Comments on: Freecraft Shut Down by Blizzard

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Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:32:51 +0000

I would like to know

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Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:45:20 +0000

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-06-30&res=l

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Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:23:17 +0000

Hello, “Some Other Troll” here!

I’m here to let YOU, the Freedom of Speach zealots that you don’t have to take it anymore! That’s right! Stop using FTP and HTTP! They’re causing the internet’s slowdown as well as allow those anti-Freedom of Speach people to pin their grotesque hotgrit-pouring fingers on innocent little software projects on sourceforge and others. Freecraft lives on…in another revisional name that only the developers and its devout users have chosen. Revive the one true name, ALE Clone! Stop making it look obvious! All the Freedom of Speach software projects will not be held on Bittorent and Gnutella; free from oppressors, for maximum dispersion. Now, if only we could have a special custom web browser that works transparently ontop of Bittorent or Gnutella protocol…in the making! Goodbye FTP! Goodbye HTTP! Goodbye Domain Name Servers!

Verry Truly Yours, IIRC –
-Some Other Troll

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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:13:54 +0000

I found this quite ammusing.. I just received the Sourceforge.net newsletter and in the list of top 25 projects for the month, freecraft is at slot number 10!! You’d figure they’d pull it from their newsletter as well..

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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:23:07 +0000

i’ve enjoyed most of what has been released as a result of the efforts of Blizzard Sofware over the last eight years, but since they were bought by Vivendi, things have certainly gone down hill.. I dont blame Blizzard for the demise of freecraft, but they are responsible for allowing themselves to be held under the thumb of something as disgusting as Vivendi Universal.. i happened to enjoy the progress of freecraft.. Vivendi Universal (and to a lesser extent, Blizzard) have taken away the future of something i enjoyed. I will not be paying money for another game owned by Vivendi, they never supported linux in the past, and they have continued to actively harm useful open-source projects.

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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:59:51 +0000

Although I loved Warcraft II, Warcraft III was commercial tosh in my opinion. There was no sea battles for one thing. That’s what happens when companies like Universal get involved. Crap games.

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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:59:39 +0000

Although I loved Warcraft II, Warcraft III was commercial tosh in my opinion. There was no sea battles for one thing. That’s what happens when companies like Universal get involved. Crap games.

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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:43:00 +0000

Actually this is good news. I thought i would get wc2 from the bargain bin one of thease days, so i could play freecraft with it. Since freecraft (atleast when i tried it the last time) lacked only in nice graphics. Maybe now with this restriction, and the start of a “new” project a lot more work will be put to those free graphics parts.

ps. Maybe i’ll eaven contribute, and add some graphics if i’ll have time…

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Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:09:00 +0000

Remember that Vivendi Universal owns Blizzard and Sierra. They where the ones who shutdown bnetd NOT Blizzard and they are most likely the ones that shutdown FreeCraft, as they didn’t post the actual letter no one knows for sure.. Vivendi is the reason why Sierra and Blizzard seem so against OpenSource and linux..

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Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:04:41 +0000

Blizzard could have come to an arrangement here.
If Freecraft was made to ONLY work with the official Warcraft content, people would buy the media in order to play. This is a free port for Blizzard.

Idiots.