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GameSpy's New Owners Begin Disabling Multiplayer Without Warning

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-kind-of-them dept.

New submitter OldTimeRadio writes "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.""

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  1. Call Anonymous for help, steal source code by cheekyboy · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just get ANON to hack into these F'ers , steal the source, they porn, internal mail, and publish it , make a clone in a day.

    Oh and then trash their source code servers, and then modify the backup restoration scripts to corrupt the backup when restore is attempted.

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    Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
  2. Re:$2.7 million in stock? by moronoxyd · · Score: -1, Troll

    I discovered this the hard way when I just got battlefield 2 for the 10th anniversary of 1942.

    The 10th anniversary of 1942 was some 60 years ago.
    I didn't know that you had computers back then and that GamSpy is that old...