Title Fight

We'd also need to rally the ENTIRE civ community. ;) (Apolyton, CDZ, CDG, MZO, and other sites).

Some of the 10,000+ vote wins was when the other game only had 1,000-some votes.
 
Originally posted by scoutsout
If we can muster one-third of that number CivIII will own this thing.
True but Half-Life will probably win. There are hundreds of thousands people that play a half-life mod everyday. At any given moment there are over 100,000 in a server. If they mobilized like this nobody would stand a chance but fortunately most don't seem to care.
 
I think what needs to be done is to make aboslutely sure that everyone and anyone who visits CFC every couple days or more will know about this and vote...
TF, if you're reading this, can you please get an announcement running in the forums ASAP, reminding people to vote on the 30th, and 1 newspost per day to make sure people who don't happen to visit on the 30th or read past newsposts will know about this?
 
I missed last fight. But I won't this time. I just convinced my son not to vote SMB.
 
Some of the 10,000+ vote wins was when the other game only had 1,000-some votes.
Have you seen the voting in Half-Life v. Unreal Tournament? Over 10,000 votes cast for both at this writing...
 
I won't be all that mad if Civ loses. I mean, it's the greatest game ever, but some of these others are very close. Ocaraina of Time is a great game. I would have been furious if we had lost to GTA. Killing random innocent people is NOT my idea of a good time.
 
I think that civ3 will win its side of the brackets and the final match will be civ3 and half-life, I think half-life will win.
 
There has been a controversy regarding Diablo II's win. Apparently a fellow named Comi from BlizzHackers rigged up a votebot to send about 500 votes in the last few hours of the poll. However, GameSpy claims that it did not affect the results that much, as foreign players voting made a far more devasting difference:

From sclegacy.com

Hey,

I saw you emailed Fargo, but he is away at GDC so I am happy to answer since I was the one who did the investigation. I hope you will understand why I am NOT posting this in a public forum.

We checked into it. The good news is we found out the script does not work. It attempts to vote multiple times, but since we track IP and GameSpy ID, the script does not allow it to change IP addresses. So any time the page refreshed and the vote went up, it was probably another voter registering their vote. The script kept running off the same IP and therefore was only counted once. This explains why the guy said that it doesn't work a few times, because the vote would appear to be tallied only when other people's votes were being recorded.

We are not going to publicize this fact since we do not want them to try to allow dynamic IP voting. But I am going to respond to each email I get and point this out. All the script did is drive up our page views.

The bad news for StarCraft fans is that it looks like Diablo 2 won legitimately. http://www.DiabloII.net and http://diablo2.ingame.de/, two of the largest fan sites, posted news of the voting on their sites last night. Our stats showed that more than 13,000 people came in from those two sites alone. So the win appears to be legitimate.

Starcraft fans probably won't be happy, but it appears everything is kosher.

John "Warrior" Keefer, Managing Editor

Guys, the reason that Diablo II is winning by so many votes is because practically every fan from countries like Korea is voting!
We MUST mobilize foreign sites that may not know about this. A good start would be to go through each fansite featured on civ3.com to get out the vote. Google may prove to be a good benefactor as well.

For a turn-based dawn!
 
Originally posted by CivCube
There has been a controversy regarding Diablo II's win. Apparently a fellow named Comi from BlizzHackers rigged up a votebot to send about 500 votes in the last few hours of the poll. However, GameSpy claims that it did not affect the results that much, as foreign players voting made a far more devasting difference:



Guys, the reason that Diablo II is winning by so many votes is because practically every fan from countries like Korea is voting!
We MUST mobilize foreign sites that may not know about this. A good start would be to go through each fansite featured on civ3.com to get out the vote. Google may prove to be a good benefactor as well.

For a turn-based dawn!


Rally Civ III Poland!! And Dutch Civ!!! Rally all you can find!! May Civ III win internationally!! May we at least get to the point where we face Half-Life/Ocarina of Time!! We must make it!!! Rally all ye children, may Civ III win!!!!!
 
They really need to get someone who can write a better description of Civ3

I deplore the sensless violence of GTA but when I read the article I fell out of my chair laughing.

The Downfall of Civilization
Justin "Violent" Leeper
Two games couldn't be more different. On one hand you have a stuffy, anal strategy game, which should be marketed as a sleep aid. On the other hand, you get to shoot people, jack cars, and become the kingpin of a tropical paradise. You can either mess with menus and agonize over paltry details in Civilization III; or you can mess with people's health with your trusty chainsaw in Vice City. Which do you want to tell your friends about? Having your citizens build an aqueduct, or stealing a military tank and going on a killing spree? Bottom line: It's much more fun to destroy a civilization than to make one. Another game comes to a bloody end at the hands of the almighty Vice City.
 
We should remember wha happened Match 1 in "The Stadium" during Title Fight. Remember Madden vs. Punch-Out!! Well, we have to remember that this might repeat itself. Everyone thought Madden was gonna whoop The Stadium. But it didn't. It lost in the first match. And if you look carefully, it says that Punch-Out!! was made in 1987. A classic, thus. So we must rally even more!!! I will encourage all my friends to vote Tuesday!! And if we don't win I shall either be :mad: or :cry:. Or both.
 
The way it's going, it will more likely be Diablo II. :p
 
Counterstrike lost WF. And it did it twice. :p
 
I'm very dissapointed that Starcraft didn't win, IMO it should've won the whole thing. There was a ton of controversy about the whole bot thing over at SCLegacy, and it got a bunch of people extremely riled up. Apparently, the bot didn't actually work. I read the thread on blizzhackers.com where the "bot" was revealed and I think it was absolutely hilarious, especially considering their silly thing reportedly didn't even work! Anyway, I'm getting OT.

I voted for CIV3 in all of them so far, but I think I'll have to go with OoT if it comes to that matchup, and hopefully it will, because I now despise Diablo II after its victory of SC. But it's not that big of a deal anyway, it's not what's really important in this life, so whatever happens is ok.

But it MUST be Starcraft or OoT!!!!!!:mad:

haha, j/k.
 
Heh, well, you'll be happy to know that StarCraft is clearly winning the Battle Royale today with over 2000 votes...

/me voted for Myst
 
Everyone, try to put a message in your sigs, so that people don't forget to vote for Civ on the 30th!
 
The Civ supporters are outnumbered by at least four to one in this thread.
 
Originally posted by CivCube
Guys, the reason that Diablo II is winning by so many votes is because practically every fan from countries like Korea is voting!
We MUST mobilize foreign sites that may not know about this. A good start would be to go through each fansite featured on civ3.com to get out the vote. Google may prove to be a good benefactor as well.

For a turn-based dawn! [/B]

Actually, Korea contributes more votes for StarCraft than Diablo (they are huge fans of both games though). The decisive votes come from Germany.

I just found these forums, I was voting for Civ III before (from round 2), but only because I'm also a Diablo fan :). Somebody posted a link from the main titlefight thread about the match vs SMB3. Guys and gals, I'm realy looking forward to a Civ III vs Diablo II finale! :goodjob:
 
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