had to make my pages, very simple
and typical "geocities site" about starcraft and diablo. I didn't offer much as
far as content.
A little later - January, 1999 to be exact - I started working on MasterMind's Final Fantasy 7 and 8 site.
(don't click the porn link unless you have javascript disabled, it opens a 400kpage that
makes you click ok a million times) This is the first website I made entirely in a text
editor. I stopped working on that site to start on my Xenogears page. It's been ravaged
by fortunecities auto-ads, and I never really got far with it.
Somewhere in there, i started visiting DiabloWorld
on a regular basis and became friends with GoMMeR.
We met after a "heated debate" on the diabloworld forums =) I don't remember the
topic or anything, but we were both on the same side. Anyway, I find out his website
address (http://www.angelfire.com/or/gow/ - The Gods of War, no longer available) and
offer to do some "cool images" for the site.
  
As you can see, They're not that exciting. At the time, I didn't know that was the
Japanese Yen character, but knowing that now makes them even more stupid =)
I joined forces with GoMMeR and Politze (now THAT's an obscure reference... I haven't seen
him around for... 4 year now? he worked on the Gods of War site aswell.) to bring the
world Blizzard Empire (http://www.blizzardempire.com and .net - no longer running, was
going to be a site for blizzard related games, and ended up turning into a site that would
host other sites for free) I don't know if Politze actually worked on the blizzard empire
site or if he left before then.
Blizzard Empire soon became PC-Gamer Network, and because of our lofty ambitions, that
soon became the Gamecop Network. In it's prime, Gamecop was hosting dozens of sites, and
serving something like 16 million page views a month.
Hosted Sites: quakeiii.com, quake3vault.com,
quake3stuff.com, pofl.org(new hosting I believe),
blizzardempire.net, autokill.com,
maparchive.com, warcraftii.com(looks like he sold that one to
blizzard), tenthlegion.net, thebrujah.com, unrealuniverse.net, mapfinger.com, lagg.net, ffviii.net, draenor.com, diabloden.com, d2lair.com, centralpowers.com, bahamut-squad.com, and of course gamecop.com (the original code is hidden in a comment
tag if you're intristed).
Gamecop eventually died out because of a drop is advertising revenue. (banner ads became
worthless, and we refused to use popups for the longest time, and when we did, it just
wasn't enough). GoMMeR could no longer afford to run the network and started closing down
sites. (however, he left a few sites running like centralpowers.com as per my/strikers(?)
requests)
Anyway, the reasons I hate the Gamespy Network:
1. They sellout like motherfuckers, try to download something from them without seeing 25
advertisements. (so help me God, I will not have a single advertisement on this site -
although i may ask for donation every now and then =)
2. They pretty much monopolize the gaming sites market.(sparing a few like diabloii.net and Loaded
Inc. - awesome site, I can appreciate your work/effort guys)
3. Rival network back in the day. It's a law that i have to hate them =)
4. You have to register with fileplanet to download
ANYTHING on ANY of their billion and 2 network sites. (A startling trend among sites these
days - but that's another topic for another day, maby soon?)
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