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[RRS]

And why is that so obvious? You don't believe in sharing? Besides mobygames site has higher chance of survival as abandonia may be someday called old-warez site by some fanatic lawyer working for some big time company. You should create a fake-user "Abandonia" and share at least part of abandonia resources. That "user" can have link to your site in profile as a way of promoting the site etc. Don't worry, abandonia would still have exclusive material to draw people in (moby's don't host games, after all ;D )

[TotalAnarchy]

Originally Posted by RRS

And why is that so obvious? You don't believe in sharing? Besides mobygames site has higher chance of survival as abandonia may be someday called old-warez site by some fanatic lawyer working for some big time company. You should create a fake-user "Abandonia" and share at least part of abandonia resources. That "user" can have link to your site in profile as a way of promoting the site etc. Don't worry, abandonia would still have exclusive material to draw people in (moby's don't host games, after all ;D )

What I don't believe in is you gaining mobypoints with the help of other people's hard work. And about sharing: I always thought this phenomena goes in both directions. When only one part is the one giving - it's called leeching.

[RRS]

Originally Posted by TotalAnarchy

What I don't believe in is you gaining mobypoints with the help of other people's hard work.

I beg your pardon - where did I say I want to do that? I was wondering if those items can be shared by original uploader or by abandonia itself (and I gave an example of a "generic user" representing the whole site).

Better change that tone, mister, if you don't want to find yourself alone someday here on the boards. See, The Fifth Horseman managed to explain everything to the point - and without stepping on anybody's toes.

[TotalAnarchy]

Originally Posted by RRS

I beg your pardon - where did I say I want to do that? I was wondering if those items can be shared by original uploader or by abandonia itself (and I gave an example of a "generic user" representing the whole site).

Better change that tone, mister, if you don't want to find yourself alone someday here on the boards. See, The Fifth Horseman managed to explain everything to the point - and without stepping on anybody's toes.

Ok, ok, I've misread your post. I'm sorry. But you must understand that such a move of creating a fake user on moby and uploading boxshots will not direct to us substantial traffic. Please consider this also: Abandonia and Mobygames have the same age, in other words they were founded in 1999 (of course, AB wasn't on its own hosting until at a later time), thus their chance of survival is equal. I doubt the site will be closed by outside factors, and even if it will be closed, the material will still be stored somewhere.

What I'm trying to say is that we don't gain a thing from uploading our stuff on other sites, we only lose.

[TotalAnarchy]

BTW, there are a couple of games on AB and not on moby. For whoever is interested here is the list of all of them to make your work easier.

Tennis Cup (the game is not listed on moby, very interesting is that the second part is listed) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/85/Tennis+Cup.html
Mystery at the Museums (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/22...e+Museums.html
Superspeed Deluxe (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/47...ed+Deluxe.html
Assault Trooper (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/48...t+Trooper.html
Star Lord (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/671/Star+Lord.html
Operation Frog (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/69...tion+Frog.html
Little People Farm (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/69...ople+Farm.html
Diamond Ball 3 (the game is not listed on moby)http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/69...nd+Ball+3.html
Sixx (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/700/Sixx.html
Bicycle Holiday (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/70...e+Holiday.html
Micro League Wrestling 2 (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/71...estling+2.html
Super Nibbly (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/719/Super+Nibbly.html
Little People Main Street (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/719/Super+Nibbly.html
Mission UFO - A Solar System Odyssey (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/73...m+Odyssey.html
Football Manager 3 (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/79...Manager+3.html
Final Frontier (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/83...+Frontier.html
DStroy (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/832/DStroy.html
Amazing Maze (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/891/Amazing+Maze.html
F1 World Championship Edition (no DOS version on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/89...p+Edition.html
Ruckus Poker (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/904/Ruckus+Poker.html
Peter Pan and Robin Hood Fairy Tale Factory (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/91...e+Factory.html
Reach Out For Gold (the game is not listed on moby, I have a hunch that it has smth in common with AMI32 title Summer Olympix) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/91...+For+Gold.html
Dinosaur Safari (the game is not listed on moby, the developer is probably Creative Multimedia Corporation, not Mindscape as shown on our page. The publisher is correct) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/93...ur+Safari.html
Silverball 1995 aka Silverball Plus 2 (the game is not listed on moby, but smth about it is mentioned in the descrpt. of the main game) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/10...ball+1995.html
Chadwick and the Sneaky Egg Thief (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/10...Egg+Thief.html
Pocahontas (the game is not listed on moby, dunno about this one, it's quite different from Disney's Pocahontas for GEN/GB) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/1042/Pocahontas.html
Black Hole (the game is not listed on moby, not to confuse with The Black Hole for ZXS) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/1051/Black+Hole.html
Lost City of Atlantis, The (the game is not listed on moby, we ourselves have only a german version) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/10...is%2C+The.html
Backgammon (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/23320/Backgammon.html
Cold Dreams (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24...ld+Dreams.html
Nickelodeon Director's Lab (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24...ctors+Lab.html
Three Fold (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24492/Three+Fold.html
Digger Remastered (the game is not listed on moby, different from both 1983's and 1992's Digger) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24...emastered.html
Jungle Jack (the game is not listed on moby, you'll have to find the original danish name for this, I think it's Jungledyret Hugo) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25...ngle+Jack.html
School Bus Driver (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25...us+Driver.html
Ping & Kooky's Cuckoo Zoo (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25...uckoo+Zoo.html
Goonies, The (no PC version listed) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25...uckoo+Zoo.html
Pacmania (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/940/Pacmania.html
The Abbey of Montglane (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25...ne%2C+The.html
International Ninja Rabbits aka Ninja Rabbit Returns (the game is not listed on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25...a+Rabbits.html
Manhole (the game is not listed on moby, not to be confused with the adventure The Manhole) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/26267/Manhole.html
Quik the Thunder Rabbit (no DOS version on moby) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/26...er+Rabbit.html

[TotalAnarchy]

Like I explained earlier to bobinator, the info you'll be submitting to moby except the release info should be written/made by yourself. In other words, don't copy-paste it from us. Neither we, nor they will be happy.

[RRS]

Just FYI, Abandonia reviews have been wiped out from Mobygames.

[TotalAnarchy]

Originally Posted by RRS

Just FYI, Abandonia reviews have been wiped out from Mobygames.

Yeah, I know. I was the one that first mentioned it on the Moby forums I also lost more than half of my MobyPoints because of that (the AB removal from Mobyranks), which I'm about to get back by contributing 2 more games full with screens etc and additional stuff.

[marko river]

I also noticed that. Why? What happened? I don't like it

[BostonGeorge]

I think their explanation was that ABs reviews are written way too subjective and that in most cases the reviewer score is not representative enough for a "moby rank". Well, this is true in some kind of way but I do really enjoy most of ABs reviews though.