Is anyone playing online games in ireland?

rainer

No advertise, No selling in the store, No people talk about it
Why it seems no people're playing online games in ireland?
I've heard games like "Everquest" have been very popular in US and EU,but seems not the case.

DirtyDog

there's a good few of online games mostly :

Battlefield DC
Battlefield Vietnam
Call of Duty
Medal of Honor

Check out the games section on boards for server info....

Gurgle

Warcraft 3 is good on multiplayer - works perfectly well over a 56k modem too

Monty - the one and only

moved to games board

Horsefumbler

might not be as big here as it is where you come from rainer but there it's still quite popular.

think CS is the most popular online game

monument

Originally posted by rainer
No advertise

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Originally posted by rainer
No selling in the store

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People I know who are not even gamers have asked me about online gaming because it's being advertised. Never mind about the bloody games companies, bloody Eircom are advertising it!

As for no selling in stores, that’s untrue. I got the online only game SWG from a toy shop, World of Wonder, in Ballina. And along with them game retail stores and video stores are selling console hardware for online use and games with online play.

Rev Hellfire

Can u play these online games anywhere or do u need the internet? Or is it only in the stores, tell me more.

i_am_dogboy

There are pretty big unreal, wolfenstein and counter strike communities in ireland as far as i know. And there are definitely a fair few people playing starcraft and red alert 2. I'm guessing that not many people here play MMORPG's is because of the cost of internet connections in the past, I know when Everquest came out the only thing that stopped me from buying it was the prospect of €200 phone bills, well that and the loss of my social life.

Matt Simis

Originally posted by Rev Hellfire
Can u play these online games anywhere or do u need the internet? Or is it only in the stores, tell me more.

How come every couple of weeks someone comes along asking " where are the online players in Ireland"...? No matter where you are, as long as you have a phone line you generally can play games online. Why people think its any different here I dont know?

No selling in stores... so you are telling us Game, Smyths, Gamestop etc boycott selling online games?? :rolleyes:

A better question would be: how did you come to those conclusions?


Matt

zAbbo

sarcasm is wasted here Rev

There is also a bubbling Quake3 crowd in Ireland

Website - www.quake.ie
Irc - #quake.ie, #ctf.ie,#DeDanann,#n8z and #fh

Maximilian

What is an internet?

Sorry to go off-topic but is there a freepost P.O. box number for sending messages to these boards. I have almost run out of stamps. Also, I appear to have lost my favorite pen.

Yours etc.

bus77

Maybe he's talking about massive multyplayer online games, for which theres a board here

po0k

shinzon

Im probably going to be lynched for asking this or at the very least show my ignorance of such things, but where oh where do you get those cards from


Shin

Rev Hellfire

http://www.boards.ie/gathering/index.html

blame Hobbes

shinzon

Originally posted by Rev Hellfire
http://www.boards.ie/gathering/index.html

blame Hobbes

thx rev

priceless lol

shin

concretedonkey

Those cards are about as funny as cancer

Gonzo

there are very few gaming servers in ireland, alot of games dont even have an irish server, most Irish gamers can be found playing on english servers with no reference to being irish, but there is the odd Irish server here and there for counterstrike, battlefield etc.

Stormfox1020

During my stay in the USA Online gaming is was very popular, as with the MSN's and the AOL's. Our whole town was wired with cable though so everyone could get cable internet, so in high school lots of people would talk about the games they had the night before etc. But then again the computer to human ratio in america is about 2:1

User45701

Several people play freelancer online in ireland , there are a few active clans and i come across several irish freelancers on a normel nite

Rev Hellfire

There are currently irish servers for the following :

bf1942, bf vietnam, cs, ns, enemy territory, q3, qw, tribes2, call of duty, ut2004, dod, halo

so other than these games theres no serves in ireland.

-ADREN-

Hey maximilian is that really you?

Where the hell did you go, last time i remeber playing cs with you was about 5 years ago on cs_assault.

[DF]Max wasnt it?

OfflerCrocGod

Originally posted by Rev Hellfire
There are currently irish servers for the following :

bf1942, bf vietnam, cs, ns, enemy territory, q3, qw, tribes2, call of duty, ut2004, dod, halo

BAH!! ye and they are empty for the most part!, come on most of us if we want a good game we go to the UK/E.U. servers......unless you enjoy playing solo.

krattapopov

ive been playing the toca race driver 2 online demo with some friends... good fun so it is

Dcully

For Day of Defeat,Counter-Strike,Natural Selection Irish servers always full go to www.jarhedz.com .

Rev Hellfire

Originally posted by OfflerCrocGod
BAH!! ye and they are empty for the most part!, come on most of us if we want a good game we go to the UK/E.U. servers......unless you enjoy playing solo.

The point made was that there are no irish servers. Simply saying that there are loads.
Hardly our fault if people dont use them, but then again thats pretty much typical of irish gamers always sitting on their butts moaning but never getting off their arses and doing anything.

po0k

True


Croc - you say they're empty, why not hop on IRC, grab a few people and join them.

Lazy git.

PhuckMasterZero

/me remembers back in the old days running a serial cable for 5miles to play Doom...

Kold

Probably worth your while moving your cursor over the games heading.

po0k

Originally posted by PhuckTard2000
/me remembers back in the old days running a serial cable for 5miles to play Doom...

:rolleyes:

fenris

There are a few Irish players on Planetside, you really need broadband for it to be smooth though !

po0k

That goes without saying, which is one reason, I suppose, why there isn't as prolific an online gaming infrastructure in Ireland today compared, say, to the US or even Britain.
It's thanks to Rev and the early pioneers that there are even any Irish game servers at all.

n1ck

Originally posted by Dcully
For Day of Defeat,Counter-Strike,Natural Selection Irish servers always full go to www.jarhedz.com .

In fairness the cs server is never full, rarely even has people on it.

andrew12g

And as for the CoD servers, i havnt seen any one on those servers this year

zAbbo

Originally posted by andrew12g
And as for the CoD servers, i havnt seen any one on those servers this year

There could be 10-20 like yourself saying the same thing, GET UP OFF UR HOLE and do something.

Jump onto IRC, throw some emails around, post here on boards. Its your kind of MONG attitude that Rev is talking about.

andrew12g

I wasnt complaining was simply stating. anyway whats the point the server is (rap. Theres never anyone on with admin and the map rotations ar crap.

zAbbo

Again, you are an IDIOT

GET UP OFF UR HOLE AND DO SOMETHING

find out whois admin, get in contact, if you want new maps, link him to new maps, ask him nicely to install it, have a look for server configs for him etc.

The hardwork is already done, the servers are up, they are available, fckin make use of them by getting people together.

andrew12g

hey hey, easy there. I just been playin on it with dcully (i think) for the last hour. But u get a lot of noobs on the irl server tho. and becides u r thinkin i want to play on that server when i couldnt really give a sh1t because ther are better servers out there

OfflerCrocGod

Ye calm down bazH - I try Irish servers hang around in them for 10-20 mins then leave when I get bored - it's just at the mo' Ireland doesn't have such good Internet/Broadband penetration. Hopefully though it will get better - I am the only one in my circle of friends who has BB, so e-mailing them wont work;). There are Irish players there just not enough....give it time and we'll soon be complaining about overcrowding .

dangerman

i am playing online games in ireland.

cs, dod, ut, bf1942[dc of course], mohaa, pandora tomorrow. most recently been wasting my time with the toca racing driver 2 demo.

we're all over the place. as people have said, get involved in the community.

if ur talking about (snigger) console online gaming, get a life, stick to pc gaming if u can afford it.

BLITZ_Molloy

I started playing online games with Quake 2 and Total Annihilation. These days I play about 8 or 10 different Half Life mods, Halo, Battlefield 1942 and Code of Duty.

I've been meaning to get into QuakeWorld and Quake3 because they're so bloody popular at LANs. Can't find a copy of Q3 in any of the shops though..

Now that there are so many UK servers and most players are on broadband or at least ISDN I don't see much point in Irish servers. It's not that I don't think there should be communities of Irish players but I don't think the physical location of the hardware really matters.

andrew12g

Ah but it does. There's an atmosphere of Irishness. Think of it as a pub. Would you prefer to be in an Irish pub or an American Bar. And becides your ping is slightly lower.