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Gamespy Shutdown
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Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:30 pmby TaTerToT
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1227460p1.html^ With this, will this mean the only SWBFII servers now can only be Dedicated? No PC servers?
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:34 pmby (SWGO)White-Wizard
Guess we wont know till it happens....
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:27 amby Splinter
I think Gamespy would be rather retarded to shut down servers, not only do they support swbf2 but other old games as well. I highly doubt they shut down servers, possibly the site but not the servers. They have way to many people playing and way to many people paying for those old games to do so.
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:11 amby (SWGO)DesertEagle
Um, key hashes are checked on the gamespy servers IIRC. So unless it's hacked to remove that, nobody will be able to play on servers. The problem is that there will be no way to ban people based on cd-key, it will have to be completely IP-based (i.e. firewall).
I hope someone's working on a workaround. Even if gamespy keeps the servers up, they are living on borrowed time as of right now.
Plus we will need a server browser, which will be much easier.
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:34 amby Darth Crater
The thing getting shut down is the part of GameSpy owned by IGN. The multiplayer service belongs to someone else and will not shut down (yet).
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:46 amby (SWGO)DesertEagle
Darth Crater wrote:The thing getting shut down is the part of GameSpy owned by IGN. The multiplayer service belongs to someone else and will not shut down (yet).
Whew, that's a relief.
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:46 pmby (SWGO)White-Wizard
Darth Crater wrote:The thing getting shut down is the part of GameSpy owned by IGN. The multiplayer service belongs to someone else and will not shut down (yet).
YAY!!
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:53 pmby JOGRaul
Crater thanks for giving us hope,:D i was scared!
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:05 pmby THEWULFMAN
Darth Crater wrote:The thing getting shut down is the part of GameSpy owned by IGN. The multiplayer service belongs to someone else and will not shut down (yet).
Can't honestly say I'm shocked IGN is involved.
Re: Gamespy Shutdown
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Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:09 pmby CommanderOtto
that means we can continue the slaughter in HA and JBA
