 Cartel
join:2006-09-13
Chilliwack, BC
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| End Of The World 2012.....For GAMESPY Powered Games This evening, just two months after Glu Mobile acquired GameSpy Technology from IGN, they have sent an email to participants of their GameSpy Open program informing them that it will be shuttered on December 12th, 2012.
As of December 19, 2012, the GameSpy functionality will no longer work within your game. To avoid confusion, we suggest that you alert your players to this change in service.
In other words, thanks, but don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
»www.examiner.com/article/glu-mob···he-table
As of yesterday, I have noticed Fear and Halo CE or no longer working.
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmRzkHFwPY |
Cartel
join:2006-09-13
Chilliwack, BC
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| Over the last month, both game publishers and gaming communities alike were surprised to find their GameSpy multiplayer support suddenly disabled by GLU Mobile, who purchased GameSpy from IGN this August. Many games, including Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Swat 4, Sniper Elite, Hidden and Dangerous 2, Wings of War, Star Wars: Battlefront are no longer able to find (and in some cases even host) multiplayer games. While games like Neverwinter Nights are still able to directly connect to servers if players know the IP address, less-fortunate gamers expressed outrage on GLU Mobile's 'Powered by GameSpy' Facebook page. In an open letter to their Sniper Elite gaming community today, UK game developer Rebellion explained it was helpless to change the situation: 'A few weeks ago, the online multiplayer servers for Sniper Elite were suddenly switched off by Glu, the third-party service we had been paying to maintain them. This decision by Glu was not taken in consultation with us and was beyond our control. We have been talking to them since to try and get the servers turned back on. We have been informed that in order to do so would cost us tens of thousands of pounds a year — far in excess of how much we were paying previously. We also do not have the option to take the multiplayer to a different provider. Because the game relies on Glu and Gamespy's middleware, the entire multiplayer aspect of the game would have to be redeveloped by us, again, at the cost of many tens of thousands of pounds.""
»games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/0···-warning |
KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Cartel
Guessing GLU has no desire to run game servers and just wants the gamespy "brand". GLU is a mobile games company I would not be shocked to see Gamespy coverage focus on phones and tablets only in the future.
on a side note its been 2 months and Gamespy.com still says "Powered by IGN"
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