Hmmm I may unplug my net cable tonight and try this.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dark Avenger</b> <<a href="mailto:sap.darkavenger@gmail.com">sap.darkavenger@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Have you noticed that when you start up the game to play, it automatically logs you in?
<br><br>Have you noticed that when you start up a dedicated server it requires an ID and password?<br><br>Answer me this --- what happens when you can't reach gamespy, for whatever reason, network outage in their datacenter, power outage, server outage, hacker attack, etc., etc. Will everyone and every server stop working?
<div><span class="e" id="q_115aa743b061852b_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ondřej Hošek</b> <<a href="mailto:ondra.hosek@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ondra.hosek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
GameSpy, and mainly the menu, is already being (rightfully) bitched<br>about in the Epic forums. I'm very sure Epic can take the hint and make<br>a real menu with more than three options, but as for GameSpy, I'm not
<br>sure they'll be able to remove it easily, seeing as they probably signed<br>some sort of deal which would complicate such an "amputation".<br><br>~~ Ondra<br><br>On 16.10.07 20:57 Uhr, Robert Larkin wrote:
<br>> Matthias Bach wrote:<br>><br>>> Hi!<br>>><br>>> Am Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007 schrieb Alan H. Gifford:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> Here's a question, why is GameSpy something I should care about?
<br>>>><br>>>><br>>> Well, you are not the only person asking that question.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>> What if I want to play on a LAN? Will it allow me to set up on a LAN
<br>>>> that's disconnected from the Internet? I would hope so. I really<br>>>> dislike all the software moving toward a point that almost nothing but<br>>>> the bare essentials will work without Internet access. It's very weak.
<br>>>><br>>>><br>>> Well, I hope so! However it sadly seems to become more and more a fact that<br>>> anything you are told you are bying you are actually just gaining a temporary<br>>> license to. I mean, what if for some reason gamespy decides no longer to
<br>>> support UT? I know this is unlikely, but for less popular games it has<br>>> happend. I mean, where I leave you are not even allowed to backup your audio<br>>> CD or DVD if they have a technically effective copy protection aka
<br>>> Multisession or CSS, I mean, this is a joke, right? :( And that albait the<br>>> fact that it is know that optical disks tend to fall apart on a O(10)<br>>> timescale which is exactly why every game company and any music producer has
<br>>> to give a non-copy-protected version to the national library.<br>>><br>>> Just my 2 €-cent. And yes, I know it's ranting in the wrong place, but it's a<br>>> thing that pisses me off. It's not fair to SELL me something if it's acutally
<br>>> only being lend with special conditions. And software activation or<br>>> enforerced registration for internet accounts is just the next one along this<br>>> line. I mean, there are already games that can no longer be played because
<br>>> the registration servers don't work any longer.<br>>><br>>> Well, as long as the gamespy thing is an extra it's great. If there is no<br>>> open-internet game it's a rippof.<br>
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<br>>> I'll shut up now,<br>>> Regards,<br>>> Matthias<br>>><br>>><br>> The gamespy login and the menus in general are such a regression for<br>> this game. I can't think of any reason for gamespy to be involved at
<br>> all actually. I don't think it's copy protection because they had/have<br>> that in ut2004 don't they? At least I think so, didn't the master<br>> server validate keys? The ut2004 menu was really intuitive, this one is
<br>> like the flash website from hell.<br>><br>> >From searching around some forums I don't think gamespy is liked by most<br>> players.<br>> <a href="http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?s=e3c5c94287e7f7c620aa58d44265b4db&t=575752" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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