Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:51 am Post subject:
EA Is Shutting Down Over 50 Multiplayer Game Servers in June
Subject description: Three of which include: C&C Generals, C&C Tiberium Wars and C&C Red Alert 3
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. For starters, I would like to apologize for not posting PPM or community news as often as I used to a couple of years ago, I have become a very busy man since the golden days on PPM so keeping on top of the community and everything that happens around here other than for my own mods is a difficult task to keep on top of, I give kudos to Banshee for being able to do it so well!
It has been bought to my attention today by Apollo that EA plans to shut down over 50 multiplayer game servers, this will apparently happen this year on the 30th of June!The article that I was linked to contains all the necessary information on what games will be getting the axe, unfortunately, some of these titles were some of mine and maybe even your personal favorites. Here is the list of games EA will be shutting down. The list includes not only PC games, but Nintendo DS and Wii games as well.
Battlefield 1942 for PC and Mac (including The Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WW2 expansions)
Battlefield 2 for PC (including Special Forces expansion)
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for PlayStation 2
Battlefield 2142 for PC and Mac (including Northern Strike expansion)
Battlefield Vietnam for PC
Bejeweled (r) 2 for the Wii
Bulletstorm for PlayStation 3
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for PC and Mac (including Kane’s Wrath expansion)
Command & Conquer: Generals for PC and Mac (including Zero Hour expansion)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for PC and Mac
Crysis 2 for PC
Crysis for PC
Crysis Wars for PC
Dracula – Undead Awakening for the Wii
Dragon Sakura for Nintendo DS
EA Sports 06 for PC
F1 2002 for PC
FIFA Soccer 08 (KOR) for the Wii
FIFA Soccer 08 for Nintendo DS
FIFA Soccer 09 for Nintendo DS
FIFA Soccer 10 for Nintendo DS
FIFA Street 3 for Nintendo DS
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers for PlayStation 2
Global Operations for PC
GREEN DAY: ROCK BAND for the Wii
James Bond: Nightfire for PC
Madden NFL 08 for Nintendo DS
Madden NFL 09 for Nintendo DS
Master of Orion III for PC
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC and Mac (including Breakthrough and Spearhead expansions)
MySims Party for Wii
MySims Racing for Nintendo DS
MySims SkyHeroes for the Wii and DS
NASCAR Sim Racing for PC
NASCAR Thunder 2003 for PC
NASCAR Thunder 2004 for PC
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 for PC
Need for Speed: ProStreet for Nintendo DS
Need for Speed: Undercover for Nintendo DS
Neverwinter Nights 2 for PC and Mac
Neverwinter Nights for PC, Mac and Linux (including Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide expansions)
SimCity Creator for Wii
Skate It for Nintendo DS
Sneezies for the Wii
Spore Creatures for Nintendo DS
Spore Hero Arena for Nintendo DS
Star Wars: Battlefront for PC and PlayStation 2
Star Wars: Battlefront II for PC and PlayStation 2
THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND for the Wii
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for Nintendo DS
I have seen this news before prior to being linked to it today, but I wasn't entirely convinced whether or not it was genuine until I researched it myself a few moments ago.
EA Representatives wrote:
As games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level - typically fewer than 1 percent of all peak online players across all EA titles - where it's no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running.
GameSpy is one of the two online services officially supported for C&C Renegade (next to WOL/XWIS), it'll be shutting down too but there's a community replacement up. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 11:28 am Post subject:
No. GameSpy has decided on their own will to abandon their online gaming business where these games relied on, in order to work.
By the way, the computer that hosts this site has an online server that emulates GameSpy for games such as Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2, as you can see here. It could be possible to expand that to cover Generals, C&C3 and RA3 if you guys cooperate by capturing packets that are sent or received by GameSpy on actions such as login, victory, defeat, quick match, victory and defeat on ranked matches, etc by using WireShark and sending this information to Phil, at Revora Forums. Note however, that a Generals server is not at the top of their priority list (they still need to recreate quick match and ladder there). Last edited by Banshee on Wed May 14, 2014 1:59 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
This is really weird as they still sell most of the games on Origin. GameSpy closing is not really a valid reason. They can host their own master servers and patch the games accordingly. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 2:02 pm Post subject:
At least shutting down the last C&C games that were succesfull (but for some wierd reason leave C&C4?), will certainly not make them more popular than they are now... QUICK_EDIT
Shutting down C&C4 would make the game (even more) unplayable, as as far as I can tell it requires the player to be online at all times even for singleplayer. QUICK_EDIT
We know some of these games are still fan favorites, including Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Command & Conquer games. We are still investigating community-supported options to preserve online functionality for these titles, such as multiplayer. Significant technical hurdles remain, and at this time we don’t have anything to announce.
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:09 pm Post subject:
New Objective has been acquired for CNCnet: Expand your network base and establish forward base to maintain the base power (games) online until reinforcements (new mods) has arrived. _________________ Mod Leader and founder of World Domination
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 6:44 pm Post subject:
I love to hate on EA just as much as the next guy for what they done to WestWood (C&C) and Trauma Studios (Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942) but GameSpy is the one pulling the plug.
If you want to EA hate, hate EA for not steping up and saving there games like many other Devs/Pubs have. _________________
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:06 pm Post subject:
At this point, I'd expect some other company to step up and take GameSpy's place.
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EA Is Shutting Down Over 50 Multiplayer Game Servers in June
