billybill wrote:
I am still interested in his response, as I might as well start querying the master lists with robots myself. I'd sure like to flood them all offline and steal all their servers be the dominant master server after they all shut down due to irreleventness and being abused. I will be the supreme master list leader who has entries that are uplinked from anywhere. bahaha. Well, it's still far too much of a coincidence and far too much of a risk.
Ah, I understand.
You seriously believe that Darkelerious seeks some form of dominance or advantage or fame.
That is obviously the way you think billybill, and you seem to think that is also how everyone else operates.
It is not in Darkelarious's interest to become some form of uber-master, or for any master server to somehow be dominant.
There is no prize for the winner. There is nothing to win. It is not a competition, and never has been.
333networks is a hobby he does while he gets on with the rest of his more important life.
Ideally all masters are equal and can communicate in both directions (imagine p2p networks). This allows for people that insist on using 1 master to see all the servers no mater which they use.
The ideal situation is to use the one geographically closest as your primary choice, and a couple of backups (me, I like having a plan-B. Having a plan-C as well, is way better. You don't need to be a tactical genius to see the advantage, and also why UT was built to use multiples from day-1).
The Unreal crowd have been running the new masters as equal peers for a while now, and this is how it should be.
With the new Unreal update the load is evenly spread among equals and old masters alike.
There is no dominance fight amongst them, or need of it.
Dominance leads you down the path of GameSpy and destruction.
billybill wrote:
If I see other games being supported on his site I'll be very impressed, the officially supported games should be having direct uplinks directly to his server too, should be no need to continue the port scanning
The publishers that use 333nw as a backup (note 333nw is always the backup), will be listed on the site. They have the option to host their own version (part of the complete 333 package), or rely on the display at 333networks.
Some go one way, some the other.
I have already said before, that 333networks did not go looking for business, so don't expect to see the list grow much.
Help was requested by members of their communities, and being helpful types we responded to them and I contacted the various companies, who were needless to say very grateful, and after a few quick tests they were all up and running. Most importantly they are now in charge of their own network, and can never suffer the demise of the provider.
I have even been offered freebies/credit on my steam account by some of these companies, and have declined their offers, and when I asked the rest of the group if they wanted freebies, guess what ?
Everyone said no thanks.
They are just happy that other people are happy, and a good job is done
OK.
Reminder of the topic title
"GameSpy closing down"
Old news, it has closed.
It is bereft of life.
Shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to meet the quire-invisible.
Unless anyone has something to say about GameSpy, please put it elsewhere.