Thanks to the admin that sh*tcanned my helpful postFollow

People are having issues getting the beta files.

I went out of my way to re-download them for said people, then burned some of my limited bandwidth to put them on filefront as another alternative.

My post is now "unviewable" meaning one of you fancy admin types sh*tcanned it. So, I'm glad you enjoy pissing on people helping the community at large. I had also had the idea to continue doing it as well. **** that now.

Edited, Sep 6th 2010 1:13am by Pawkeshup

Edited, Sep 6th 2010 9:34pm by Kaolian Lock Thread: we're done here.

They haven't nuked the megaupload posts. Just mine. And I was going to keep updating that thread for people to bookmark it as long as I still had bandwidth to spare. And why is t against the rules? It's against the rules to post cracked game downloads. All I did was straight up download the files from the ****** SE torrent and repost them in a standard download format.

I reported your post because SE has asked people not to download the game client and patches from external sources. Their request was noted here on ZAM...that's how I knew about it.

There's already a post on the forums about how to work around the patcher. It involves using something like uTorrent/BitTorrent/etc. to open the torrent files SE provides. Then you close the patcher and let the other torrent client manage the download. The difference between that method and your method is that the source remains the same whether you use the patcher or the third party torrent client, whereas your method raises the potential down the line for abuse.

I'm sure your files were secure and safe, but it's a bad practice to get people into the habit of downloading their game patches from unsanctioned sources. It would be just a matter of time before someone downloaded something that someone had altered, ends up with a virus/keylogger, loses their account, and then blames SE for the catastrophe.

The admins were just doing their jobs. When SE says don't do it, ZAM can't allow posts to remain in place that enable people to do what SE has said not to do.

Why not? Why does the community get to crow incessantly about how mature and respectable they are while they simultaneously ignore and/or **** on anyone who tells them what they don't want to hear? I don't make the rules. SE does. And regardless of what SE may or may not do for ZAM should the admins collaborate with them where requested, there's no benefit to the community in contravening SE's wishes...particularly when an alternative solution is already available.

It's not a superior solution. I downloaded the client at a pretty steady 900kb/s using BitTorrent to open and manage the torrent information SE provided. Not only that, but I had all of the patches that went with the main client before the main client was even done downloading (instead of getting hung up for hours at ~95% complete on 6 separate patches). In doing so, I bypassed the virtually non-functioning client SE provided while still drawing my data from the exact same source SE gave us. For a community that never seems to pass up an opportunity to pat themselves on the back for resenting the idea of being spoon fed, ignoring SE for the sake of a one-click download because they don't want to learn how to use a torrent client doesn't seem to fit, ya know?

As I said...there's no long term benefit to the community in getting them accustomed to the idea of downloading clients/patches from external sources. Sooner or later, someone is going to plant something in one of the patches archives that doesn't belong there and a swarm of people who should know better but didn't are going to wind up with hacked and/or suspended accounts because of it.

There is no long term benefit for narcing on people just trying to help other out.

Tell that to the swarm of people who took it upon themselves to report me every time I told them something they didn't want to hear. I did it because that's what the report function is for. If it gets under your skin, good. If it doesn't, good. This thread is headed for a lock anyways.

Then use those nicy community relations to tell them that at this point, all we're able to beta test is other torrent programs or our patience with their poor choice of downloader.

As for the torrent options, there are people who CANNOT torrent at all, so giving them a straight download would be a great alternative.

You're uninformed and just trolling for lulz. Inform yourself and then PM me with your rebuttal if you must, but the bottom line is that a thread was started to enable people to contravene SE's wishes, it got reported and subsequently nuked, and the only reason I responded to this thread is to take some of the heat off the admins. My decision to report Pawkeshup wasn't personal, wasn't done in the hopes of getting him punished, and wouldn't have warranted criticism from me directed at the admins if they had let the thread stand.