[D] New BW Server - Page 29

On June 21 2013 16:18 xboi209 wrote:
They said they're gonna port the old games to bnet 2 soon(TM)

On June 21 2013 17:12 Qwyn wrote:
If they port the old games to BNET 2 and give them auto-matchmaking, I am all for it.

On June 21 2013 14:45 ninazerg wrote:


He said it was going to take a long-ass time. Not that I'm complaining though - I think every time someone bumps this to ask when it's going to happen, it gives Birdie more power, and his power level needs to reach 9,000 before the project can be complete.

On June 22 2013 01:03 Eywa- wrote:
Hmm... I haven't checked out the BW forums in a while, so I may have missed something that provoked this... I really have always liked the idea of a server and I wish you the best of luck with it... Back when I was working on something like this (privately - for the most part), our programmer had gotten all of the code pretty well finalized... And we had a functioning test server (which I had played a few games on with L_Master and Sebas, everything worked great, elo included. Anyhow, this was well over a year ago... Certain things remained however...

1) It's illegal... No matter what anyone says about how Blizzard hasn't sued other servers and/or can't... They can and they would if they thought it to be worth while. I mean, if you're doing crack, it's likely that the cops won't catch you and that the cops don't care too much if they catch you... But it doesn't take away from the nature of the activity and the risks implicated. IF Blizzard ever were to sue the owner/creator of this server when it took off... They would be in a far bigger dept than they could hope to ever pay off.

2) Financials, one of the things that has to be talked about when running a server is... It costs a lot to rent a server which is going to be powerful enough as to not have people get pissed off at the server for being slow. You can't either do an expand as you go unless you grab a cloud service because if there is a noticeable delay or lag in the start, people won't trust it... So, you need to make money from ads and sponsorships... If done successfully, it can be great given that... It'll increase credibility and inevitably increase partnerships... However, the bigger you grow sideways $$$$, the more interest comes through point #1.

3) Technical maintenance, what happens when a server goes down? What happens when bugs need to get fixed? Is it the same day, or is it a week from now? Technical problems can arise at any time even and many times for no apparent reason. Are you going to pay someone to take care of this on a daily basis? To monitor server stats? If so, include this into point #2, if not... Then how will reliability and uptime work?

4) Public relations, to maintain a good server (which is mostly the noise you hear about iccup), you need good relationship management. The tricky part about this is... You can't manage the server independently, you don't have the money to pay anyone to manage it professionally except otherwise included into point #2 budget and you're basically left to rely on whoever volunteers for the position. You may think it's hard to get a crew as bad as the one down the road and go with the pre-conceived notion of "well, just get better people" or "well, it's all about the management" and then you will get to see how the ware of the job which is not even giving these people benefit in either online or irl takes hold...

5) Koreans, if you want the server to really explode, you need the Koreans. They will increase your ad revenue as well as give you a solid reliable player base which constitutes your "activity". You can't have the server being dead all the time. For this you'll likely need prize money which relates back as well to point #2.

I hope you make it work, despite not playing or watching bw... I think it's a good thing for the community so long as it works.

On June 18 2013 05:29 EpicDramaOnIccup wrote:
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Oh the Irony, today Iccup.GeckoXP was blacklisted by the owner of Iccup Iccup.YelloAnt for racism! The moderators deleted this guys thread quickly to cover it up. GeckoXP is no longer on the Iccup team.

Recently Gecko had been trolling Alfio on Defiler.Ru, and when Alfio reverse trolled him, Gecko blacklisted Alfio and Zergboy on Iccup.com I guess YellowAnt caught on to his abuse of powers and fired GeckoXP ROFL.
Source: http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/community/thread/615870.html

Don't think Iccup's problems are cured yet, there is still Face/Gen/and S0ldi3r who are just as retarded as GeckoXP.

Let us all remember GeckoXP kept banning a bunch of users for bming Iccup on sites like teamliquid.net and Defiler.Ru. LRM)Semih was only banned because of his bad reputation, no real reason. Sayle was only banned because he was streaming at the same time as an Iccup tournament, and Gecko got pissed... Doty, Alfio, Eonzerg banned for bming Gecko on Defiler.Ru and German sites. Kiante, Sabas, Mellial, Shade, sgs.pie, slugger[wok], stratos all banned for making fun of pucca on teamliquid.net.... And some of the most important community leaders banned because of a childish grudge of Gecko like LRM)Game, Eywa, Noone, Sayle, Joekim.

And some of the most important community leaders banned because of a childish grudge of Gecko like LRM)Game, Eywa, Noone, Sayle, Joekim.