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[GDJustin]

Fileplanet offers up a bigass long list of reasons why their free users have to wait in line to DL the files, and it seems reasonable enough, but do you guys think it's the truth? It's entirely possible that they just make everyone who doesn't pay for an account wait 30 minutes or so to DL their file, as an incentive to pay.

I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what they were doing, nor would it even really upset me. They offer a good service and have to get subscribers somehow. I'm just curious as to what some other people think.

 

[gofreak]

What i wonder is, if they use their subscriber servers to help the free servers along if the subscriber servers aren't so busy, to keep queues to a minimum. I always max out my connection on their subscriber servers, though, speedwise..i've never had them go slow. and it's nice not to have to wait in line anymore.

I imagine they probably are just that busy that the queues would often leave you waiting 20 or 30 minutes (or a lot more with some files).

 

[akascream]

I want to remember not having to wait in line for the non-subscription link on occasion.

 

[DSN2K]

what people believe there really queuing ? LOL

 

[gofreak]

In fairness to them, though, I'm sure server costs are ever spiralling. I can easily understand them pressing users into subscribing, even if that means setting artificial queues. They're very popular, and serve very big files to lots of people. It's prob impossible to make any money on that without subscription.

 

[deadhorse32]

Fileplanet's queue is PEOPLE

 

[xsarien]

I want to remember not having to wait in line for the non-subscription link on occasion.

I want to remember not having to register to download a fucking patch for a game that should've worked when it went gold anyway.

 

[GDJustin]

In fairness to them, though, I'm sure server costs are ever spiralling. I can easily understand them pressing users into subscribing, even if that means setting artificial queues. They're very popular, and serve very big files to lots of people. It's prob impossible to make any money on that without subscription.

Yeah, I'm not blaming them at all. This wasn't meant to be a thread pointing a big accusing finger at FP. I was just curious if anyone else had considered the lines not being real.

 

[fennec fox]

I'm not quite following the point of the thread. Of course they aren't "real", whatever that means. They were instituted to help regulate server usage.

 

[SKluck]

I don't really have any doubt about it. They can do whatever they want to do. I haven't downloaded anything from them in over 2 years. Every free server has 200+ people at 3AM? Suuuure.

 

[GDJustin]

I'm not quite following the point of the thread. Of course they aren't "real", whatever that means. They were instituted to help regulate server usage.

Meaning maybe there ISN'T in fact 600 people in line in front of me, and since I don't pay they just make me way a half hour, as an incentive to pay.

 

[duckroll]

I don't really have any doubt about it. They can do whatever they want to do. I haven't downloaded anything from them in over 2 years. Every free server has 200+ people at 3AM? Suuuure.

Errrrrr..... that's some pretty retarded reasoning there. This is the internet, just because it's 3am for you, doesn't mean it's 3am for the rest of the world. In fact, when it's 3am for Americans, it's smack in the late afternoon for Asia including Japan and Korea. I know it's hard to expect for most people, but the world IS larger than your country.

 

[TheGreenGiant]

Meaning maybe there ISN'T in fact 600 people in line in front of me, and since I don't pay they just make me way a half hour, as an incentive to pay.

maybe its

300 free downloads like yourself
300 guests.

just because you want it right now doesn't mean they have to give you anything for free right away. Wait your turn.

* and what's half an hour?

 

[BenT]

Since I used to work in the same office FilePlanet was run out of, I know a bit about this.

Fileplanet offers up a bigass long list of reasons why their free users have to wait in line to DL the files, and it seems reasonable enough, but do you guys think it's the truth? It's entirely possible that they just make everyone who doesn't pay for an account wait 30 minutes or so to DL their file, as an incentive to pay.

Yes, it is. It's possible to find no queue if you hit the site during an off-peak hour. In addition, hosted site files (you know, websites hosted by the Planet sites and such) have their own public servers with their own queues. These are frequently quite easy to get onto with no or minimum hassle. The lines are not manufactured.

What i wonder is, if they use their subscriber servers to help the free servers along if the subscriber servers aren't so busy, to keep queues to a minimum.

Nope. That wouldn't make good business sense. All that extra bandwidth is for members only. FP has to strike a fine balance between letting guests download big files for free (bandwidth isn't free for FP!) and making them want to subscribe (which pays the bills).

 

[Boogie9IGN]

I only DL Shenmue music from them, and there's almost never a line for it :\

 

[Deku Tree]

I've downloaded stuff from them w/o delays.

 

[hobbitx]

Those are totally fake lines, I remember a while back you used to just be able to refresh the page a bunch of times and you'd get in. I think they fixed it though because it doesn't really work anymore. I hardly ever need them for anything anyway, a little applied googling can get you anything.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

Some more obscure files (for example, older maps for quake2/3) have no waits.

What really gets me...is sometimes I't'll say 30 minute wait...and i'll end up waiting an hour or more because my place in line keeps getting pushed back for no apparent reason.

 

[Wario64]

I believed the "The forum is too busy, please try again" message on GAF was manufactured so that the admins could collect money from us suckers


Fileplanet though, I've actually never been on queue, ever. But then again, I don't really download much from fileplanet except those speedruns videos

 

[akascream]

I want to remember not having to register to download a fucking patch for a game that should've worked when it went gold anyway.

Yes, damn fileplanet for sabotaging perfectly good code!!

 

[SKluck]

Errrrrr..... that's some pretty retarded reasoning there. This is the internet, just because it's 3am for you, doesn't mean it's 3am for the rest of the world. In fact, when it's 3am for Americans, it's smack in the late afternoon for Asia including Japan and Korea. I know it's hard to expect for most people, but the world IS larger than your country.

Oh yeah, I'm sure when its in the middle of the night in NA (3-6AM), all the Korean, Australian, Middle Eastern, Russian, whatever else gamers come out and download all at the same time on an english website. NA gamers dwarf the rest of the world. Yet the download queues are constant. And yes, I understand people can leave it on overnight.

 

[xsarien]

Yes, damn fileplanet for sabotaging perfectly good code!!

You're missing my larger point.

 

[hirokazu]

Oh yeah, I'm sure when its in the middle of the night in NA (3-6AM), all the Korean, Australian, Middle Eastern, Russian, whatever else gamers come out and download all at the same time on an english website.

except that's probably not far from the truth. funny though that apart from Australia, you only mention non-English speaking countries... i'd think there are plenty of people downloading from outside the US (incl. English speaking countries), especially if they're linked to them from forums as is common for files on Japanese servers here...

and the queue length's never been constant for me, sometimes its as long as 40min while other times its about 8-9min.

 

[DopeyFish]

there's times where you might not have to wait either.

 

[BenT]

No, forget logic, SKluck's right. It's all a big line-faking conspiracy!