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JR · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:13 am Post subject: Gamespy shutdown.

Word is getting around, (came to me from Grabbi via Bluemax) that the Gamespy hosted services are shutting down as of May 31, 2014.

http://www.poweredbygamespy.com/pricing

http://www.pcgamesn.com/goodbye-gamespy-online-service-will-shut-down-may-31st

This impacts, to at least some degree, many games. Bluemax was being rather alarmist, pushing some such angle that all BF1942 players may need to connect to servers via the Pixel Fighter toolbox. It was clear his information was coming second hand from Grabbi so I took it with a grain of salt. Although Gamespy does not just match making for BF1942 but also plays a role in CD-Key authentication.

I'm assuming, the worse case outcome is, I'll have to set our BF1942 server from internet mode to LAN mode in the blackbag ops manager and we'll all have to connect using the +joinServer <ipaddress> command line parameter. But we'll see.

Is anyone else aware of the pending Gamespy shutdown. Does anyone else have any insight into how this might impact BF1942 or anyone of the many other games Gamespy supports? I'm sure I'd find any such info interesting.

JR · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:00 pm Post subject:

I did some more research on what games will be affected by the Gamespy servers shutdown.

According to this article, the people at EA Games might actually lift a finger to help Battlefield users:

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/EA-Trying-Save-Battlefield-Games-From-GameSpy-Shutdown-63390.html

Here's a list of affected games and potentially affected games:
(worse case scenario being the games are utterly unplayable (e.g. hang))

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/22fz75/list_of_games_affected_by_gamespy_shutdown

Affected

Arma
Arma: Cold War Assault
Arma 2
Arma 2: Free
Borderlands
Dungeon Defenders [PS3/Non-Steam]
Crysis
Crysis 2
Halo: Combat Evolved
Saints Row 2
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Stronghold 2
Stronghold Legends
Take On Helicopters

Status Unknown

Alien vs Predator 2
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
Civilization III
Civilization IV
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Behind the Call of Duty
Far Cry
Jagged Alliance 2
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Medieval Total War
Medieval Total War 2
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Postal 2
Red Dead Redemption
Shogun Total War
SWAT 4
Titan Quest
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Two Worlds
Two Worlds 2
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40K: Soulstorm
Warhammer 40K: Winter Assault

Probably Unaffected

Alien vs Predator (Classic)
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Call of Duty
Call of Duty United Offense
Call of Duty 2
Commandos 2
Commandos 3
Jagged Alliance
Hexen
Hexen 2
Quake 2
Quake 3
Quake 4
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune 2
SWAT 2
SWAT 3
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Gold
Unreal 2

Unaffected

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Arma 3
Company of Heroes
Multiwinia
Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online Edition
Stronghold HD
Stronghold Crusader HD

JR · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:10 pm Post subject:

Today is the day. The gamespy servers are supposed to be down now. I just jumped into BF 1942 and updated my server list. I see 233 servers and 804 players on line. I picked a random server and joined it, no problem.

To make sure this wasn't just static information I brought up two machines and ran BF 1942 side by side. I updated their server lists over and over and I saw numbers of servers and numbers of players vary, mostly in sync between the two clients. So I'm relatively sure I'm not looking at static data, rather, two clients of a functioning server.

So, to me, it looks like either the gamespy server is still up and running or BF 1942 is functioning just fine without the gamespy server.

Does anyone else have any info, knowledge or experience with this?

JR · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:53 pm Post subject:

This article at the EA site puts the drop dead date at "the end of June".

http://www.ea.com/news/update-on-ea-titles-hosted-on-gamespy

JR · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:09 pm Post subject:

From time to time I've seen people post here at don't camp messages of the form, "Let's have a DC-Final conquest night for old times sake." Well, this might be the last month in which such a thing can be done. I'll gladly host such an event if there is any interest for it whatsoever.

As I recall it was 30 minute time limit, 64 total players (32 vs 32) and the rotation went something like this:

Bocage
DC_Al_Khafji_Docks
DC_Basrahs_Edge
DC_Basrah_Nights
DC_Battle_of_73_Easting
DC_DesertShield
DC_LostVillage
DC_Oil_Fields
DC_Sea_Rigs
DC_Urban_Siege
El_Alamein
Gazala
GuadalCanal
Inshallah_Valley
Kharkov
Market_Garden
Stalingrad

PS
Suggestions and requests are more than welcome.

JR · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:10 pm Post subject:

Gamespy service for BF1942 has finally gone down. The service ended some time this past week. One can still play BF1942 but one must know the port and either the ip address or the fully qualified machine and domain name of the server.

For example:

In Windows 7 64 bit assuming a normal all defaults install:
Right click your desktop background and choose:
New->Shortcut
for the:
Type the location of the item:
text fill in, enter exactly this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe" +restart 1 +joinServer 74.91.115.222:14567

press next
for the:
Type a name for this shortcut:
text fill in, enter a name for this shortcut such as
BF1942CHIserver
and press finish

now there will be a shortcut on your desktop called BF1942CHIserver that will bring you directly to our server.

The mods we play are all posted here, as well as the blue and red map rotations:

http://96.163.136.182