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Originally Posted by Stinney
Also the method SWGEMU propose to implement to get around the monopoly is for the people running the monopoly to authorise official servers.
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Also known as standards. These are used to insure the best environment possible to players.
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Originally Posted by Stinney
Independent servers have to go through some sort of screening process and the people running the monopoly (SWGEMU) are the same people to grant that qualification?
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Well, they
did write the thing, after all. It's theirs, not yours, not ours. Show some appreciation that the developers decided to pursue the project at all.
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Originally Posted by Stinney
It still sounds terribly unfair to me.
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There is nothing at all unfair in the developers using the system they have developed from the ground up in whatever manner they see fit. You people who feel
entitled to other people's work just kill me.
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Originally Posted by Stinney
The only way to get around this problem is not to host a server at all. If the motives of the SWGEMU team are as honourable as everyone says, then theres nothing to be lost.
However, if there is some underlying strategy going on here, then SWGEMU will continue on this path.
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People have been begging the SWGEmu people to host a server when the project came to fruition. Here they are, giving us what we've asked for.