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GameSpy Attempting to Dump Mac Gamers

Posted by Zonk on from the keep-heart-gentle-apple-users dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Inside Mac Games reports that GameSpy is trying to license its way out of supporting the Mac." From the article: "The impact of GameSpy's pricing tactics could be devastating to the Mac gaming market. A number of recent games on the Mac such as Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Breakthrough, Neverwinter Nights, and others use GameSpy."

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  1. Gamespy, where have you gone? by O_Sleep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember really liking this company in the Quake1 days. The *world.com sites where great community sites. They were the source for mods, skins, console commands, quakemovies, etc.

    Then they switched and became a really unappealing, money grubbing company. I even bought one of their for-life gamespy 3d licenses which they want me to upgrade. They switched to a for pay product and I don't think they put any money into the old one.

    Use to be a great source as well for downloads, now it's waiting in line for a public ftp server. Why haven't they embraced torrents?

    What happened at this company?

  2. sad day for gaming by biggyfries · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is a sad day for gaming in general. To drop support of a viable platform for monetary reasons is ir purely a financial move on GameSpy's part. They basically dont want to spend the time and/or money supporting a platform--granted, that platform is small, but that is still your customerbase youre fucking with.

    Yes, i know platforms range--ps2, xbox, gamecube, DS, cellular, etc. PC and Mac run on the same TCP protocol, just different internal programming (just like all platforms, after i think about it).,br>

    If they are dropping supprot for a (fledging?) platform, then they might as well do it for Gamecube (Network adapter? whats that?), or even PS2, since it seems that it does not have the same online userbase as the xbox.

    why isnt there a competitor to GameSpy? At least, one that is just as popular?

  3. I guess I should be affected by this somehow.... by Selecter · · Score: 5, Interesting
    But I'm not.

    I own both a Dual 1.8 G5 and find the Mac to be a superior platform over Windows for everything I do in computing.....EXCEPT gaming. For that, I have my 3000+ homemade box.

    As I get older, I dont game as much or as often. I expect there's a lot more like me in the same boat, they used to be hardcore gamers back in their 20's but I'm a lot more interested in producing and making videos and music these days.

    Mac beats the PC hands down for that. ( for me )