  MysticGogetaThe Robot DevilPremium
join:2005-03-14
League City, TX
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 |  NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ | Re: No I consider myself a "hardk0r3" gamer, and I don't intend to use anything else.
However, I'm usually not upset about more free stuff. Hardcore gamers also want more upstream bandwidth, while we're after this market segment...
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| |  Speedy8Premium
join:2002-08-22
Alliance, OH | Re: No I agree. Other than lower latency not much would surpass upload speed on hardcore gamers' wishlists. | |
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|  JehuPrime AddictPremium
join:2002-09-13
MA
kudos:2 | negative. | |
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 99664227Heavily MODeratedPremium
join:2002-11-21
USA | . No. | |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD |  Is Any Portal Useful?
Why would Comcast think a "gaming portal" would receive a more favorable response?
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|  CheesePremium
join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
kudos:1 | Re: Is Any Portal Useful? said by pnh102:Does anyone actually use any of the other portals on which ISPs like to waste money? Of course not. Why would Comcast think a "gaming portal" would receive a more favorable response? Because they are Comcast? The BMW of the Internet! HAHAHA!  | |
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| | | At least they invest in their service. Take Rogers in Canada. They have removed free webspace (moved to geocities), combined email with Yahoo, introduced caps, introduced throttled bittorrent , removed free newsgroups, introduced higher prices, (and on the flip side, raised speeds 2 mbps for middle of the line customers) pretty much in this order. The fact that they dropped all these services and still raised prices infuriates me.
I probably wouldn't use this service, but the fact that ISP's try new ideas at least shows me where my money is going.
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| | DonLibesPremium,ExMod 2001
join:2003-01-19 | Re: Is Any Portal Useful? said by spotters:At least they invest in their service....I probably wouldn't use this service, but the fact that ISP's try new ideas at least shows me where my money is going. No one's saying they don't invest in their service. The question is whether they spend subscriber's money in a way that benefits subscribers. | |
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 Mactronel Camino RealPremium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv | Never again... "Keeping in mind what Comcast did to TechTV, are real gamers actually interested in this new portal?"
That and their generally lousy and expensive TV and HSI services here.
I'll never have anything do with Comkrap ever again. 
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|  DaveDudeNo Fear
join:1999-09-01
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| Re: Never again... said by Mactron:"Keeping in mind what Comcast did to TechTV, are real gamers actually interested in this new portal?"That and their generally lousy and expensive TV and HSI services here. I'll never have anything do with Comkrap ever again. I pretty much removed G4 from my viewing when they ended Techtv. I watched TechTv all the time.
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| | | | Re: Never again... Yes sir , it has never been the same since techtv. I tried watching after that. But now it is full of bad shows. With bad hosts. G4TV has been dead for sometime. | |
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| | | | said by DaveDude:said by Mactron:"Keeping in mind what Comcast did to TechTV, are real gamers actually interested in this new portal?"That and their generally lousy and expensive TV and HSI services here. I'll never have anything do with Comkrap ever again. I pretty much removed G4 from my viewing when they ended Techtv. I watched TechTv all the time. You must really need a girlfriend if TechTV was exciting. | |
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1 edit | We want the hardcore gamers...... ....as long as they don't use too much bandwidth.  | |
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daslog
join:2002-04-10
Milford, NH | yep If they added impromptu BF2 server hosting for free I'd be interested. I would also consider using it if they hosted every patch for every game as it came out for fast downloading (which they have to provide the bandwidthe for anyway). Kinda of like Fileplanet, but for subscribers only.
Other than that? I'll pass. | |
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| | | Re: yep this is what i was thinking. they really need to start listeing to the people here. | |
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 ThirdShifterPremium
join:2002-03-16
Vernon Rockville, CT
kudos:1 | Yess!! YESS! this is what i was waiting for my whole life!
Comcast you guys read my mind. Oh my. Let go call my mother.
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| | | Re: Yess!! YESS! g4 is now like 50% xplay.  AOTS isnt that bad tho. | |
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| | portals... hrmm... gaming portals ... unless they improve latency don't think hardcore gamers will jump in | |
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 TomekPremium
join:2002-01-30
Valley Stream, NY | Who needs portals? Every hardcore gamer has their own sites, clans that they go to get their interest. All gamers are really interested are servers, FAST servers. After all that's all they do is play games, not stare at Comcast portal looking at Wii ads.
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capkingy
join:2003-06-06
North Kingstown, RI | G4 sucks. Comcast did a great dis service when they killed off tech tv for the crap that they put on now. G4 sucks and this new portal will suck. Hard core gamers will want games that take advantage of their new dual core computers and not simple javascript or adobe flash games. | |
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| | | Re: G4 sucks. Second that | |
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 tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL | Ugh. Save your money, Comcast. This is a guaranteed flop (hint: portals are doomed to fail miserably). | |
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| | I Like G4 It wasn't as good as Tech TV (I miss the Screen Savers) but it's still decent. I do like XPlay. Also, they do reruns of Arrested Development, and Star Trek TNG. | |
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 newviewEx .. Ex .. ExactlyPremium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
kudos:1 | Whether we're gamers or not . . . I'm certain that Comcast will spam our email inboxes announcing this new "portal". | |
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| | playlinc ...is no good, the voip sucks, it crashes, no one uses it. Go into one of the playlinc rooms and you will be the only one there. | |
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| | | Re: playlinc Like they know what a hardcore gamer is and what games they play and what to open for what games. What about XBox live? PS3? and other consoles.Nope but then again they aren't the true hardcore gamers now are they? | |
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| | | | Re: playlinc ummm....PlayLinc supports XBox and PlayStation. Not many people there yet cause its only a few weeks old. | |
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| | Idiots. The only way they are going to make online gamers happy is by providing extremely low latency through the Comcrast network and with no loss of data. Somehow I do not see that happening anytime before the third coming of Christ.  | |
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 EnzonE
join:2000-03-23
Indiana, PA | Inquired on this with a Comcast Analyst As a Comcast subscriber I wondered why it wouldn't allow me to log in to that site; she mentioned that I would need to pay an extra $10 to be on the 8Mbps Tier (I saw on the article it also said something that those on that tier with still enjoy free membership to the IGN Founder's Club). The chat session was over before I had a chance to ask when it would be open to the public; and if the public would also have to have 8Mbps? Since they didn't acknowledge it on my original request; guess we'll see nothing to hold my breath on I'm sure!
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| | It's actually kind of good... OK, so I checked it out just to see what is was all about...and the video play is really good. I watched about 6 videos that streamed much faster than gamespot which is what I read.
Hmmm-- thought it was going to be isp crap, but I have to admit I was wrong. | |
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| | | PlayLinc is truely awesome! Playlinc from Verizon is truly a great portal. It has not yet caught on being relatively new. However, it beats X-fire and any portal hands down, if you are only smart enough to give it a try.
I'm a big X fire user but this thing has most all xfire has and then some- everything I can possibly need for single play, team players etc.
Name it and they have it and I have had no issues with it, worth complaining about. They even give away hardcore gaming machines from Alienware. What a cool GUI btw
This thing can only go up from here and all for free too!
As one who is a big time free service advocate. I give 2 thumbs up for Playlinc. www.playlinc.com | |
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