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GameSpy Shutting Down Services

hopefully someone will leak the source or write something that can emulate the gamespy servers so we can still play some of these games...
 
Pringle said:
God damn I'm getting old
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That's all this really made me feel too.

To me, GameSpy Arcade was that annoying thing I had to deal with as a kid. It always wanted to be installed alongside games. It's been years since I've even heard the name GameSpy, and now reading this news was a swift kick to the nostalgia balls.
 
Jon55 said:
That's all this really made me feel too.

To me, GameSpy Arcade was that annoying thing I had to deal with as a kid. It always wanted to be installed alongside games. It's been years since I've even heard the name GameSpy, and now reading this news was a swift kick to the nostalgia balls.
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years? lol Gamespy was in the news last year
 
BurntToast said:
For the clueless 50% in this thread, they are NOT talking about the standalone server application Gamespy 3D. That project died YEARS ago.

PLENTY of games even created today use Gamespy for in-game server browsers. I'm pretty sure that gamespy is on EVERY modern platform and console.

Old games not receiving patches have the potential to be unplayable by this news.

Games are still being released that utilize in-game browsers powered by Gamespy.

Gamespy deserves the create for what it gave to the community. Both their news and services.

Most games do piss poor matchmaking these days. Gamespy offers match making services too. But the server browser days were the absolute best!
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The all-seeing eye was better imo. Too bad Yahoo bought and killed it. The best.
 
The Cobra said:
Gamespy came out a number of years ago (98/99?) it was the defacto service for online gamers back then. This was when 56K was still king in most parts of the country.

Once the developers started to put in their own game browsers into the game, gamespy started to flail in the wind as developers abandoned the platform.
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Wow, that was a long time ago! Thanks for the summary of their history. :)
 
Used gamespy for a couple games: Medal of Honor, UT99. When more games started to use an in-game browser I dropped them. I didn't like the 20 dollar "upgrade" feature either. It seemed like a scam.
 
Milkman said:
I don't suppose anyone has a list of games that used gamespy? That way i know what on my self of old games will stop working should i want to play them?
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List of game affected:

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
 
Gamespy's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Used to be where I find rooms to play Counter-Strike before Valve integrated it into the game.
 
Azhar said:
Gamespy's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Used to be where I find rooms to play Counter-Strike before Valve integrated it into the game.
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Takes me back to the MPlayer days. Meeeeemories.
 
Not to necro the thread, but in Nintendo's infinite wisdom, shutting down Gamespy services also reduces the amount of Pokemon games that will have full functionality to only the latest game (X/Y). Even Black/White 2 is only 18 months old and will be really crippled in terms of online play (no more online trades). There are still very large communities that play these games.

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