Download.com

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The website download.com is popular, Alexa rates it as the 117th most visited site. They offer a download of Nexuiz (http://msn-cnet.com.com/Nexuiz/3000-7453_4-10424770.html)

This must be an outdated version, at 158 MB. and being uploaded over a year ago.. I know there are better sites to download Nexuiz from (sourceforge.net), but download.com is visited by many people, so they should have a current version of nexuiz available to download.

I tried the upload process and it involves a lot of jumping through hoops. Does anyone know who originally uploaded to the site? I think it is kind of important to update the site, so anyone who spends their time downloading Nexuiz fom this slow site can be rewarded.

When it was originally uploaded, Nexuiz was an Editor's Choice, but too many bad reviews (http://msn-cnet.com.com/Nexuiz/3640-7453_4-10424770.html?pn=3&sb=0&v=0 made them change their mind and silently revoke their editor's choice award.

[esteel]

They offer version 1.1

How can one actually submit new versions or new games? The whole site looks like a mess to me

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To submit to Download.com, one must visit Upload.com
that is where the fun begins.

[esteel]

Nexuiz 1.5 is also available from download.com. http://www.download.com/Nexuiz/3000-742 ... ml?tag=pub
How the hell do they manage versions? Also the two publishers 'Alientrap' for both downloads are not the same.. so even if you click on the publisher for each of the two download you can not see the other version.
I would hate to add an third download esp. with the upcoming 2.0.1 patch.
Is here anyone more used to download.com and can tell us how to best solve this?

[Ed]

download.com is a total mess. Useless. Best source for out of date stuff that's a security risk. All of the GPL stuff could be better sourced from the authors. Typical 'not-really-free-spyware-infested-tat' offered as well.

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I agree, Ed, but Download.com logged 52 downloads of Nexuiz 1.1 last week, and Nexuiz 1.5 was downloaded over 200 times. Those numbers are most likely an overstatement, but still it means that people are clicking on it and trying to get Nexuiz through this channel.

We need to help those people.

[eightysix]

vesiontracker doesnt have nex at all whch really surprised me. Lots of this stuff needs to be done manually. ill put nex on macgamefiles as soon as 2.0.1 comes out. (I did for 1.2)

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

Download.com is as famous as a blue-striped dog (or snoop dog)! It even came with my Opera bookmarks! I wouldnt mind some old nexuiz servers but, well... am a weirdo. They should lock the old versions or at least have some warning that says "OUTDATED!" cause i mean that gives bad credit to Nexuiz!

[upQuark]

When it was originally uploaded, Nexuiz was an Editor's Choice, but too many bad reviews (http://msn-cnet.com.com/Nexuiz/3640-7453_4-10424770.html?pn=3&sb=0&v=0 made them change their mind and silently revoke their editor's choice award.

This comes at no surprise to me. I suspect many of the bad reviews come from people playing outdated versions of Nexuiz - yet another reason why an updated version of Nexuiz needs to go onto Download.com!

EDIT: Is anyone trying to get Nexuiz 2.0 up using Upload.com? Because if no one is I'll give it a go on the weekend.

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Hi Dave,

I looked up the contact information for your company, and it turns out that Lee Vermeulen is currently the manager of the products
found on our download sites. Since we can only have one person manage company products via Upload.com, I recommend that
you contact that person (lvermeulen@shaw.ca) for access to the account.

The account owner can change the current login email address to a new one via the "Update account information"
link found in the right hand corner of the Upload Manager page. After the email address is changed, any password issues can
be resolved via the following URL: http://www.upload.com/1328-21-5.html. I also deleted the record for the email address, so that it can be used to replace the existing email address in the Upload account without any problems.

If for some reason you cannot contact the current account owner, please let me know so that I can look at an alternative
method of getting access for you.

Sukhrob
Customer Service
CNET Publisher Services

I kind of wish that they had asked/warned me before deleting my account, but Sukhrob was just trying to help.