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[AMIgaBot]

2weeks ago i emailed EA sports why dune was down.  today i got reply

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There comes more games i asked my friend (online departement) why dune is down he think its taking much of the breedband's so they shutted it down because there come new games

But Buy C&C Generals + Zerohour (Dubblepack 30 Euro here) nice game,online will shut down in 7-10 years ;)

Jesper

----- Original Message -----

From: Adam

To: Jesper Pruiksma

Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:10 PM

Subject: Re: Ok what time?

oh cool. i have question.  ask EA what doing with dune2000 online, why they is still down.

----- Original Message -----

From: Jesper Pruiksma

To: Adam

Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:52 PM

Subject: Re: Ok what time?

No i work for just the adventure and action stuff not ea sports i telled them about the dune bug but they said:

doesn't matter Jesper we aren't making new updates for it.... maybe we sould make a dune 2005....... :P

but if u got XP why shall we both buy Battlefield 2 in dec. 2005 Cool m8 i worked on it 2

see ya later

----- Original Message -----

From: Adam

To: Jesper Pruiksma

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:12 PM

Subject: Re: Ok what time?

u told me u are from EA sports. u know all about c&c games and about dune.  ask EA  staff why dune is down. also do you know about bug in dune2000 what allow u to build on white sand?

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[erjin999]

Too much bandwidth ?

For a game with a few people on it ? No, I dont believe it was bandwidth, it might have been something else, but...no, not bandwidth.

[AMIgaBot]

theat game was old, there was many reasons why they got down :/ 

1. bandwith (abused because dos attacks)

2. game was too old.

3.  many players played that game but they not eoungh to maintenain it longer.

4.server and bandwdth was wasted .

[erjin999]

point 3 seems the most likely for me, the effort to reset it should it go wrong and that kind of thing, most likely.

[Andrew]

That came from an employee of EA?

The grammar and such is not very good for a person involved with public relations...

[erjin999]

Andrew, where did it say he works for public relations ? I missed that.

I did wonder about the language, but I figured he worked for EA in another country.  :-

[Andrew]

In order to contact someone from EA, wouldn't you have to email the company?

AMIgaBot said he e-mailed EA sports, so I would think they have someone in PR or in some way someone who can communicate effectively. Unless AMIgaBot informally knows the contact.

It hurt reading the post. ;)

Maybe he was working in another country or if AMIgaBot is outside North America then the e-mail may have went to workers in a similiar country. Must be.

[erjin999]

There comes more games i asked my friend (online departement) why dune is down he think its taking much of the breedband's so they shutted it down because there come new games

But Buy C&C Generals + Zerohour (Dubblepack 30 Euro here) nice game,online will shut down in 7-10 years ;)

Jesper

The reply from his friend

u told me u are from EA sports. u know all about c&c games and about dune. ask EA staff why dune is down. also do you know about bug in dune2000 what allow u to build on white sand?

His initial email to his friend.

I am assuming its a friend who works for EA..well so sort of thats what it says, unless I am really mistaken.

[Gobalopper]

AMIgaBot = syczek = lives in poland

Hence the language issue.

[erjin999]

I think we are more confused about whether it is his friend who works for EA, or a friends friend, or just a EA Company Representitive/PR Person.

[Andrew]

Sure. I figured AMIgaBot was from poland by the email adress, wasnt sure where the EA guy was from, or something.

Because if it was a representative from North America responding to AMIgaBot, I would think the English would be better. Assuming the messages above were not translated by AMIgaBot.