I just learned of the news yesterday when trying to play SW Battlefront II, tried to log in on gamespyid.com and the web didn't work so I googled it, then I found out what happened.

What are your thoughts on this?? Do you think the games that use GameSpy as online service will be compromised??

PS: Sorry if this was posted before, this forum is so big and also I never post too much, since it's in english, and it's not my native language. I mostly read the featured posts only and the one with news.

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No. They won't be affected whatsoever. It is the gamespy news and so forth website, that is closing down. Not GameSpy Technologies.

11 years ago
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Good news then, but what will happen if I forget my login data?? There's no way to recover it

11 years ago
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Not totally true.
A few weeks ago I replayed a bit of Sword of the Stars and on their news they said Gamespy had been bought by another entity. The problem being that although they had already negociated a costly contract with Gamespy, the new owner waned another sum to resume the gamespy activity fro Sword of the Stars.

11 years ago
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I know that some games have gone offline, but not because the service isn't available, but the prices have gone up. I saw it mentioned in an article about it recently, when explaining why one of the games using it no longer has online.

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Would be nice to see how many games will be affected

11 years ago
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That really is something that will depend on if devs / publishers will pay to continue using the servers.

11 years ago
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I've heard the new price is astronomical. Sounds like it is either meant to extort money out for the developers that designed their games relying on this system, or to strongly encourage everyone to void their contracts and jump ship from the servers.

11 years ago
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Yeah, I was thinking that myself. I know it has extra digits over the previous price, which would make them reluctant to continue with the service. I'm just hoping I can get the rest of the multiplayer achievements in Borderlands while online is still available in that title.

11 years ago
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They sucked anyway.

11 years ago
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Hated Gamespy. No opinion really on the others....

11 years ago
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Thats why i miss the LAN feature...

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Closed 11 years ago by theMadArgie.