EA buys Napster bloke's site Comments by Robert Purchese

12 May, 2008

Social networking for MMOs.

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syphaa

12/05/08 @ 14:15

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Good job Mr Napster!
I do find myself checking out stats for online games, mainly 360 games. The halo 3 online stats site is very clever and interesting to peruse! Also the GTA4 social club is nice, although a bit buggy at the moment...more gaming stats sites!

JohnnyWashnGo

12/05/08 @ 14:19

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Is it just me, or does anybody else find the American fascination with statistics tortuously dull?

It bores the crap out of me... especially when I am being forced to watch one of their 'sporting' events and the monotone, droll, voiceover guy spends literally hours spouting statistical nonsense non stop.

optimusprym8

12/05/08 @ 14:46

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stats are only interesting when Dave Gorman does them

jonsaan

12/05/08 @ 14:51

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Hey! I invented Napster. My college room mate stole the idea while I was sleeping!

rauper [staff]

12/05/08 @ 14:53

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Sounds like a rubbish version of Eurogamers to me ;) $30m please

Erinan

12/05/08 @ 15:05

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never got out of beta testing and only ever attracted a few users

And he sold it for 30 million dollars??? What the hell is wrong in this world?

Bumhug360

12/05/08 @ 15:46

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It was a good idea for WoW but Blizzard blitzed the idea by doing their own version which turned out to be much better. $30 million does seem a bit on the expensive side considering what it does, would hope they havent forked out that much money to use it on Warhammer when the servers they use will already have the information needed for the stats.

That_Happy_Cat

12/05/08 @ 16:57