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World Largest LAN Party Opens 29

Posted by Zonk
Sixblade writes "The world's largest LAN party opend its doors this morning. With more than 6200 places, Dreamhack should be quite fun. Check out the webcams, Arwen, Eowyn, Haldir and Beren"
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World Largest LAN Party Opens

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  • Why not just meet on the internet? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 25, 2004 @02:32PM (#10919270)
    With so many participants, one of the main attractions of a LAN party is gone, the friendly competitive interaction. If #52 and #6101 frag each other how likely is it they will interact much irl at this event?

    This event is to a LAN party as the Super Bowl is to a friendly neighborhood backyard football game.

    • Re:Why not just meet on the internet? (Score:5, Informative)

      by The Evil Couch ( 621105 ) on Thursday November 25, 2004 @03:02PM (#10919479) Homepage
      kind of. part of the attraction is meeting new people or people that you only know by their handle. being surrounded by a crap load of fellow geeks in the flesh can be a great opportunity to meet new people.

      in more than one large LAN, I ran into people that were a friend of a friend of a friend, that I thought were pretty cool and would likely not have met otherwise.

      true, playing games isn't as close as it is in a smaller scale LAN, but in larger LANs, people tend to keep joining the same servers, often with people physically located near them, making it more of a bonus to have more people than a detriment.

    • While it's true 'one' of the main attractions is gone, there is still a lot of fun to be had.

      I've been to a 620 person lan party (PDX Lan in Portland Oregon) and it was a wonderful time!

      You also end up with a sense of community with the people directly arround you within the first day if your willing to talk to people.

    • LAN War (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Flame0001 ( 818040 )
      I think it's the anonymity of the event that really counts. You could very well recreate a very large scale war with 6k people participating. After all, during war, about how many people are you going to know personally?

      If all these computers were hooked up to a central server, and had some extremely modded version of say... Battlefield 1942 running on each computer, imagine the chaos of war that would be happening on each screen! It could be a real-life representation of what the war was like, ignoring

    • True, but you still have the chance to meet new people. I have gone to several large LANs, and even if you get fragged by people you don't know and never see, you are still having fun with your friends. Plus if you want to know who they are that bad, just ask them in game.
    • I dunno, but it's great when you frag someone and hear a "FUCK!" from the otherside of the building. 8)
    • I concur. If the players are too far apart to hit each other with empty beer cans, it's no longer a LAN Party. Maybe we've reached the point where old farts like me can talk about Old School LAN Party Creds.

  • Strange... (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    The two cameras named after female characters are completely slashdotted, yet the other two are fine. Coincidence?
  • I think this should become the never-ending LAN party, ala Douglas Adam's never-ending party in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide.

  • not just a LAN gaming party (Score:4, Interesting)

    by spir0 ( 319821 ) on Thursday November 25, 2004 @06:43PM (#10920673) Homepage Journal
    what I like about these events in Europe is that they are also demo parties, like Assembly [assembly.fi] in Finland.

    There is some info on Dreamhack's site about the demoscene [dreamhack.se] portion of the party.

    All in all, being stuck on the other end of the planet (I'm in New Zealand), I'm very jealous of the demo sceners and the parties that go on in Europe.
    • I'm in New Zeland too, I suspect some day I should like to organise a trip to such an event. In Christchurch I know a good number of people who are into the scene, as some have presented an interest in getting into the demo competitions.
      • I didn't know anyone in NZ was into making demos. It might have motivated me years ago... e me so we don't troll on here too much. I'd be into going over to one of these parties too..

        spiro.harvey at gmail
    • I agree. I am in the US (Ohio), and there is absolutely no demoscene here. Actually, that is an overstatement, as there is one annual party in Salt Lake City. But for the most part it is non-existent... And in Ohio, TOTALLY non-existent.

      To make matters worse is that when I try to show people some of the amazing demos which I respect and adore so much they often just don't get it.

      "What is the point?"
      "Who would spend so much time doing this for free?"
      "That was weird."
      "You actually like this stuff?"
      "What
      • You'd be shocked to learn that in some countries you can't walk in the streets without hitting on a copper bar or get aggressed by a rotating cube.
      • You're telling me.

        Go ahead and 'X' out Washington DC on your map, for being a demo-scene-free-zone. There are sceners here and there, but not enough to get anything going... even back in 1993.

        At this rate, I'll probably sooner see Second Reality displayed at the Smithsonian than at the convention center. :(

        *sigh*.. Sometimes I feel like I am in a culture less vacuum.

        I tried to live in the Athens/Coolesville area for all of 9 weeks. Sadly, some parts of your beautiful state seem to be vaccuum for, we
  • And not a woman in sight....
  • Keep the LAN smallish, or at least in small groups. At a big LAN the only people you'll associate with are the people you already know.

    Lan party in Adelaide SA Dec 11 [slashdot.org]
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