Originally Posted by Mr. Sharpy

Look, if you people want to pay money to a company that has been greedy as your average oil company since they started making money with gamespy, that's your perogative. But what about the fact that these people _force_ everyone they host to put files exclusively on their sites; or the fact that they actively give services AT A LOSS to game develeopers to trade for exclusive downloads...

What we have here is a trend that will sooner, rather than later, force people to pay money to download FREE files. Period. Unless people make a stand and say "I refuse", that's our future. And you won't be able to blame me. I had a mod on planetunreal. Just to piss them off we put exlusives on unreality.dk. I have refused to use gamespy or fileplanet since fp required signin. I guess i'll sink with my ideals, but i'll have a clean conscience.