PSA - Gamespy shutting down soon (May 31). TONS of games affected and will lose multiplayer.

This is still a win because gamespy(ware) blows and always has.

Most of these games were already dead and those who are still played can solve by using Hamachi or similar, not a big deal. Unfortunately, it had to happen sooner or later.

Luckily they are mostly old games, but still shitty for the ones still using their servers

Which game is Alien vs. Predator 2? Can anyone link me to the Steam Store?

As long as a game has LAN mode, you can use Tunngle to play with others.
Example

NOoooo, not Halo 1 :~( The multiplayer in that game is timeless

Makes me wonder if some of these will be removed from steam. lol

Don't think the original Unreal Tournament or other Unreal games used Gamespy. If it did, I'd never have been able to find any matches. Because anything that used a gamespy login etc. never worked for me.

As long as it doesn't affect single player, I couldn't give a shit.

Ohhh i remember those days on gamespy playing call of duty 2 allllll dayyyy longggg every day. Best times ever!

Borderlands' mp didn't work for me either months before this

What about Star Wars Battlefront?

Unreal Tournament

Unreal D:

you can use game ranger to play most if not all of thoes online. free

didn't civ 4 also used gamespy?

Yikes, lots of great games are about to lose a big chunk of their replay value... Many of these games can still be played over a network using 3rd party stuff, but nowhere near all of them. Even fewer if you want public servers. And you're S.O.L. if the online aspect was game content like user created levels or challenges, or global highscores.

Sort of the same deal with Nintendo's Wii network shutting down, but hopefully the Dolphin emulator ends up getting some kind of 3rd party server support (they already have netplay/P2P, which is pretty good).

I'm hoping there's a movement towards less of a dependence on 'online only' multiplayer in games, so we can go back to the more social days of couch multiplayer/LAN parties. At the very least, devs need to put in support for creating and connecting to privately-owned servers.

Company of Heroes already has a steam client version, which is great because I never managed to play a multiplayer session prior to it, haha.

Aww, crap. This won't be good.

Oh no, not Bad Company 2! I love that game. :(

Edit: Reddit is saying Bad Company 2 uses EA servers, so it won't be affected. Hopefully!

Good Riddance, gamespy was trash from day 1 imo. Sad seeing so many good games being effected by this but i am glad it is finally shutting down. Had nonstop issues over the years getting that shit to work right.

I hope borderlands gets patched and the securom from the dlc gets removed as well :P

Hopefully the games don't get removed from steam because of this.