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Diablo III is More Popular Than EvE

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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#21 - 2013-07-30 14:23:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Bienator II
network dudes block only bad games, unless you have bad network dudes

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
Rhys Thoth
Endland
#22 - 2013-07-30 15:27:25 UTC
Urgg Boolean wrote:
Wait, wait! Don't flame me!

I just noticed that EvE Gate is not blocked from my work routers. Diablo III and StarWars forums are blocked, along with every other game forum I know of.

So using twisted logic, Diablo III and StarWars are "more popular" as they get enough attention to be blocked by our network dudes.

Not that I'm complaining! I'm just wondering why? Why are EvE forums not blocked, but almost all other games are ???


Your network dudes play EVE?

I don't always undock, but when I do... no wait, I acutally never undock.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#23 - 2013-07-30 15:30:24 UTC
How the hell did this thread make it this far without anyone simply telling the OP to "Get out."?

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#24 - 2013-07-30 15:34:15 UTC
Urgg Boolean wrote:
Wait, wait! Don't flame me!

I just noticed that EvE Gate is not blocked from my work routers. Diablo III and StarWars forums are blocked, along with every other game forum I know of.

So using twisted logic, Diablo III and StarWars are "more popular" as they get enough attention to be blocked by our network dudes.

Not that I'm complaining! I'm just wondering why? Why are EvE forums not blocked, but almost all other games are ???


Because it's not as well known as other bigger names so it does not get flagged as fast. As much as everybody here loves EvE, starwar and Diablo both ahve much bigger audience even if the game are not the same quality. Indie games for example rarely ever get blocked. Not released yet title from the big publisher can get blocked withing a week of the announcement.
Victor Dathar
Lowlife.
Snuffed Out
#25 - 2013-07-30 16:46:29 UTC
That is because Diablo III is a master piece of slapstick fantasy comedy on par with Time Bandits and The Princess Bride. With slick graphics and a balanced combat system it is everything to every man and again shows that Blizzard is number 1 at producing fun MMOs with no grinding, writing on par with the greats of literature and voice acting that really makes you believe you are there.

^^^ lol that post is so bad you should get back 2 GBS m8 o7

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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#26 - 2013-07-30 16:51:37 UTC
Strategies (and EVE among them) aren't that popular as shooters/RPGs.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#27 - 2013-07-30 17:00:44 UTC
Lipbite wrote:
Strategies (and EVE among them) aren't that popular as shooters/RPGs.


Pretty sure starcraft and command and conquer is blocked but not EVE. It's not because of the genre of the game but it's overall "fame". EVE does not make the news in the same way the bigger publisher's titles do. EVE make the news when a 4k+ ship battle happen then we hear nothing about it for some time. Games like D3 make the news based on huge sales/advertising/launch nightmare.

Ask any random person around you wich one they know better ann command&conquer has more chance to win than EVE. D3 will also beat EVE.

In a few years after continuous growth, we will start doing stupid hipster jokes about how we liked EVE before it was cool and people won't question it because they didn't know about it.
Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#28 - 2013-07-30 17:15:19 UTC
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
I work for the NSA, it's blocked here.


You lie, your port just has not been authorised. Lol

COO - Bene Gesserit Chapterhouse  CEO - Sanctuary Pact Alliance
Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2013-07-30 20:42:28 UTC
Urgg Boolean wrote:
Wait, wait! Don't flame me!

I just noticed that EvE Gate is not blocked from my work routers.


500k players that's why. WoT would be blocked faster.

Battle.net (remember one of my WoW threads there got over 50,000 views alone on the old forums -- and it lasted but 2 weeks), the traffic through the router for a large company will be noticeable. WoW has to be one of the largest game forums in the world. Link a pic there and your site can get thousands of hits, and that's human traffic, not search bots.

_"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." _ ~George Orwell
Cynter DeVries
Spheroidal Projections
#30 - 2013-07-30 21:02:17 UTC
I suspect it's because players of those games are easier targets for click-jacking and drive-by downloads, but I could be wrong.

Cynter's Law of feature suggestion: Thou shalt not suggest NPCs do something players could do instead.
Onictus
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2013-07-30 21:03:54 UTC
Cynter DeVries wrote:
I suspect it's because players of those games are easier targets for click-jacking and drive-by downloads, but I could be wrong.


I giggle because where I work anything even mentioning a game is locked down.

....but we have youtube and facebook Twisted
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#32 - 2013-07-30 21:35:06 UTC
Urgg Boolean wrote:
Wait, wait! Don't flame me!

I just noticed that EvE Gate is not blocked from my work routers. Diablo III and StarWars forums are blocked, along with every other game forum I know of.

So using twisted logic, Diablo III and StarWars are "more popular" as they get enough attention to be blocked by our network dudes.

Not that I'm complaining! I'm just wondering why? Why are EvE forums not blocked, but almost all other games are ???


Because those admins are eve players?

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
stoicfaux
#33 - 2013-07-30 21:45:44 UTC
Qolde wrote:
The IT guy responsible for blocking websites at your office must play Eve.

Which means the IT guy is probably sniffiing your traffic, i.e. spying on you.

Is it still meta-gaming when it crosses into network level surveillance?

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#34 - 2013-07-31 00:23:52 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Qolde wrote:
The IT guy responsible for blocking websites at your office must play Eve.

Which means the IT guy is probably sniffiing your traffic, i.e. spying on you.

Is it still meta-gaming when it crosses into network level surveillance?


Yes, it's the best kind. Smile

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Regan Rotineque
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2013-07-31 01:05:04 UTC
D3 made me a sad panda .... almost as sad as Incarna and "the Door"......
Azriel Geist
Pure Victory
#36 - 2013-07-31 01:23:12 UTC
Hevymetal wrote:
Urgg Boolean wrote:

So using twisted logic, Diablo III and StarWars are "more popular"


So are hookers and drugs.


You can make it illegal but not unpopular.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#37 - 2013-07-31 01:41:36 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
How the hell did this thread make it this far without anyone simply telling the OP to "Get out."?


By using the face-saving phrase in post: "...using twisted logic...".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#38 - 2013-07-31 01:45:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Regan Rotineque wrote:
D3 made me a sad panda .... almost as sad as Incarna and "the Door"......




Sad !!?? Despite what was going on with the state of the game, that was an incredibly fun and exciting week tbh.


edit: I still laugh thinking about the pictures posted in "The Door Thread".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#39 - 2013-07-31 01:51:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Plastic Psycho
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Regan Rotineque wrote:
D3 made me a sad panda .... almost as sad as Incarna and "the Door"......




Sad !!?? Despite what was going on with the state of the game, that was an incredibly fun and exciting week tbh.


edit: I still laugh thinking about the pictures posted in "The Door Thread".

Riots in the streets of Jita, uncontrolled threadnaughts smashing cars and windows, angst, rending of garments, flames and bloviation... Yup. It was exciting, alright.
High comedy, by some standards. Blink
Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#40 - 2013-07-31 01:51:55 UTC
Your IT is only blocking games that are ass. You should thank him.
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