the company that killed off hundreds of games in a single day...

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  @scoutdy6547 · 2 years ago

  This is why modern games having such closed infrastructures scares me. One day a game you spent 100 if not thousands of hours on could be gone just like that. But not just time, but money, if games shut down, all that money fucking burns

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  @ShadoSpartan44 · 2 years ago

  that's crazy, glu either had no idea just how much power they had in the multiplayer landscape or they thought they could make so much more money by threaten to take it all down, and the gaming companies were like well i guess all our old games won't have multiplayer. So that's on glu for ruining a great opportunity for them

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  @ross3695_basedhax · 2 years ago

  The good thing about gamespy games is that it was P2P<br>So many of the games were easily revived, like Mario Kart Wii which has thousands of players daily 10 years after it shut down running on one server for free

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  @jomanaitor · 2 years ago (edited)

  some kind of law should be passed that if you close the servers for an specific game you&apos;re forced to release to the public the server software and instructions on how to put it working,so people can continue what the company stopped doing.

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  @MyHaloForges · 2 years ago

  Halo CE and Halo Custom Edition had a surprise patch update from Bungie so today in 2024, you can still find servers without GameSpy as long as you download the patch along with the game itself.

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  @Idontgiveafinuck · 2 years ago

  &quot;Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!&quot;

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  @jordan8199 · 2 years ago

  I was a big fan of the gamespy podcast that ended up becoming the comedy button years later and watching this all slowly happen in real time with insider insight was honestly such a strange experience. &nbsp;You could tell the people at the top of gamespy knew it was over the second they got acquired and IGN made it clear internally what their intentions with the IP, staff, and industry connections they acquired were. &nbsp;<br><br>Gamespy was always a weird, poorly run, company but they were so integral to early internet gaming and most people just have no idea. &nbsp;Really glad someone made such a great video on this.

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  @zivunknown · 2 years ago

  I remember an old sysadmin story about a server everyone was looking for, but no one knew the whereabouts, which turned out to be inside a small room that was walled off during renovation work and that everyone forgot about.

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  @D-FENS_ · 2 years ago

  Ill never forget the demonic voice as you start connecting to a server &quot;Let&apos;s get on with the killing&quot;

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  @8BitSamurai · 2 years ago

  Trying to relive the Brawl online experience is like being nostalgic for a particularly bad splinter

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  @37Kilo2 · 2 years ago

  GameSpy and All Seeing Eye were required installs after formatting my drive, or building a new PC back in the day. That logo is iconic.

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  @yazan4265 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDjNPfpUlc&amp;t=2229">37:09</a> thay shutdown all the cod servers on the wii on July 31 of 2023 without any announcement and if you try to go online with bypasser on mw3 or bo1 a massage appear saying &quot;The black ops (or MW3) online service for this software has been &nbsp;discontinued. Thank you for playing.&quot; Other games will show you an error message

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