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.Originally posted by scoutsout
If we can muster one-third of that number CivIII will own this thing.
Have you seen the voting in Half-Life v. Unreal Tournament? Over 10,000 votes cast for both at this writing...Some of the 10,000+ vote wins was when the other game only had 1,000-some votes.
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
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!
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]