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Is anyone playing online games in ireland?

rainer · 2004-04-23 09:46:23

No advertise, No selling in the store, No people talk about it Why it seems no people're playing online games in ireland? I've heard games like "Everquest" have been very popular in US and EU,but seems not the case.

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23-04-2004 10:46am

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No advertise, No selling in the store, No people talk about it
Why it seems no people're playing online games in ireland?
I've heard games like "Everquest" have been very popular in US and EU,but seems not the case.

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#2 23-04-2004 10:51am
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there's a good few of online games mostly :

Battlefield DC
Battlefield Vietnam
Call of Duty
Medal of Honor

Check out the games section on boards for server info....

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#3 23-04-2004 10:55am
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Warcraft 3 is good on multiplayer - works perfectly well over a 56k modem too

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#4 23-04-2004 12:13pm
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moved to games board

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#5 23-04-2004 12:29pm
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might not be as big here as it is where you come from rainer but there it's still quite popular.

think CS is the most popular online game

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#6 23-04-2004 2:21pm
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Originally posted by rainer
No advertise

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Originally posted by rainer
No selling in the store

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People I know who are not even gamers have asked me about online gaming because it's being advertised. Never mind about the bloody games companies, bloody Eircom are advertising it!

As for no selling in stores, that’s untrue. I got the online only game SWG from a toy shop, World of Wonder, in Ballina. And along with them game retail stores and video stores are selling console hardware for online use and games with online play.

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#7 23-04-2004 2:28pm
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Can u play these online games anywhere or do u need the internet? Or is it only in the stores, tell me more.

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#8 23-04-2004 2:38pm
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There are pretty big unreal, wolfenstein and counter strike communities in ireland as far as i know. And there are definitely a fair few people playing starcraft and red alert 2. I'm guessing that not many people here play MMORPG's is because of the cost of internet connections in the past, I know when Everquest came out the only thing that stopped me from buying it was the prospect of €200 phone bills, well that and the loss of my social life.

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#9 23-04-2004 2:38pm
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Originally posted by Rev Hellfire
Can u play these online games anywhere or do u need the internet? Or is it only in the stores, tell me more.

How come every couple of weeks someone comes along asking " where are the online players in Ireland"...? No matter where you are, as long as you have a phone line you generally can play games online. Why people think its any different here I dont know?

No selling in stores... so you are telling us Game, Smyths, Gamestop etc boycott selling online games?? :rolleyes:

A better question would be: how did you come to those conclusions?

Matt

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#10 23-04-2004 3:03pm
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sarcasm is wasted here Rev

There is also a bubbling Quake3 crowd in Ireland

Website - www.quake.ie
Irc - #quake.ie, #ctf.ie,#DeDanann,#n8z and #fh

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#11 23-04-2004 3:06pm
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What is an internet?

Sorry to go off-topic but is there a freepost P.O. box number for sending messages to these boards. I have almost run out of stamps. Also, I appear to have lost my favorite pen.

Yours etc.

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#12 23-04-2004 3:26pm
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Maybe he's talking about massive multyplayer online games, for which theres a board here

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#13 23-04-2004 3:33pm
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#14 23-04-2004 3:43pm
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Im probably going to be lynched for asking this or at the very least show my ignorance of such things, but where oh where do you get those cards from

Shin

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#15 23-04-2004 3:54pm
Rev Hellfire

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http://www.boards.ie/gathering/index.html

blame Hobbes

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#16 23-04-2004 4:17pm
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Originally posted by Rev Hellfire
http://www.boards.ie/gathering/index.html

blame Hobbes

thx rev

priceless lol

shin

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#17 23-04-2004 5:05pm
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Those cards are about as funny as cancer

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#18 23-04-2004 5:39pm
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there are very few gaming servers in ireland, alot of games dont even have an irish server, most Irish gamers can be found playing on english servers with no reference to being irish, but there is the odd Irish server here and there for counterstrike, battlefield etc.

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#19 23-04-2004 5:43pm
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During my stay in the USA Online gaming is was very popular, as with the MSN's and the AOL's. Our whole town was wired with cable though so everyone could get cable internet, so in high school lots of people would talk about the games they had the night before etc. But then again the computer to human ratio in america is about 2:1

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#20 23-04-2004 6:20pm
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Several people play freelancer online in ireland , there are a few active clans and i come across several irish freelancers on a normel nite

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#21 23-04-2004 6:57pm
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There are currently irish servers for the following :

bf1942, bf vietnam, cs, ns, enemy territory, q3, qw, tribes2, call of duty, ut2004, dod, halo

so other than these games theres no serves in ireland.

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#22 23-04-2004 8:06pm
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Hey maximilian is that really you?

Where the hell did you go, last time i remeber playing cs with you was about 5 years ago on cs_assault.

[DF]Max wasnt it?

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#23 24-04-2004 12:02am
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Originally posted by Rev Hellfire
There are currently irish servers for the following :

bf1942, bf vietnam, cs, ns, enemy territory, q3, qw, tribes2, call of duty, ut2004, dod, halo

BAH!! ye and they are empty for the most part!, come on most of us if we want a good game we go to the UK/E.U. servers......unless you enjoy playing solo.

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#24 24-04-2004 12:22am
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ive been playing the toca race driver 2 online demo with some friends... good fun so it is

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#25 24-04-2004 9:46am
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For Day of Defeat,Counter-Strike,Natural Selection Irish servers always full go to www.jarhedz.com .

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#26 24-04-2004 10:14am
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Originally posted by OfflerCrocGod
BAH!! ye and they are empty for the most part!, come on most of us if we want a good game we go to the UK/E.U. servers......unless you enjoy playing solo.

The point made was that there are no irish servers. Simply saying that there are loads.
Hardly our fault if people dont use them, but then again thats pretty much typical of irish gamers always sitting on their butts moaning but never getting off their arses and doing anything.

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#27 24-04-2004 3:14pm
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True

Croc - you say they're empty, why not hop on IRC, grab a few people and join them.

Lazy git.

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#28 24-04-2004 3:16pm
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/me remembers back in the old days running a serial cable for 5miles to play Doom...

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#29 24-04-2004 3:17pm
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Probably worth your while moving your cursor over the games heading.

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#30 24-04-2004 3:20pm
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Originally posted by PhuckTard2000
/me remembers back in the old days running a serial cable for 5miles to play Doom...

:rolleyes:

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#31 24-04-2004 7:11pm
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There are a few Irish players on Planetside, you really need broadband for it to be smooth though !

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