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Mostly old, but fondly remembered.

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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dr_faulk #1 3 years ago

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oOOoh sUx 2 b 0oO0oLd!
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zoidberg #2 3 years ago

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this is stupid. these are some of the best games Sierra ever had.
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PearOfAnguish #3 3 years ago

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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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brinlarden #4 3 years ago

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tribes 2 T_T
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redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #5 3 years ago

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@PearOfAnguish:

Yippie ki yay!
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jack_klugman #6 3 years ago

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Can't people host their own independent servers for all these games though?
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Eraysor #7 3 years ago

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Homeworld is awesome >_
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LazyDan #8 3 years ago

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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 - you go for the multiplayer and whoops! Nothing there. Looking at you Black & White.
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Hunam #9 3 years ago

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Homeworld and Tribes. If some freak of disaster made it so those were the only two games left in the world, I'd still play games more than talk to people.
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Totoriko #10 3 years ago

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credit crunch effect
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rudedudejude #11 3 years ago

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WHERE IS AVP3!?>!?!?!??!
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sneetch #12 3 years ago

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@LazyDan
"Tribes 2 is mainly a multiplayer game right?"

Pretty much only multiplayer, one of the best games ever IMO. Massive games, vehicles, customisable armour sets. Fantastic.
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drunkymonkey #13 3 years ago

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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 #14 3 years ago

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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 #15 3 years ago

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Yes Ceasar is not that old... guess no one is playing it online then (I dont
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Eraysor #16 3 years ago

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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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ZuluHero #17 3 years ago

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only a fiver? Blockbuster by me is still selling copies of AA for �20...
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AOFanboi #18 3 years ago

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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 #19 3 years ago

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Aaaaah Homeworld, so many fond memories of that game

/raises a glass
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UncleLou #20 3 years ago

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I am actually surprised they had still official servers running for all these games.
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TurboBailey #21 3 years ago

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WHERE IS AVP3!?>!?!?!??!

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cubbymoore #22 3 years ago

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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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FooAtari #23 3 years ago

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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.

Edited by 1 at 09/10/08 @ 09:18
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