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Unread 10-24-2004, 12:49 PM   #12
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sure...for a month or two. But that isn't a sustainable economic model. You can move to a subscription-based type setup but that doesn't always work either. The best implementation of this I've seen is shacknews.com. If you pay to join their fileshack service, you get no wait uncapped downloads of game demos and patches, exclusive access to some closed betas (EQ2 was the last one), and you can opt to turn off all advertising on their website. If you aren't a subscriber, you have to put up with wait for a limited amount of download bandwidth, 100kB/sec cap on speeds, and shacknews ads. This makes sense to me. I'm not sure how a site like ocers or procooling would do something like this though.
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