The issue isn't totally with Gamespy, it's just that it's <u>mandatory</u>. If it was <u>optional</u> we wouldn't be complaining so much.<br><br>And besides, there <u><b>IS</b><b></b></u> an open source statistics package available, it's called OLSTATS, and it works very well with UT2K4.
<br><br>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.<br><br>Your argument is full of holes.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Dec 17, 2007 9:03 PM, Paul <<a href="mailto:subsolar@subsolar.com">subsolar@subsolar.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 01:04 -0600, Oscar Ruiz wrote:<br>> Well…..we can start to sign the petition.<br>><br>><br>><br>> <a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nomoregamespy/index.html" target="_blank">
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nomoregamespy/index.html</a><br>><br>><br>><br><br>OK if you don't like Gamespy, what should they use instead? There are<br>not many choices out there and frankly Gamespy is not the worst of them
<br>to make?<br><br>You going to code up a master server and the client side libraries?<br>You going to run & maintain the server for Epic and other game<br>companies?<br>You going to accept bug reports and provide security fixes for the
<br>above?<br><br>No?<br><br>Can you point to something that they could use instead that would<br>provide the same functionality that you don't dislike?<br><br>No?<br><br>I looked at the above issue some time ago ... the work involved with
<br>doing and figured out it's damn hard to do right. It would be nice if<br>there was some nice open source server & client for doing the things<br>that Gamespy, Windows Live and Steam do, but it's not likely to happen
<br>near term.<br><br>Even if their was, most companies don't want to run their own servers so<br>you end up with somebody running it and you will always get <insert<br>company name here> sucks, we should write a petition. People used to
<br>love Google, but there is a small but growing group that consider it<br>evil.<br><br>::sigh::<br><br>OK I'm done ranting.<br><br>Paul<br><br><br><br>---<br>To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <a href="mailto:ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org">
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