Talk:LAN party/Archives/2015

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I Removed the line:

Recently LAN party events have been under scrutiny due to copyright violation claims as many LAN attendees share copyrighted content.[2]

Because it does not reference any documentented 'scrutiny', but rather a simple study that shows piracy is prevalent at lan parties. Until there is documented 'scrutiny' going on, this is simply not true. I advise the OP to look up scrutiny in a dictionary. 71.40.113.30 21:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The page states that Assembly demo party is the second largest party - but this is actually The Gathering AFAIK. Should this be changed?

lanparty.com has started updating again, so I'm removing the "slightly out of date" notation, which now that I think about it shouldn't have been there to begin with.

Added lanpartycoalition.com to the external links section..its updated more often than lanparty.com (which should be removed if they don't start updating it soon, they haven't published a new article in several years and haven't published any news since June/July)

Removed the teamslack link; I don't think we should be linking every lanparty team in existence (since that article would be really really long and really really dull, next to being useless). Notably big and regular ones, maybe, or ones of historic interest. For the others, there should be a couple of the "big" portals (I tried with lansurfer and lanparty.com, not sure whether there are better ones in the US) that should lead interested people to all the small parties as well. If that's not the consensus, I have a list of 30-40 regular parties just in and around my hometown :)

As for The Gathering, I always thought of it as deeply rooted in the demo-scene -- is that assessment wrong nowadays ?

Eike 12:46, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)

• I too was considering removing the link. It looked more like someone's pet lan party page than a "professional" one. →Raul654 15:03, Jan 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • It shouldnt matter if it loooks professional or not. (66.124.227.108)
    • In such a case as this, where the number of LAN related pages on the internet far outstrips the number we are willing to put in the external links section (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - "Wikipedia is not a link repository"), we have to descriminate based on something. We would eprefer to put the links to famous/notable LAN party organizers. So like I said, no offense, but it looks like someone's pet page rather than the above. →Raul654 01:33, Jan 14, 2004 (UTC)
      • LAN Addict has a few "LAN Guides" that might be useful to add (with their permission of course).

Games Played?

Hey, I was wondering if there should be a section added that pertains to some of the games that are played. At major LAN Parties they may mostly play LAN type games like Team Fortress 2, Quake, and Unreal Tournament, but at Smaller LANs like that at people’s homes, I feel like any game is welcome as long as everyone plays. I have attended many self-held LAN parties, nearly every weekend at friend's homes as well as my own. At these events, we played all types of games like Battlefield 3, World of Warcraft, Minecraft, Skyrim, GTA V, and many others. Should there be a section that covers games played? There could be a chart with popular games that are "true" LAN games like Halo or Unreal Tournament that require no internet connection and then maybe a column of popular internet LAN games, Like WOW and CS Go and Battlefield? There can also be a possible column of games that are played that aren’t competitive like Minecraft or single player campaign games (GTA V, Skyrim, Watchdogs, or Metro Last Light)??? The Single Player Games are not a priority but I think there should be at least some information about games that are played! Dewmanlou (talk) 18:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

There should not be. There's no good reason for it. At most, the article should only broadly mention the types of games that are played. That information could be added, especially when it's not intuitive (like single-player games). 72.200.151.15 (talk) 14:20, 6 December 2015 (UTC)