FlowsionMS Down!

On topic of P-servers, my Computer Networking professor (my professor for 3-straight semesters), plays World of Warcraft. This guy has like 15+ lv 70 characters on WoW (he showed me), and he plays a p-server (offline). I asked him a question in regards to private servers today after lecture:

Me: Drew, what do you think about private servers?
Drew: Well.. I mean, man, it's ok, it's good and sh`it because you get to f`uck around and do sh`it that you normally can't do. But.. it takes away the fun because personally, I'd rather experience everything and explore, ya' know? I mean, don't get me wrong, dude, it's fun and sh`it, but it gets boring after a while.
Me: I see, heh.
Drew: Yeah, oh, and hey dude, whenever you want to switch to World of Warcraft, let me know, we'll do some f`ucking raids.

Yes, that's exactly.. what he said.. But yes, even my teacher said that p-servers are stupid and boring. I'm been anti-pservers since they came out. Because a lot of them took away my friends, so I have a reason to be against it. Not so much as because you "level uber fast with pomegranate handed to your ass" or any of that pomegranate.

You call your prof by first name? I once referred to Dr. Buechner as just "Buechner" to the head of the piano department and he lashed out at me like crazy >_>


But on the topic, its sad to see FMS go indeed, even if I dont play it. My dislike of private servers was because of a few reasons:

1. The high exp rates (as Butterfli calls it, spoiled) take away from the point of playing and just makes it unchallenging and... yeah =X
2. There's no community there. The reason most people seem to play is to try out these high levels and crap but that's about it.
3. Some people find it an easy source of income. I dont think they should be stealing other people's work to make "easy money" and their form of advertisement just sucks.
4. You see youtube litered with their videos. As a person who wants to see quality videos made, seeing it extremely hard to find a well made video instead of some video advertising a private server annoys the hell outta me. I'd wish I could filter those out but there's nothing I can do about it.

That being said, Flowsion for the most part isnt any of that. As Butterfli and Josh have mentioned, the exp rates are the lowest amongst private servers, there's a community there... in fact one can argue that this is even a BETTER community because it has drawn people back together. People who havent played ms in ages and have lost contact were able to find each other again here. People were able to make new friends, etc. What happens in FMS stays in FMS for the most part and you dont see very many videos about it on youtube.

That being said, what I earnestly believe is this: FMS has some VERY talented developers and I can see it being highly possible that they started their own game or came up with another way to keep the community united. As some who play have said, FMS is like a chat room on steroids (my paraphrase) with flashy eye candy and stuff. That means that FMS is actually a chat rooom... what's to say that you cant just make a new one with your own material and still keep people to play it/use it? I believe they really do have a special community and the staff there are people who get it: That service to the fans keeps them playing and whatnot and that they can go in a different direction and be successful, especially since they have a fanbase already.

@ Josh: your example has one problem: The smaller resturaunt with better service isnt in any way interfering with the bigger one/the bigger one has no right/no reason to sue the smaller company. A more reasonable example would be a small resturant with no chef buying food from a big resturant with bad service and reserving it for roughly the same price or the smaller resturaunt with better service stealing the recipes from the big one with crappy service.

The answer to your example is obvious: One would go to the smaller one with better service. However, there are ethical issues that are also there that'd lead people to the big one if food was indeed being "resold" or if there were stolen recipes involved.

Yes Private servers are "wrong", but at the same time, they have something special here. Let them reminisce about their server and best of luck to Trunks and the team in figuring out a resolution.