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PC Gamers / Re: PC Gaming Dead in OK?
« on: October 17, 2011, 03:34:25 pm »
It doesnt help when companies like blizzard decided to make big titles like Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 non-lanable.

We simply started hosting our LAN at a data center to negate this issue. We usually just jump into a random server as a group and play. Had eight people playing SC2 at the October LAN no problem (Other than me getting my butt kicked over and over.)

We also buy server hosting occasionally. One of the other guys ran a BC2 server for several months. I hosted a Black Ops one for about six months and have a BF3 64-slot preordered.

The crazy thing is that we have gotten to be small and extremely close knit in the OKGG. There are really only about 8 of us that are guaranteed to be there but it's always fun regardless. We had a couple of regulars bring friends for this last LAN and all three of the "new" guys are already signed up for the November LAN.

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PC Gamers / PC Gaming Dead in OK?
« on: October 12, 2011, 10:23:46 am »
I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a lot of PC talk anywhere these days so I thought I'd ask about this. As some of you probably know I'm the PR guy for the Oklahoma Gamer's Group (www.okgg.org) a monthly PC LAN party in Oklahoma City. I've kept our listing fairly up on the event schedule here for the last six months or so, but we've only gotten a couple people to come out for it.

So basically my curiousity comes down to:
Are there still PC gamers in Oklahoma or have we become a rare breed?
For those that are PC gamers, why are you/aren't you interested in attending a LAN party?

Basically I'm just trying to figure out if there's still a PC gamer crowd of decent size out there and if so, what we need to do to draw you guys to the LAN.

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October 15th LAN is coming up, head to www.okgg.org and sign up!

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OKGG LAN party is on Saturday (14th)! Head to okgg.org, sign up, and come play!

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Sign up is now open for the June 18, 2011 LAN party.

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Also, we're in the middle of considering some things to bring up attendance and make overall improvements to the LAN party, if anybody has any suggestions or constructive criticism please feel free.

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Just another update/bump.

OKGG LAN is next Saturday (5/21) at the location listed in the first post. Head over to the forums, sign up, and come get your frag on. We're going retro this time around and throwing Battlefield 2 into the mix as a warmup for BF3 in August. Will likely be playing many other games as well. Brink, Supreme Commander 2, Homefront, Black Ops, and Bad Company 2 spring to mind.

Sign up at www.okgg.org

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Hey everybody, just wanted to bump this and let everyone know that I've updated the first post in the thread with info about our new location.

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Again to Timmy.

I apologize if you were flamed about console gaming.

But from what I'm seeing now that I looked your posts up on our boards, you were flamed because you essentially jumped on our forums and started advertising. Something quite similar to what spambots do. If you had come along and asked "Hey, anybody interested in coming to a LAN on such and such date?" and then gone from there, providing details later, it likely would have helped.

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IM OPENING A LAN CENTER AND WE ARE HAVING A LAN TOURNAMENT JUNE 28TH! TRYING TO GET THIS INFO OUT THERE TO THE PUBLIC 64 GAMERS ALREADY SIGNED UP. IT WILL BE A MULTI GAME MULTI SYSTEM TOURNAMENT PLEASE GET BACK WITH ME FOR MORE INFO

MYSPACE.COM/OKCLANCENTER
OKGAMERS.COM

Not a big deal, CAPS is annoying, but oh well. Some of our members didn't appreciate that you came to our boards solely to advertise and not to participate. I'd like to point out that of all of the people that replied to your initial spam post, only 1 was actually someone that regularly attends the LAN. The other sticking point was the similarity in name. But whatever, who cares.

The real problem was incited when a friend of yours came to our board and started ranting at us. Again, not that big of a deal. We rant at each other all the time.

But I just want this to be clear. The main reason that any flaming occurred was because your initial post on our board was essentially the same as something a spam bot would have thrown at us. As I said in my previous post, there are members of our LAN that play console games, we just don't do them. Admittedly, most of us believe PC gaming to be superior. I'll say it myself, PCs are the superior platform, there are numerous reasons for that. Regardless, I own a 360, PS3, Wii, and DSi. But it's an argument that will never stop if we start it, so I'm not getting into it. People have their preferences.

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- Timmy
Sorry to hear that. We're pretty much PC exclusive, I can only think of one person other than myself that attends our LAN that even owns a console. Let alone plays regularly or online. I'd be a liar if I said that I probably wasn't one of the people harassing you. Thing is that we generally don't mean such things in outright hostility. We've been such a close knit group for so long that we tend to treat new people like we treat each other. We flame and harass one another constantly, though it's all in good natured fun and none of us take it seriously. If you have a PC and can game, show up! We'd be glad to have you. You'd probably get newbie flak, but we're all actually quite friendly. The core group of players actually spends most of their free time together. 5-6 of us show up for a Thursday night LAN every week at one of the guy's house. We go out to the gun range together every month, and do a lot of other random crap as a group.

- Furyswrath
I'm not sure when you were around OLP. I started attending it when I was 15 or 16 I believe, so it's been around ten years since I first started going. I'm trying to think of old players that are still around... Sevnn, Menos, Scope, Drix, and Nimda (who used to go by kaos) are still either actively coming or somewhat involved. Everyone is still in OK except for Nimda, he moved to Chicago several years back. Brules may be another name you'd know. He attends occasionally, but moved to Arkansas. Despite still comes sometimes and is active on the forums. You should come out sometime, if nothing else just to see if you run into anybody you know. I know for a fact that Menos has been around since before OLP, he goes back to the GamersLAN days.

- Forgotten Heathen
We meet at the Yukon Roundup Club. It's a white and red building with a rodeo ground behind it. It's off of main street (66). The actual address is 600 E Main. It's right up the street from the bowling alley about half a mile west of Mustang Road. Lately we've been sticking with L4D, CoD4:MW, CoD:WaW, IL2: Sturmovik, and occasionally Supreme Commander or Quake 3. UT3 get's played here and there as well. If you'd like to come out (it's tomorrow) head over to http://www.okgg.org and sign-up. Doesn't make a difference really if you don't, but the guy that organizes things is kinda OCD about it :P

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Update!

As is mentioned farther down in this thread, the OKGG has moved. We're now located in NW OKC near 122nd and MacArthur. The new location is a bit smaller than the old one, but we still need more people to fill it up. We still run every third Saturday from 10AM until approximately midnight.

The new location is nice and clean (it's actually a data center/webhosting location.) It's nicely located near several restaurants and convenience stores with plenty of parking.

One of the biggest problems we had in Yukon was internet access, as more and more games rolled over to Steam and other digital distribution systems it was something of an issue to be on a line-of-sight wireless internet connection. That issue has been resolved as we're now on a pretty nice connection (mainly due to the company that's hosting us being a data center, lots of bandwidth :D)

We're still charging just $10 for LAN entry, this is almost exclusively to pay the host location for the space/bandwidth/electricity.

These days most gaming revolves around Black Ops but many other games are played and suggestions are also welcome. Regular games include but are not limited to: Black Ops, Supreme Commander 2, StarCraft 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (And Vietnam), we even still throw down some FlatOut 2 on occassion.

If you're interested in attending PM me here on OKGamers or sign up for the LAN and for the forums at http://www.okgg.org

Old Stuff

The OKGG is a LAN held on the third Saturday of every month in Yukon.

We're essentially PC exclusive. Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty: WaW, Left 4 Dead, Supreme Commander, Flatout, IL2: Sturmovik, and just about anything else that someone suggests.

We're a friendly group, the core members of the LAN, most of the staff actually, have been involved in this LAN party in one way or another for about ten years. We used to be the OLP, held in Shepard Mall back in the late 90's and early part of this millenium. OKGG itself has been around since approximately 2003.

Due to life events and such many of our members are no longer coming, so our usual monthly attendance has dropped from ~25 to around 12-15. We're looking to find new people to come and join the fun on a regular basis. There are raffled prizes fairly often, things ranging from Corsair stickers to full 4GB (2x2GB) memory kits, it just depends on the month and how our sponsors feel like being. The facility is isolated, so noise is not a problem. Alcohol is allowed as well.

If you'd like more information or to chat with anyone, head to http://www.okgg.org and join our forums or sign up.

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