[ut3] Gamespy

[Dark Avenger]

The issue isn't totally with Gamespy, it's just that it's *mandatory*.  If
it was *optional* we wouldn't be complaining so much.

And besides, there *IS* an open source statistics package available, it's
called OLSTATS, and it works very well with UT2K4.

They didn't have to change the stats protocol, but even if they did it could
be documented and the open source community would provide the OLSTATS
interface.

Your argument is full of holes.

On Dec 17, 2007 9:03 PM, Paul <subsolar at subsolar.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 01:04 -0600, Oscar Ruiz wrote:
> > Well…..we can start to sign the petition.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nomoregamespy/index.html
> >
> >
> >
>
> OK if you don't like Gamespy, what should they use instead?   There are
> not many choices out there and frankly Gamespy is not the worst of them
> to make?
>
> You going to code up a master server and the client side libraries?
> You going to  run & maintain the server for Epic and other game
> companies?
> You going to accept bug reports and provide security fixes for the
> above?
>
> No?
>
> Can you point to something that they could use instead that would
> provide the same functionality that you don't dislike?
>
> No?
>
> I looked at the above issue some time ago ... the work involved with
> doing and figured out it's damn hard to do right. It would be nice if
> there was some nice open source server & client for doing the things
> that Gamespy, Windows Live and Steam do, but it's not likely to happen
> near term.
>
> Even if their was, most companies don't want to run their own servers so
> you end up with somebody running it and you will always get <insert
> company name here> sucks, we should write a petition.  People used to
> love Google, but there is a small but growing group that consider it
> evil.
>
> ::sigh::
>
> OK I'm done ranting.
>
> Paul
>
>
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