GameSpy Servers Shutting Down in May

[exfileme]

The end of an era draws near.

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[Quarkzquarkz]

In 1996, Quakworld was established and Gamespy took off. Who would've thought May 2014 would be it's demise? Just remarkable~ ^_^

 

[naqoyqatsi]

Let's get it on with the killing!

 

[jdog2pt0]

Bunch of dbags that Glu Mobile company is. Figured they killed GS when they bought it and screwed everyone over. Now I guess they're really making sure it's dead.

 

[lostalaska]

It might have been useful originally, but in the last decade it's turned into a reminder about the dangers of using a 3rd party piece of networking software for your game and how that can end up biting a game company in the ass. Good riddance you miserable POS.

 

[Dax corrin]

Pretty sure this will kill my Star Wars Battlefront 2 server.

 

[Kitlope]

Battlefield 1942 still uses gamespy, unless origin makes a program.

 

[coolitic]

DARN IT!Does this mean Crysis Warhead Multiplayer is going down too?

 

[Bean007]

The end of a great ride.

 

[signothorn]

To their credit, IGN has attempted to be helpful in the final stages of this transition. I was an admin at one of the "Planet" sites and those sites stopped being supported a few years ago. I relocated our community and recently we contacted IGN to see if they would be willing to negotiate a price for our old domain name and they simply gave it to us for free with very few questions. It was really kind of them, I thought.

 

[hythos]

OH the awesome, awesome times of Bastard's Beatdown!Thanks for everything, Mark!

 

[MalakiArtook]

Oh well :/

 

[Master467]

tfw halo PC servers will die D:

 

[belardo]

GameSpy has sucked for a long time. A better way has been needed for a long time. I guess that maybe Steam. But with UT3, it was REALLY in your face about "logging on" in order for the damn UT3 to properly load the settings (not a default)... and it was such crap that they also helped cause the failure of UT3.

I haven't played online with UT3 for a long while because gamespy has messed up my account and won't take my password. Maybe EPIC will do a patch... maybe Epic will make UT4 and do it RIGHT.