You sell people massive problems and you dont ewven have one person willing to start a server for you. Says something.

BigPond games. Disgusting.

Drunk again, Johnny?

Scary stuff.

back on your meds and into your padded cell you go back to.

Johnny do you reckon you could make a thread on GA called Johnny's ELog and everyday you post your thoughts of the world onto this thread so that the entire GA community can begin to understand your thought process.

BF3. Disgusting.

I don't get it..

GA doesn't care if nobody plays on their pub servers. Technically speaking, the less people on GA public, the more money they make in the long run.

lolz as per usual

You people are brain dead.

It is currently you guys left. You have no idea of the destruction you idiots cause.

Lets sell servers that millions of people use with 4 people on teamspeak3. lol.

Honestly, Bad Company 2 got good after the ladders died and people relaxed a bit.
Bad Company 2 is good to play now, cause the people playing know the game is dead and appreciate the fact they have a server to play.

Battlefield 3 is still going so strong, give it a year from now, it will probably have VOIP and be good to play.

Battlefield 3 has too many servers, the population of the dedicated type of player is too dilute.

I think perhaps what Johnny is getting at is that Bigpond will happily sell you a server and take your money knowing full well that there is no demand for the server slots from gamers. So in that respect they are not much better than a car salesman selling a lemon.

The supply of player slots far outstrips demand, but the demand for selling server slots is still there, so Bigpond continues to provide a supply of player slots as the demand for the player slots is driven by a different group of the population.

Nah, I think he was just having a mental breakdown.

That would make sense..
But Bigpond is selling a service which you do not ahve to take up.. the main target audiance for Bigpond server rentals when they started was so clans had a server to scrim on, which is why most teams here have one.

Yes there are a million pug servers out there.. yes you could rent one and add another to the many that are out there.. but its not BP's fault that there are so many out there or that you chose to use their service

It is not like that.

Nobody gives a damn about online gaming. It is a product or entity that has little worth. I have known this for a long time.

Big comapnys like DICE are the ones deluded, when charging a lot of money for a crappy product. The companies like DICE/EA and GameArena think the products are worth much more than they are.

In saying this, it is not all negative. There are people that like social online gaming. If they keep releasing crappy product, there will be less and less.

Learn to appreciate the fact that someone is willing to listen to you, trust me things can get a lot worse.

DICE/EA have tried to take far too much this time, and they take from the very few people who do like online gaming.

Everything about BF3 is overpriced. When they replaced reserved slots with premium, i knew it was a disaster. That Close Quarters DLC didn't go so well and everyone still played vanilla.

The target audience is everyone, the general public. The game makers have to make games for the general public to play, after that things will go well. Good graphics is ok, but in reality it is not very important. BF3 is resource hungry graphics wise and honestly it does nothing to improve the game. In reality the stupid frostbite engine has been buggy as hell, it caused endless problems in Bad Company 2.

.. What are you trying to say Johnny? I've gamed since 1991, and have excellent reading/listening abilities, but I don't get wtf you are trying to say.

Because "I" give a damn about online gaming. So that's wrong.

Online gaming has little worth? It's worth more than Hollywood.

They charge lots of money for ****, because PEOPLE SPEND MONEY ON **** LIKE YOU WITH 4+ SERVERS AT ONE STAGE?

GA "probably" sells the server slots at the chosen RSP price. A dollar a slot is as cheap as any BF server has been since '42.

Stopped reading the rest.

The slots may be worth more to GameArena than to the people renting them.

The slots are not expensive, i might get another 4 servers. lol.

I like online gaming, i rent the servers cause i like playing the games.

I will play Battlefield for ages, i am not too concerned about starting my servers at this stage. I will wait till half the current popular servers die a heated death. lol.

I have no idea why anyone would be mad at people who rent servers, when GameArena sold them in the first place.

I have been posting on this forum for ages and i still have no idea why people get mad at my every post.
I have done nothing wrong. In fact i was a very popular player when the servers were at GameArena. It is bizarre frankly, nobody is going to play with people who abuse people that post here.

I joined AEF to play in the ladders and nobody wanted to play. Plus i donated money. Why donate money to people who will not play the game, when you can rent a server. That is why my TeamSpeak3 is empty now, cause i did not want to continue paying for other people to play.

It is like i am the only one who rents servers. There are heaps of them. The game is designed to rent more servers, that is what happened.

The clans who play in the ladders have the option to rent a server and invite people to play, i have no idea why that is not the case. You can start the servers at any time, all you have to do is play them.

The same goes for the GameArena servers, obviously nobody wants to play them, otherwise people would.

GameArena has game servers and TeamSpeak3 servers, why not play those ones.

I have started GameArena servers for years. All you have to do is join, then wait till other people join. The general public starts the servers, then you morons abuse them on this forum.

The popular servers are popular cause the server owners play them.

You have been banning the wrong trolls for years. I know for sure that you guys getting mad a few GameArena loyals has caused this. Your debarkle over Bad Company 2 sent a lot of people to other servers when Bad Company 2 was released.

johnny the reason we rage you is because you make no sense...

You say one thing one minute but then say something completly diffrent..

Reading your latest post I have no idea what you are actually crapping on about..

Alot of people don't actually care what server they are playing on.. as long as the ping is decent, there are people on it and it's in a game mode that they are happy with.. or they see a mate playing on it...

Sure some poeple have some servers that they amy prefer over others.. but that is noramlly due to it consistanly fullfilling the above criteria as oposed to any other factor.

you keep going on about voice.. and i get that you like having voice capability.. but alot of people don't care about it. most games that I have played that has in game voice there may be only 1 or 2 people talking and most of that time they are just talking garbage..


EA/Dice doesnt have to bend to your will... they are a buisness and they make alot of money so they know what they are doing

So, all sellers should only hold the product that is actually being purchased.
Car yards should not have any cars in them, until someone asks for one and then you can sell it.
But dont sell it with too many seats because there is only 1 driver, so you only need 1 seat.
If 2 people are at the point of sale, then maybe you have to wait for the buyer to ask for a second seat.
You shall need to go back to the factory though and check that they have seats and that its designed for 2 seats.
Easier to make them get their own car really.
Then when you go out onto the road where everyone can see you and you see all these hitch-hikers you cant pick them up because you only have one seat.
Now its the sellers fault that all these people hitch hiking are not getting a lift.
So the sellers slip a few seats in a few cars, and because you can now pick up hitch hikers, thats the car designers fault.

What you want to see is the GA bus only on the roads.
The bus that has 30 seats or more.
GA will pick up the hitch hikers and all will be sweet with the world.
But dont get on the bus that has each seat compartmentalised because now they cant speak to each other and thats the fault of the designers again.
They build buses that you cant talk to the people next to you.
What a totally stupid idea is that.
Everyone has an obligation to talk to the person next to them.

I give up, my head hurts.

Allow me to rearrange your post(s) to highlight a few things:




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You know I've never personally had a problem with you. I've talked with you for hours on occasions about random stuff. But I will add my 2 cents on this, as I had forseen this happening 6 months ago, and even forewarned you about it:

Your TeamSpeak stopped being viable to use once you forced people to migrate to TS addons that change your channels automatically depending on your ingame squad. I'll say again, while it sounds great on paper, it's only great if all 64 people (and the other hundreds who join/leave throughout the day) to all be using it as well. - Otherwise, it's just easier for everyone to use TS the normal way, and make Temp chans if they need to lock people out.

Now, you used to use this setup, but you then had other issues. Those issues in a single word: ***. - You had *** complaining about stupid ****, *** trolling the TS, *** trying to cause issues behind the scenes. Of course, every scene has it's *** and it's easier to weed them out one by one than punish the lot with this horrible TS scheme.

I enjoyed coming on for a random chat, but that was taken away from me, and I can tell you, it's why I stopped visiting the Teamspeak. I consider my reasoning as logical, and most other reasonable people would come to the same conclusion if they were faced with the same situation.

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Here's a perspective from someone who doesn't care what server name they join:

*Set map pack, region, map size, and player vacancy filters. Refresh.
*Find server with almost 64 players, but no queue preferably.
*Join.

And here's what will make me remember to rejoin that server.

*Various settings or addons (server based rank, map voting, shuffle, maplist, etc)
*Online admins who remove troublemakers/skiddies.
*Good uptime, no lag, low ping, reliable performance.

Now it's somewhere just after that, where I may be interested in adding servers to favs, joining teamspeaks, and joining servers often. If the Teamspeak is empty or won't let me move into channels with people, I will leave. Your Teamspeak wasn't empty until the squad addon was implemented.

VOIP will never come to BF3.

I am not arguing with anyone. I payed my bills.

I am just saying what happened.

I put in a lot of effort for people to have a good time playing.

The people with the popular servers do the same.

If nobody wants to play together, who cares. I am happy to play the game and not listen to anyone.


I did not argue with anyone. It is reasonable to try to run things a certain way. I was very reasonable with the people on the teamspeak3.


Yeah i agree it caused a cleanout. But to be perfectly honest the system ended up working well. Once people learned how to use it, they liked it.

Some people like TeamSpeak3Sync and it worked well for some people. I won't bother with it again cause of the effort required to educate people about it.
The TeamSpeak3Sync setup fixed the trolling issues. Anyway, i am just saying people dont need to cleanout the TeamSpeak3 and create a rival clan every time they have a minor issue, that is their problem.

There was no reason for the last/current TeamSpeak3 cleanout. The guys did not need a server to play BF3 in squads. It was the choice of certain people to clean out the TeamSpeak3 and create yet another clan. I stopped the server from feedback from this forum, there is so many servers to play.

The results speak for themselves, an empty TeamSpeak3. I dont give a damn about playing with people any more. I still enjoy the game without VOIP.

The arguments are caused because of the poor game design. It is far too complicated the way it is and simply does not work.

I suggest GameArena consider themselves responsible, not with the intention of being malicious. If you sell a game that causes that much drama and damage to your following, the result is bad for you. Make sure that you consider things well before selling the next game.

Johnny you gave me a migraine.

The games have to have VOIP.

There still can be clans, ladders, rental servers but the games must have VOIP to work.

It is amazing to me that companies would push the limits so far.

A target player range of new zealand to asia, as in all of oceania is still fine for advertising.

I have no idea why companies would get so greedy.

There is no reason for anyone to lose.

Holy ****, this is amazing. If we could take your trolling technique to forums who have no previous experience with "johnny5" we could cause strokes/anxiety attacks to millions of neck beards and scene *** gamer circle jerks.

You honestly need to think when you type Johnny. All throughout this thread you've been contradicting your self and spewing utter garbage.

Your like the Westboro Church of Battlefield.

Of course i have been spewing out garbage, that is what computer game forums are for.

Moving on....

The GameArena ladders have never worked. I simply have no idea why GameArena thinks that is where the player base was. I repeat the ladders have never worked, but people did not mind because they had the option to play the public servers with VOIP.

You had multiple 64 player slot Battlefield 2 servers with VOIP going for 6 years but the Battlefield 2 ladders had 5 player teams.

Nobody has ever liked the "Teams" on the GameArena servers. I have no idea why people can not understand that.

The games are meant to be friendly and they simply are not. "Clans are the servers."

The "Teams" cause a lot of damage.

The "Teams" were ok, sort of bearable while the games had VOIP. It is the "Teams" that are stupid, and they simply did not realise they were playing against other people. I am quite a resilient player, i guarantee you there are a lot of people more **** off than me.

I dont mind the "Teams", that is why i have joined them in the past. Believe me i have tried to persuade people to join and people simply did not.

A very good clan server to play during BF2 was -=OMG=-. -=OMG=- was an excellent and friendly clan server to play. In BF3 there is no such thing because the game design ensures that only around 4-5 people in a 64 player slot server are using VOIP.

Anyway, there is no point in me trying to recruit players anymore. Seems all the advertising was for zero gain.

I simply will never speak to an online gamer again.

Anyway this forum is pointless.
It is impossible for me to play BF3 with voice communications.
In BF2 it was simple, all i had to do was join a server, which cost me nothing.
BF3 is a very expensive game.

It simply blows me away, that people do not understand what i am talking about.

you really are a moron johnny bf2 had a great ladder system that lasted for ages and there were plenty of people who pubbed. BF3 is just **** that is why its dieing so fast

I know it had better ladders than BF3.

But the BF2 servers lasted till BF3 release. A very long time.

"EA and Gamearena made me buy a whole pile of servers for a game I hate which didn't have VOIP from the start. They then forced me to continue paying for these servers and also my empty TS3 for x months! Then when I let everyone know about this horrible practice on the forums everyone flamed me, why am I the bad guy?"

I'd love to see a Vice doco on a day in the life of Johnny5.

Spark was worse then 3FL.

I dont know whether to shut this down or let it go any further.

This is the most bizarre outpouring of nonsense I think I have ever heard.

I feel sorry for the one pouring it out, and sorry for those reading it.
Its really got me this thread has.
I dont know what to do with it.