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Sierra closing 21 game servers News
PC News by Robert Purchese
Sierra/Vivendi plans to close 21 game servers on 1st November.
Fortunately, these all belong to old titles not yet old enough to be considered retro-cool like stupid plastic sunglasses.
The Sierra site gave no reason for the closures; it could be something to do with the Activision Blizzard merger, or just be because these games are knocking on a bit now.
There's some fond memories there, though.
- Alien vs Predator 2
- Arcanum
- Caesar IV
- Dark Reign 2
- Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
- Empire Earth
- Empire Earth 2
- Empire Earth: Age of Conquest
- Ground Control
- Ground Control2
- Homeworld
- Homeworld: Cataclysm
- Nolf 2
- Red Baron
- Sanity
- Star Trek: Armada
- SWAT3: EE
- SWAT3: GOTY
- The Incredible Machine
- Tribes 2
- Vampire
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PearOfAnguish
08/10/08 @ 14:52
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Red Baron?? Not the original, shirley?
Shame about Tribes 2, but there are a few servers out there run by die-hard fans. |
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jack_klugman
08/10/08 @ 15:08
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Can't people host their own independent servers for all these games though?
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squarejawhero
08/10/08 @ 15:14
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I thought Tribes 2 was taken offline years ago? That's why I stopped playing.
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drunkymonkey
08/10/08 @ 16:12
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Caesar IV.
What? That's only a couple of years old! And Homeworld - not retro cool?! HA! |
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elephant_stone
08/10/08 @ 16:44
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aw, Homeworld....I was just gonna start playing that again and it would have been good to get online. LAN match @ mine anyone? Aint even started on the sequal!
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makeamazing
08/10/08 @ 17:53
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Yes Ceasar is not that old... guess no one is playing it online then (I dont :)
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"Tribes 2 is mainly a multiplayer game right? Bet they don't stop selling it in the budget ranges. That's the most annoying thing about buying budget PC Games these days."
I noticed Gamestation selling copies of Auto Assault for £5 each a few weeks ago. Good luck finding any use wih those other than coasters. |
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The local Game here in Oslo has Asheron's Call 2 as part of their PC software sale. Well, I guess the manual is a fancy read. "Oh, if only the servers hadn't been turned off two years ago, I could have been playing drums in a band". Which was the second coolest part of that game. (The coolest was that you were playing the monster races from AC1.)
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InfiniteFury
08/10/08 @ 21:06
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Aaaaah Homeworld, so many fond memories of that game
/raises a glass |
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cubbymoore
09/10/08 @ 02:41
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Aww bugger, I still play nolf 2 every now and then and the official servers seemed to be the only good ones.
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Surely there are independent servers for most these games as jack said? Wait, I get it, they host the master servers. Without those playing online would be a bit of a pain.
I was amazed to still find people playing Doom and Command % Conquer when I looked a few weeks ago. It does suck though that they are happy to sell these games in budget ranges yet no longer support them online.
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