End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

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End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#1 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:42 am

From the CEO of Bohemia Interactive:

Important notice: effective May 31, 2014, Gamespy will cease providing all hosted services for all games.

This is going to affect multiplayer in our games that use Gamespy for matchmaking, cd keys authentification and NAT traversal from Arma: Resistance to Arma 3. We are planning to introduce an alternative solution using Steam to Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead and Arma 3 users.

Other games (Take On Helicopters, Arma 2, Arma 2: Free, Arma, Arma: Cold War Assault) will have more limited multiplayer experience with loss of server browser, cd key authentification and NAT traversal systems. That said, direct IP connection to servers should work even after Gamespy services are no longer available.

We apologize for any inconvenience.


Gamespy provides server listing services for over 300 games including Halo. While direct IP connections will still work, CD-key authentication and listing features will not. Below is a list of some of the top games Gamespy lists for. While most of them are older, the result of Gamespy shut down will result in a death blow to many legacy PC gamers.

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Alien vs Predator (Classic)
Alien vs Predator 2
ARMA
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Call of Duty
Call of Duty United Offense
Call of Duty 2
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
Civilization III
Commandos 2
Commandos 3
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Behind the Call of Duty
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes Tales of Valor
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis Wars
Far Cry
Halo
Hexen
Hexen 2
Jagged Alliance
Jagged Alliance 2
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Medieval Total War
Medieval Total War 2
Multiwinia
Quake 2
Quake 3
Quake 4
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Postal 2
Shogun Total War
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune 2
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Star Wars Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Academy
Star Wars Republic Commando
SWAT 2
SWAT 3
SWAT 4
Titan Quest
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
(Starsiege) Tribes
Tribes 2
Tribes Vengeance
Two Worlds
Two Worlds 2
Unreal Gold
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40K: Soulstorm
Warhammer 40K: Winter Assault
Unreal Tournament
Unreal 2

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo

Post#2 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:53 am

Maybe our hero Gabe from steam will save us

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#3 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:31 pm

Its Mexicos fault.

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#4 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:41 pm

Who cares
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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#5 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:06 pm

[XK]meancloth wrote:Who cares



This clan exists because of halo. I'm sure there's plenty that will miss if (if it really does die this time...I've seen notices like this posted before though and it still exists).



And it looks like direct ips will still work and if cd authentication isn't a thing maybe that allows for more users to join idk or steam releasing it as free (if they can acquire the rights or even care to)

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#6 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:54 pm

If this is real I'm very sad. This is the only game I could play for 10 hours straight and continue for another 5. Bf3, bf4, dayz, breaking point. All okay games but I get bored fast.

I honestly can't find a game I like, I don't look at pc gaming the same as I did back in 2004-2007 so much Damn fun.

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#7 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:00 pm

The halo community will fix it somehow(by fix, I mean a good enough alternative). If they fixed the atrocious netcode, they can fix anything.
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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#8 » Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:06 am

damn mexicans!
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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#9 » Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:08 am

so if this is true then would you wouldn't be able to install your halo cd's in the future because it wouldn't be able to confirm the cd key right? how would that work
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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#10 » Mon Apr 07, 2014 2:26 pm

Someone on the hpt forums started this

https://www.change.org/petitions/steam- ... ultiplayer


Almost 10k signatures it looks like already after 1 day.

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#11 » Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:28 pm

[XK]Erøsion wrote:Someone on the hpt forums started this

https://www.change.org/petitions/steam- ... ultiplayer


Almost 10k signatures it looks like already after 1 day.


I wonder how many of those signatures are fake.

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#12 » Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:53 pm

[XK]Garniso wrote:
[XK]Erøsion wrote:Someone on the hpt forums started this

https://www.change.org/petitions/steam- ... ultiplayer


Almost 10k signatures it looks like already after 1 day.


I wonder how many of those signatures are fake.



How easy is it to fake signatures? I mean those all are within a day and it seems like the comments are from all over the world (well mostly europe/americas/australia). I doubt there's a program readily available for faking sigs on a site like change.org but I guess that's possible. Otherwise I don't see 10k being done manually in one day.


Edit: Also just found this posted today

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/halo-combat-ev ... ce-1443729


Edit2: I will admit some are fake because I just saw a gabe newell from san fran posted like as of 2 minutes ago lmao but that does not mean a large percentage are.

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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#13 » Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:19 am

[XK]~ZoTOb! wrote:If this is real I'm very sad. This is the only game I could play for 10 hours straight and continue for another 5. Bf3, bf4, dayz, breaking point. All okay games but I get bored fast.

I honestly can't find a game I like, I don't look at pc gaming the same as I did back in 2004-2007 so much Damn fun.




This is entirely the result of being 15.
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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#14 » Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:29 am

[XK]Erøsion wrote:
[XK]Garniso wrote:
[XK]Erøsion wrote:Someone on the hpt forums started this

https://www.change.org/petitions/steam- ... ultiplayer


Almost 10k signatures it looks like already after 1 day.


I wonder how many of those signatures are fake.



How easy is it to fake signatures? I mean those all are within a day and it seems like the comments are from all over the world (well mostly europe/americas/australia). I doubt there's a program readily available for faking sigs on a site like change.org but I guess that's possible. Otherwise I don't see 10k being done manually in one day.


Edit: Also just found this posted today

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/halo-combat-ev ... ce-1443729


Edit2: I will admit some are fake because I just saw a gabe newell from san fran posted like as of 2 minutes ago lmao but that does not mean a large percentage are.



What is that 20,000 needed number even mean? It seems completely arbitrary. Are they saying that microsoft will agree to adopt a game they didn't develop if it reaches that number?

I'm glad the game existed and created communities that still last to this day, but in all honesty, that game can die in a fire. It was Okay at the time (I say okay because it was a very bad port of an amazing game). And, most of the people that played it, played it because you could crack it and play for free, and then eventually save up 8 dollars and buy a key.

100,000 sigs wont save that game.
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Re: End of Gamespy... End of Halo?

Post#15 » Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:05 pm

[XK]meancloth wrote:
[XK]~ZoTOb! wrote:If this is real I'm very sad. This is the only game I could play for 10 hours straight and continue for another 5. Bf3, bf4, dayz, breaking point. All okay games but I get bored fast.

I honestly can't find a game I like, I don't look at pc gaming the same as I did back in 2004-2007 so much Damn fun.




This is entirely the result of being 15.



I was 22 at this time, scrib. didn't need to work, and still dont but i got fat so i had to fix that. :) Lets face it all the games xk plays are broken. this game being so simple was amazing, I mean you all like to play monopoly right?

if you didn't like the game simply don't post on this topic.

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