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Old 24-09-2006, 03:48 AM   #1
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Not sure how to put this, and don't want the officers at Abandonia to get mad. Why not drop all the games off the site that are ESA? Would it not save bandwidth? I mean although it is interesting to read about some of them, if a game becomes off limits why not remove it for room for your game you will get later? just a suggestion.
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Old 24-09-2006, 04:35 AM   #2
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Because this is a museum and a place to preserve old games, even if they aren't available. Also, some of the games we have up will change status, so rather than having to write a whole new review when it IS released, we just leave them as is.
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Old 24-09-2006, 07:41 AM   #3
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I was asked this before. I told the guy that we still honor the hard work our reviewers and translators have done.
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Old 24-09-2006, 12:03 PM   #4
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The bandwith we would save is minimal.
A normal page is not made up of THAT many KB's... and if you compare it to a 15 MB archive that is downloaded, it's a drop in the ocean.
The review itself doesn't use any bandwith until someone requests the page you know, and the discspace is no issue realy
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Old 24-09-2006, 03:45 PM   #5
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Well like I said it was just a sugg. I thought you would be able to save the review and everything perhaps to a cd? But if it does not really use bandwidth I guess it does not matter. I just kept reading about bandwidth being used. It must have been about people putting up links or something? mg2:
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Old 24-09-2006, 04:14 PM   #6
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On a site of this scale, saving anything to CD is not an option.
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Old 24-09-2006, 11:38 PM   #7
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(thebes @ Sep 24 2006, 05:45 PM) [snapback]257114[/snapback]</div>
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Well like I said it was just a sugg. I thought you would be able to save the review and everything perhaps to a cd? But if it does not really use bandwidth I guess it does not matter. I just kept reading about bandwidth being used. It must have been about people putting up links or something? mg2:
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The bandwith we'r talking about that is beeing used in rediculate ammounts are the bandwith for the download-servers where all the game-archive are placed. It uses about 4 TB transfere / month..
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Old 25-09-2006, 01:09 AM   #8
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Cause then people wouldn't go asking "do you have this?" when its ESA, they just check the site (well, the smart ones at least xD)
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Old 25-09-2006, 07:44 AM   #9
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And then there's the games that were abandonware, so they were uploaded and then ESA said, that it's protected again, but the review is still existing.
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Old 26-09-2006, 08:17 AM   #10
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If we remove those ESA'd games, we could no longer receive "OMG! Where can i dwnload thi gamezz!! WTF is esa" posts.
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