Anyone here ever ran a LAN party in the works office?

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I was thinking the other day, quite a few here probably work in I.T Jobs with office access. Big wealthy companys with nice overspecced PCs capable of more than just office work! ;)

Surely it's the perfect place for a lads night in playing games?
 
We did it at Christmas some years, usually bring our own computers in though as the graphics at work aren't up to it. Just 'borrow' one of the switches rather than using the built in network points an having to configure ports. Much Unreal, Doom and Need for Speed got played. We are all 'technically' on call, so quite amusing when someone comes into he office with a problem, they usually forgot their problem and ask for a shot of the game instead.
 
I've been to one in a school pc suite and a business office, in both cases we brought our own pc's and plugged into the network.
 
Depends on the company. If its remotely professional I doubt they'd be happy for you to be installing software on their machines.
 
Couldn't even if we wanted to, which begs the question, why would you want to spend your leisure time at your place of work?
 
highly doubt companies are running overspecced pc's to be honest...not unless it was a games designing company..hrmmm :D
 
blky said:
highly doubt companies are running overspecced pc's to be honest...not unless it was a games designing company..hrmmm :D
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I work in software development and our PCs couldn't handle any remotely interesting games. On board graphics etc. Machines bought on a budget.
 
Back in the 90s when I was at school the new IT suite was capable of running games like Doom2, Quake 2 etc and I convinced the IT dept to let us have an after-school session as "a bid to get more people interested in IT".
 
Used to do it all the time but had to take our own pcs in as i doubt there are many offices with even medium spec computers, even a powerfull server worth tens of thousands of pounds would have any decent graphics or even be setup for gaming.

It was actually one of our directors ideas, sort of team building via deathmatch.
 
Ours can just about run Diablo II and Halflife. Used to run Eve Online before they updated the graphics requirements for it.

We used to play it on nights, weekends on on our breaks and the bosses didn't care as long as the work was done.

New boss came in and locked down the USB ports on all PC's so we can't do it anymore :( Best we get now is browser games :(
 
Use to do it every lunchtime at the council (many years ago :P )

Quake baby! barely a network back then though, no chance of anyone allowing that now :)
 
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