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[2468.00 --> 2470.00] You know what, Shlomo? |
[2470.00 --> 2471.00] You guys are all right. |
[2471.00 --> 2476.00] They're running a giveaway for their iced coffee, cold brews, and micro-roast coffee, which |
[2476.00 --> 2477.00] you can enter through the link below. |
[2477.00 --> 2481.00] So that's madrinuscoffee.com slash Linus. |
[2481.00 --> 2482.00] Cool. |
[2482.00 --> 2487.00] Use offer code Linus for that 40% discount, by the way. |
[2487.00 --> 2488.00] That's fantastic. |
[2488.00 --> 2489.00] Awesome. |
[2489.00 --> 2491.00] But wait, there's more. |
[2491.00 --> 2492.00] There's more. |
[2492.00 --> 2497.00] Not only is it 40% off, but you get this awesome giveaway opportunity. |
[2497.00 --> 2498.00] Um. |
[2498.00 --> 2499.00] Heck yeah. |
[2499.00 --> 2503.00] Speaking of things that are awesome, this was posted by Fushi on the Forum. |
[2503.00 --> 2508.00] EA has shut down the Revive network. |
[2512.00 --> 2514.00] That's actually not awesome at all. |
[2514.00 --> 2515.00] No. |
[2515.00 --> 2516.00] No. |
[2516.00 --> 2517.00] Actually, this is kind of trash. |
[2517.00 --> 2518.00] Ugh. |
[2518.00 --> 2525.00] So, you know how the gaming community went through this whole thing? |
[2525.00 --> 2529.00] Where dedicated servers started disappearing. |
[2529.00 --> 2535.00] You know, dedicated server software that came with the game that you could run and set up |
[2535.00 --> 2537.00] your own private server that other people could join. |
[2537.00 --> 2544.00] Those started disappearing in favor of the publisher actually running their own servers |
[2544.00 --> 2546.00] that everybody would connect to. |
[2546.00 --> 2552.00] And the argument for this was that, oh, we are simplifying the process and we are increasing |
[2552.00 --> 2555.00] the general quality of service for gamers. |
[2555.00 --> 2556.00] Um. |
[2556.00 --> 2563.00] And we are creating a more consistent experience with consistent rules and map rotations and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
[2563.00 --> 2566.00] Whatever the matchmaking is a big argument that's being made for it. |
[2566.00 --> 2567.00] Yeah. |
[2567.00 --> 2568.00] Um. |
[2568.00 --> 2577.00] But the problem that a lot of the advocates for private servers brought up was that, well, hold on a second. |
[2577.00 --> 2590.00] Like, realistically, you know, EA is not going to want to run, um, you know, okay, what would be an example of, uh, okay, so let's say Battlefield 2. |
[2590.00 --> 2591.00] Sure. |
[2591.00 --> 2598.00] EA is not going to want to run Battlefield 2 servers when there's like, you know, maybe a few hundred people left playing the game. |
[2598.00 --> 2599.00] Yeah. |
[2599.00 --> 2602.00] So this is a thing that you're going to pay for. |
[2602.00 --> 2613.00] You're going to buy this game and then at some point in the future, like an MMO, it's just going to expire because it's not worthwhile for EA to keep running this stuff and keep maintaining it. |
[2613.00 --> 2618.00] And you're just not going to be able to play multiplayer anymore. |
[2618.00 --> 2622.00] So specifically they're looking at Battlefield 2, Battlefield 21, 42, and Battlefield Heroes. |
[2622.00 --> 2624.00] I really liked Battlefield 2. |
[2624.00 --> 2625.00] It was a really good game. |
[2625.00 --> 2632.00] So one of the big problems was that GameSpy used to run, uh, some of these multiplayer experiences. |
[2632.00 --> 2633.00] Yeah. |
[2633.00 --> 2648.00] And when GameSpy disappeared in 2014, Revive, the Revive Network, um, sort of rose from the ashes as an unlicensed and unauthorized way of making these games playable online free of charge. |
[2648.00 --> 2656.00] Um, so EA had originally planned to make the older games playable at the time but reversed the decision as a result of significant technical hurdles. |
[2656.00 --> 2663.00] Which basically, I think, made the Revive guys think that they were pretty much good to go. |
[2663.00 --> 2665.00] But they just posted the following statement. |
[2665.00 --> 2667.00] We will get right to the point. |
[2667.00 --> 2673.00] Electronic Arts' legal team has contacted us and nicely asked us to stop distributing and using their intellectual property. |
[2673.00 --> 2678.00] As die-hard fans of the franchise, we will respect these stipulations. |
[2678.00 --> 2681.00] And they've been doing this for three and a half years now. |
[2681.00 --> 2690.00] So they've invested not an insignificant amount of their time and effort into making these gaming experiences still available. |
[2690.00 --> 2694.00] Um, you know, I wonder if, uh, FA Forever is still around. |
[2694.00 --> 2702.00] So that's another perfect example of, um, of a community-driven project to bring multiplayer back to a game that had been abandoned. |
[2702.00 --> 2704.00] It looks like these guys are still up. |
[2704.00 --> 2706.00] So this is for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance. |
[2706.00 --> 2708.00] Well, this is a little funky. |
[2708.00 --> 2711.00] The experience of FA Forever is actually very good, by the way. |
[2711.00 --> 2712.00] I've played for a little bit. |
[2712.00 --> 2714.00] I've been trying to figure out this pretty much the whole time. |
[2714.00 --> 2717.00] It says, we must ask that you stop throwing down ammo crates. |
[2717.00 --> 2719.00] This is apparently a quote. |
[2719.00 --> 2722.00] Seems a little informal, but it's apparently a quote. |
[2722.00 --> 2724.00] We must ask that you stop throwing down ammo crates. |
[2724.00 --> 2733.00] In other more legal stylized terms, please stop distributing copies of our game clients and using our trademarks, logos, and artwork on your sites. |
[2733.00 --> 2736.00] It actually has nothing to do with running the forums. |
[2736.00 --> 2743.00] And this is pointed out somewhere else in a comment, which made me realize that I'm not the only person that noticed this. |
[2743.00 --> 2746.00] Um, Revive doesn't seem to be reacting that way. |
[2746.00 --> 2750.00] So I'm wondering if there was more in the statement from EA, because it's a very short statement. |
[2750.00 --> 2751.00] Yeah. |
[2751.00 --> 2753.00] So maybe we didn't get the whole thing. |
[2753.00 --> 2756.00] But basically all they're saying is don't make it so you can download our clients. |
[2756.00 --> 2759.00] I'm sure people can find another way around that. |
[2759.00 --> 2767.00] Um, and don't use our artwork and logos, but like, I'm sure you can find ways around that. |
[2767.00 --> 2769.00] Although it might be a little bit of an issue. |
[2769.00 --> 2772.00] Um, where's the, where's the thing? |
[2772.00 --> 2773.00] Trademark. |
[2773.00 --> 2780.00] That might be a bit of an issue because saying Battlefield 2 on the site might be a problem. |
[2780.00 --> 2781.00] Yeah. |
[2781.00 --> 2782.00] Oh yeah. |
[2782.00 --> 2783.00] It is a bigger statement overall. |
[2783.00 --> 2784.00] Yeah. |
[2784.00 --> 2786.00] It's not that much bigger though, actually. |
[2786.00 --> 2789.00] Uh, yeah, there's not much else more here. |
[2789.00 --> 2790.00] It doesn't go this way. |
[2790.00 --> 2791.00] Um, yeah. |
[2791.00 --> 2799.00] So honestly, this is one of those like crappy legal things where at the end of the day, totally |
[2799.00 --> 2801.00] get why they have to do this. |
[2801.00 --> 2802.00] Okay. |
[2802.00 --> 2803.00] Hold on a second. |
[2803.00 --> 2804.00] Kid Ultra 13. |
[2804.00 --> 2807.00] I should just ban you from the chat. |
[2807.00 --> 2809.00] Let the old online games die and buy new ones. |
[2809.00 --> 2810.00] What's wrong with that? |
[2810.00 --> 2811.00] I'm down. |
[2811.00 --> 2812.00] Hopefully you're just trolling. |
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