HEAT.NET - Were you there, do you remember? Post up!

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For those of you who don't know, HEAT.NET was founded by "Gary" who I remember being the CEO of Segasoft during the late 90's. I remember he used to send me boxes of heat.net CD's to distribute, he's been successful, unfortunately heat.net was not.

It was similar to mplayer.com, essentially the same gui. You would log into heat.net through the application, join a game room which had a chat area. Inside the game room, you choose a game that someone has created, and join up. It was the middle man for hosting game servers, acting a as a local hub/switch for others who wanted to join. Heat.NET had a monthly subscription of $4.99 a month (iirc, may have been closer to $10)

http://segaretro.org/Heat.net - "In September 2000, it was announced that Heat.net and HeatCIGL would be shutting down on October 31, 2000. This was due in large part to financial difficulties. At the current time the average player had $10 worth of degrees or more in their account, but was only paying $5 a month as premium membership fee."

Heat.net had several branded games they created. Scud, Rocket Jockey, some other titles which I don't remember. Most notably, Ten-Six, made to be the first MMORPG, quoting "1 million players online simultaneously" - it never got out of beta. Cool concept, but it was conquered by development teams with deeper pockets. Rocket Jockey, however, was BADASS.

Heat.net gave you points or 'degrees' for every hour you played. They also had a schedule where you earned double the points if you played a particular game during a particular hour. If you were lucky enough to get in the raid, a game run by a heat.net staff member at random, you earned every more degrees. If you placed top 3 in said raid, you earned some ridiculous amount of degrees. You could use these degrees to earn swag, games, video cards (3dfx voodoo rush, haha), and all sorts of cool stuff. It was original and awesome and it forever changed my gaming experience. So much that I became the PC gamer and not the console gamer. While I still enjoy the console from time to time, I am a PC gamer at heart due partially to HEAT.NET

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Me, circa 1998, sporting the HEAT.NET t-shirt which was my first large lan (50+ people).

I talked about this in the other thread, figured I would post here.

LeviathanZERO said:
Heat.net!
Whoa dude that takes me back. Man I remember spending HOURS in the chat rooms, Quake 2 DM, CTF, RA all the time. They even had this point system where you would get free stuff just for playing online. Loved the service. Sega was actually doing OK back then, before Seganet and the Dreamcast. I got a logitech force wheel pro from them, 200$ value at the time. Never seen anything else like Heat.net ever since.....
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Funny, that's me back in the day in the heat.net shirt :D

Yeah, they called them "degrees" - makes sense they went under... check out this strategy...

Takes 5000 degrees to get a copy of SCUD, you get 100 degrees for each hour you are logged on, and 200 degrees for each hour you were in a scheduled game. If you got in a "RAID" where a mod joined and watched you play, the top 3 players got degrees. If we played DA BOMB, we usually placed 1st or 2nd (between my buddy and 1), that was like a free 1000 degrees.

I am not sure of the exact points, but I remember it working just like that.

So, take 5000 degrees, get a copy of the HEAT.NET game SCUD, guess what's inside... a coupon for a FREE MONTH OF HEAT.NET

Therefore, a few days of gaming = free month of heat.net, it paid for itself.

Also remember Reinu, who went to the heat.net sponsored E3 venture for reaching a million degrees first. I think the top 3 players were sent.

Yeah, I miss HEAT.NET, funny that the guy I met off there is still a good friend to this day, hell, got him a job at the last place I worked, we've been friends for 12 years now.

For all of you interested in playing quake da bomb, I have a server setup at home, would love to relive some fun q1 heat.net original gaming.

My Handle back then: DHahlen
My Heat.net game of choice: Quake Da Bomb, Quake 2 DM
Favorite Heat.Net branded game: Rocket Jockey

People I remember playing with: Reinu, rwing22, welfare/turdzwelfare
 
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I played on HEAT.NET back then too. Then after a while of playing CS 1.6 and EQ1 I forgot all about it, seems its gone and is now taken over by some porn site.
 
I played quake on heat.net hardcore in 2000, and I believe it closed later that year. I then moved onto mplayer.com

I remember playing with the C5 and MAAS guys.

Those were the good old days. I believe quake live would have been far more popular if they had modeled it a bit more after heat/mplayer.
 
It was definitely gone by 2001, I don't remember it being around at all.
 
I remember it, MSN Gaming Zone, Gamestorm, MPlayer.com and other similar services. I can't actually remember what game I had for Heat.net, but I remembered you could earn points to buy games on it.
 
Certainly brings back memories... I used to use HEAT and TEN primarily for ARC (Attack Retrieve Capture) along with Wolfram (or whatever the name of the tank game was).
 
Heat.net - WarCraft II.
Kali - WarCraft II.
Zone - WarCraft II.
Battle.net - WarCraft II.
MPlayer - WarCraft II.
 
I had a Heat.net logo key chain from from one of those contest. I wish I didn't thrown it away. I would put it on ebay for $1,000 :p
 
I played Descent on Heat.Net for a while, but I don't remember ever having to pay for it. Then I switched to Kahn which was like Kali except free.
 
i dont think i ever used or heard of heat.net

maybe it was before my time, the quake 2 era
 
I believe heat.net ran from 96 to October 2000. Quake 2 was out in December 1997. I had it release date :D
 
refraxion said:
Heat.net - WarCraft II.
Kali - WarCraft II.
Zone - WarCraft II.
Battle.net - WarCraft II.
MPlayer - WarCraft II.
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Thanks for the recall!

Drakenfeng said:
I played Descent on Heat.Net for a while, but I don't remember ever having to pay for it. Then I switched to Kahn which was like Kali except free.
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Remember this now too!

486 DX4 90 SuperTurns
 
Not to derail, but somewhat on-topic of old-school gaming sites, who remembers TheCLQ.net?
 
I remember playing heat.net Q2 a long time ago. That was great stuff. Too drunk to type so good night.
 
My main use for HEAT was Quake2, but everytime they had a comeptition for other random games I'd always go there for trophies :D. I had something like 30 trophies before I stopped playing (got a random one for playing on mothers day?!).

It was fun but they were easily get bogged down, great for when game locators were gone or super buggy (gamespy?).
 
TwistedAegis said:
Not to derail, but somewhat on-topic of old-school gaming sites, who remembers TheCLQ.net?
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Of course I remember the original CLQ I always used to check my stats after a game of Q2. I remember the tacky aqua and yellow font layout like it was yesterday. Personally I didn't use HEAT I only played Rainbow 6,Rogue Spear (the zone), Q2,and Kingpin. Damage location was great in that game. Shoot the opposing player's leg and they limp (no health regen either) Ahh the good old days
 
Absolutely cannot forget HEAT.net. I spent a lot of my time playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six multiplayer on there.
 
Definitely remember this. I think I played the original Rainbox 6 game on there. I was like 13 then.

Man...
 
Yeah buddy, you know it.
I cant remember my login, maybe XerXes or LeviathanZERO. Hey, I still get good use of that logitech wheel too. They were very involved in the community, thats what I miss the most about the service, and it was easy to meet people.
I was a HARDCORE Quake 2 player. Always in Q2DM or CTF. I remember the occasional Age of Empires round, but 99% of the time, Q2. I would have Heat.net AND All-seeing-eye server browser running at all times.

It was nice having so much free time in high school....heh
 
LeviathanZERO, you're on the money. I have the unfortunate feeling that the level of community involvement that existed on Heat.net is something that would be impossible to duplicate today. I certainly don't mean the rash of horseshit web 2.0 pseudo-involvement every website bolts on.

Heat.net and Ultima Online (before shit went downhill and then downhill even further) were sort of the last staples in what was, for me, the golden age of gaming.

My parents never forgave me for the hours of "Red team has the... Blue team has th... Red team has the bomb" they had to put up with during Quake: Da Bomb.
 
I still have one of those heat advertisement slips with one of my game manuals laying around. Memories.
 
pikawel said:
LeviathanZERO, you're on the money. I have the unfortunate feeling that the level of community involvement that existed on Heat.net is something that would be impossible to duplicate today. I certainly don't mean the rash of horseshit web 2.0 pseudo-involvement every website bolts on.

Heat.net and Ultima Online (before shit went downhill and then downhill even further) were sort of the last staples in what was, for me, the golden age of gaming.

My parents never forgave me for the hours of "Red team has the... Blue team has th... Red team has the bomb" they had to put up with during Quake: Da Bomb.
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bind q "+jihad"

BAKLAVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
Think I had a Heat.net shirt too as well as some other stuff they mailed to me. Think I also played Quake or Quake 2 on it. Memories...
 
LeviathanZERO said:
Yeah buddy, you know it.
I cant remember my login, maybe XerXes or LeviathanZERO. Hey, I still get good use of that logitech wheel too. They were very involved in the community, thats what I miss the most about the service, and it was easy to meet people.
I was a HARDCORE Quake 2 player. Always in Q2DM or CTF. I remember the occasional Age of Empires round, but 99% of the time, Q2. I would have Heat.net AND All-seeing-eye server browser running at all times.

It was nice having so much free time in high school....heh
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You used Xerxes, I remember the handle.....

http://board.flashkit.com/board/archive/index.php/t-250718.html

Xerxes
01-06-2002, 09:13 PM
Well, I used to go to Heat.net to play online games all the time. I got some new games a little while ago...so, I though...hey, I will go to heat and see if my account is still active. Well, unfortunatly Heat.net is no more. So, my question is: Where would be the best place to play PC games online for free (Like heat.net's service). I mostly have new Interplay games...if that makes a difference.

Thanks guys. ;)
- Xerxes
 
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2440296.html

On December 27, 1999, as you're sitting down to play the games you didn't have the time to play on Christmas, Heat.net will be host Unreal Tournament, whose champion will walk away with US$5,000 - not too bad of a way to step into 2000....

The Y25K Unreal Tournament Money Match is sponsored by InfoInteractive. It will give 128 players the chance to show their stuff in single-elimination matches. Other prizes range from $25 all the way up to $3,000.

"The Y25K Unreal Tournament Money Match is just another way that Heat.net is serving its community of online gamers," said Matt Callaway, director of community development for Heat.net.

The match runs from 6pm to 8pm PST on Monday, December 27. Gamers are urged to register immediately to be qualified to enter.
 
I used Heat.net back then, along with The Zone/mplayer (though I mostly used that for video chats, etc).

I sitll have some of those old Heat.net bucks you used to get in various game boxes back then.

I also was in the beta for 10-Six, it was one of my first beta tests. Even got some swag from SEgasoft back then, Ir emember having to call them and things when I got in the beta.

Also a huge fan of Rocket Jockey. That game was so much fun. I'd LOVE to see what they could do with that now, with all the physics and updated things they have now.
 
I remember heat. Mainly used it for quake 2. Ahh, to be 15 years old, working for spending money, and to be enjoying quake 2 over 56k(if you were lucky)....Those were the days!
 
 
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