I think it's unprofessional to be a mercenary like that, projects for hire. I don't see anything wrong with it but it doesn't improve their image or make them seem like a real company which I know is what some of them would like.
\I heard they would give the donators free access to the service they initially paid for. So that should solve that. On the other hand, it's just buying yourself more chance to win games. Which just doesn't feel right. To me, the only thing that would make a premium subscription worth it's money is exactly that: widescreen. But I would never get it anyways since it would feel like cheating. For a game of this age and the limited userbase it seems very odd to ask money for game play enhancing features, especially since I don't see them pull a sustainable profit out of this. Then again I don't know their business plan but in the age where everything on the internet can be acquired for free, it seems like an odd move.
Imo, the main problem with voobly is that they're alone, they got a monopoly on competitive aoc play and can implement whatever they want. Users might or might not get mad but there's just one place to get highly competitive games, and that's there. However, for a game of this age and the very limited amount of new players (especially because voobly has an insanely steep learning curve) it's just a matter of "how long they can get on with this".
Aaaah, why doesn't GR get some staff to volunteer and implement rates, they'd be top in no time (Don't start a GR vs voob debate please, I'm just doing some wishful thinking)
EDIT: nice find on the GPL license. Curious how this is gonna end legally.
Correction You are absolutely rightTrying to take Advantage Of PURe Monopoly .
Not trying, just taking.
If you have a problem create your own aoc client.
so if i donate $1 now i will get free premium?because of this anyone that donated (even those that donated a $1) will be given free premium accounts so they can use the patch.
http://www.voobly.com/pages/view/25#Why_Premium_Only
More accurate information about Widescreen being premium only.
To be honest, that looks like dummy reasoning to me. Taking away features for our own protection? It's only a game, we want to enjoy it as much as possible. It's not because there are a few rotten apples in the community that spoil games with cheats that the whole community has to be punished.
Decapitation is a cure to headache but not the best.
the only thing i wanna understand it why widescreen patch is still allowed if the true ?This is happening because unfortunately the widescreen patch weakens the anti-cheat -- it still works but isn't as strong with a few of the scans. Given, the trade-off between risking cheaters in games and allowing a small subset of the user base to use the widescreen patch we've chosen cheat free games as that affects all users on Voobly.
You're right mandrakin y se que te vas a enojar por esto, but didnt you recieve donations for aocgames hosting and then 1 week later you closed it? 11. Did the donator knew you was going to close it? 111.
jajajajajajAramis_Arg said:Asi que AP! ok ?
What u're saying is bullshit. Try playing AOC in a WideScreen with a resolutión of 1280*1024, it's horrible. The graphics are distorted, it's really **** play in that conditions.I was completely against this idea from the jump and still am. I hope this patch will be banned from WCL and I sincerely hope that voobly reconsiders what they are doing. Leave AOC how it is/was because theres a reason we all stay and still play a 10 year old game and I really can't stand how much **** voobly is adding to aoc. If u want this patch, create a seperate lobby where players can only use it there, but leave all this bullshit away from the heart of aoc (MS) because it's complete and utter BULLSHIT.