Saturday, October 4, 2008

Internet Critic Reviews - Private Servers

Hey IC here to bring you some quality content, for absolutely no pay whatsoever. You play freeware online games right, of course that's why you come here so you can here my opinion on them. Do you dislike the massive amounts of grinding neccesary to be able to actually reach the top of the leaderboards. Then look no further then a private server. What people do with private servers is that they take they coding for the original game or another private server, and alter to make they game more desirable to play for long sessions. One of the flaws with this idea is the huge lack of people playing, because unless you've been playing the game for like 2 years and wanna try something new, you will not even consider looking for a new one.

What kind of games get a freeware private server, well the only ones I know of are Fly For Fun (FLYFF for short), Ragnarok or RO, and finally from what I know any game that's already free. I said FLYFF because Fly for Fun is extremely too much like World of Warcraft when it comes to the grind, so when they edit it and make a private server they always take the time to increase the experience you gain per kill. If they make a private server that entails to them having to pay for the server to stay up and hope that people donate to keep it up. Most of the time they also include all the payed for stuff you get in the original game, which therefor leads into my next point, legality.
If you do create a private server your basically stealing someone elses idea, so it's like going "Oh hey, Smosh is awesome why don't I take all of their videos and sell them on DVD." Actually that's not a bad idea. Giving all of the stuff you have to pay for, for free may be a fairly good deal but you have to consider the fact that you or someone will have to donate to keep the server up. There's only 2 reasons I can think of that would make a server be forced to drop: 1. The server host hasn't payed therefor causing them to shut-down the server, 2. The original game host (in this case it's Flyff), tells them they need to shut-down the site or they could be sued for illegal use of their game.
Well anyways that's all I have to say, thank you for reading and be sure to check out Monday-Friday this week for IC's Blogger Tutorials, where I tell you about all of the simple to extremely advanced things you can do with bloggger that most people have issues with.
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