the company that killed off hundreds of games in a single day…
What happens when over night hundreds of games just go offline? Gamespy one day just shut down and so many games like Battlefield, GTA, Red Dead, Borderlands, ARMA, and more went offline. Never to come back.
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Gamespy could of been what steam is* today.
I can't believe you didn't mention OpenSpy. It's essentially a complete replacement of the GameSpy server and it supports over 120 games, including Fear 2 and Halo:CE, which you couldn't get to work. Installing the patch is super easy and the experience is absolutely identical to what GameSpy used to be. I regularly play Flatout 2 on there, and it's honestly still pretty active
I played the heck out of Battlefield 1942 and it's infinite number of mods. I was also very active in the moding community. I'm so thankful that the community made the game playable again; otherwise, my nephews wouldn't have been able to play the mods my team and I built.
P2P are no longer a stupid idea now is it?
aaaah, You had to hit me with deep stone lullaby remix! Such a good song… ok, back to watching. (for the algorithm)
I was with Quakespy/Gamespy as a tester, we played with the guys at Id Software as they developed the more internet optimized QuakeWorld, which was simply Quake (as a windows executable instead of DOS) with latency prediction code made the game feel less laggy. That's something that just about every online game uses in some form. Remember this was before most people had broadband internet (I had dialup at the time with ping times over 250ms) and even the people who had broadband it was still slow compared to what we have now.
Halo CE and Halo Custom Edition are very easy to play online in 2024.
Saw this video on my homepage, and went for it. Gaming History stuff is fun, and interesting to me. If you do more of this I'll definitely be interested. I liked the first half of the video a lot more than the last half of the video though. The information was interesting the whole way through, but there were moments where I was kind of forgetting what video I was even watching, asking myself "why am I listening to these guys talk again? What is this video about again?"
Thank you for this video, now I have closure from long lasting trauma of loosing access to a few of my favorite games from my highschool days such as PSO2 and Unreal Tournament.
Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds is one of those games, good thing you can still use VPN to do a LAN tunnel.
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gamespy is still a thing? LOL i remember that from back in giants citizen kabuto days
Openspy still exists.
Ha…technofuedalism is here
And this is why most people say live service games are bad news.
Operation Flashpoint got saved by "Poweruser" when he and some associates reverse engineered the protocol and came up with OFP Monitor.
wouldve preferred if the vid stayed on the topic of what happened with the takeover and shutdown and why, rather than a rabbit hole of how to possibly maybe sort of occasionally get SOME of these old games workin :/.
Agent under fire was much much better than nightfire, first grappling hook! nightfire was for people who couldnt unlock debug on goldeneye and hadnt played agent under fire
I was there the day it happened..I was playing AOE2…gg..a really good game to those I was playing against
17:08 what is the game
Scoooooop
Thank goodness that they were so trash by modern standards that third parties were able to create aftermarket servers. Long live Wimmfi. 😂
Nice Canucks jersey
Get a pop filter.
I will never forgive Glu for what they did to C&C: Renegade.
Objectively "bad" game (I still loved it), but the multiplayer was SO unique and SO cool and to my knowledge there is still nothing like it around. The community was pretty serious too, making not just custom maps but entirely custom modes such as multiple full-on hand-made co-op campaigns that run for ~2 hours on a dedicated server before swapping to another custom campaign, all on rotation.
Fondest memories I have of any game.