EA on GameSpy: Investigating Community-Supported Options

[exfileme]

EA is looking into preserving the old favorites.

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[LandoVash]

Forgive me for possibly not understanding the implication behind the GameSpy shutdown, but does this mean you can no longer host a multiplayer game on these titles between friends say on Origin or Steam not using GameSpy? (Can not say I ever used the GameSpy service)

 

[Zepid]

Forgive me for possibly not understanding the implication behind the GameSpy shutdown, but does this mean you can no longer host a multiplayer game on these titles between friends say on Origin or Steam not using GameSpy? (Can not say I ever used the GameSpy service)

Gamespy was the service that hosted thousands of titles for multiple studios/publishers - not just EA.

Examples of such popular games would include Battlefield 2 and Battlefront 2, which you can no longer play until some other service decides to pick them up.

 

[ya right]

junkspy should not have been coded INTO the games, as such anyone coding services INTO a game is a fkn glu bag!

Quit making junk ware EA!

 

[ya right]

junkspy should not have been coded INTO the games, as such anyone coding services INTO a game is a fkn glu bag!

Quit making junk ware EA!

 

[memadmax]

Here's the thing.
Yes, these games are old, but that helps in keeping them alive.
Since there isn't really that many people playing these games(last time I was on MOHAA there was only like 20 people there lol), why not just take the server, virtualize it, and have it live on a server that is doing other things.

 

[coolitic]

Yeah, but each of the Crysis games are nothing like each other, so it's not like there are new versions to it.

I know the awesome gameplay of Crysis Wars was replaced probably to prevent competition with Battlefield series, but there could have been other solutions to that.

 

[jasonelmore]

i'm really gonna miss crysis wars. It was like the "battlefield 3" years before battlefield 3 came out. So many good memories of that game.

 

[Azt3ck]

You really want to fix this problem Game Devs. Let people run there own servers. That is when gaming was fun. You were able to have your own server to mod, kick players and set your server for a clan war. I've been to LANParties and games we were supposed to play we couldn't cause server was down for maintenance. Really? If we could host our own servers again we wouldn't have this problem.

 

[Darkk]

Here is my take on this. EA already made their money on the initial titles and no longer make business sense to keep the old game going under the current platform. So open source it and let the community take over. This way older players like me still can enjoy the old games with some interesting mods and twists without the burden on EA so they can focus on developing new games.

Games like Unreal Tournament III and Counterstrike are good examples. Both are great games and still fun to play with online players even tho the publisher no longer maintains it. Over the years they came up with some interesting mods and boards that just keeps me want to play it even more.

 

[chicofehr]

How many of these games support LAN. A few computes and some real friends and it would still work fine. I only do LAN so I never used any of these online services anyway. I think they should give the fans of the old games the source code so they can add the ability to use any server they want. There are many good programmers who will do it for the love of their game.

 

[spartanmk2]

But LAN support is soooo last decade people, c'mon, dont you want to always be online so you can compare your "stats" to other people you dont know and get those "achievements" that reset after patches??

Garbage company.

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

You really want to fix this problem Game Devs. Let people run there own servers. That is when gaming was fun. You were able to have your own server to mod, kick players and set your server for a clan war. I've been to LANParties and games we were supposed to play we couldn't cause server was down for maintenance. Really? If we could host our own servers again we wouldn't have this problem.

Probably the reason this doesn't happen is because of piracy; It would make it too easy for pirates to fully play games they pirate. Again, pirates are the reason why we can't have nice things.

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

Here is my take on this. EA already made their money on the initial titles and no longer make business sense to keep the old game going under the current platform. So open source it and let the community take over. This way older players like me still can enjoy the old games with some interesting mods and twists without the burden on EA so they can focus on developing new games.

Games like Unreal Tournament III and Counterstrike are good examples. Both are great games and still fun to play with online players even tho the publisher no longer maintains it. Over the years they came up with some interesting mods and boards that just keeps me want to play it even more.

Companies are not going to give up their trade secrets and essentially let people commit massive industrial espionage against them. Honestly, I don't know why John Carmack makes his work open source.