Venice Unleashed

Rodney wrote:More likely they don't sell it anymore because the masterserver (gamespy) will be shut down at the end of this month. And even EA wouldn't sell the game anymore.

Of course they can't sell BF2 any longer because its an online-only game and the online service is now defunct.
However, I think Muntaqim_313 was trying to make the point that EA won't sell games that have mod support in general anymore.

Bruce Lee wrote:

Rodney wrote:More likely they don't sell it anymore because the masterserver (gamespy) will be shut down at the end of this month. And even EA wouldn't sell the game anymore.

Of course they can't sell BF2 any longer because its an online-only game and the online service is now defunct.
However, I think Muntaqim_313 was trying to make the point that EA won't sell games that have mod support in general anymore.

Yeah, I was trying to make a point. Battlefield 2 is exactly the kind of game EA doesn't like. It is fully moddable, has singleplayer bots and skirmishes, LAN, and as far as I know, people are able to implement their own server configurations for online gameplay.

And your point isn't exactly valid, Bruce. Red Alert 2 cannot be played online, or even on LAN, but it is still sold by EA.

Muntaqim_313 wrote:And your point isn't exactly valid, Bruce. Red Alert 2 cannot be played online, or even on LAN, but it is still sold by EA.

Wrong. I still play Red Alert 2 on LAN with my nephew.

Paulofonta wrote:

Muntaqim_313 wrote:And your point isn't exactly valid, Bruce. Red Alert 2 cannot be played online, or even on LAN, but it is still sold by EA.

Wrong. I still play Red Alert 2 on LAN with my nephew.

You used a patch, right? But even if you didn't, RA2 isn't available online. So if EA was only selling online multiplayer games, then they wouldn't sell Red Alert 2.

You mean RA 3. Red Alert 2 is fine. You can play Skirmishes and LANs.. it came out before Generals so yeah there must be a way to play on LAN..

Muntaqim_313 wrote:You used a patch, right?

I use a third-party dll to make it work by UDP instead of IPX, since IPX died with Windows XP.

Paulofonta wrote:

Muntaqim_313 wrote:You used a patch, right?

I use a third-party dll to make it work by UDP instead of IPX, since IPX died with Windows XP.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Besides there are some IPX-wrappers. I managed to play Diablo 1 over IPX with a wrapper.. but it has been too long since i played it.

Oh Diablo 1/2 .. what fun did i have with you..

Kerrigan wrote:Besides there are some IPX-wrappers. I managed to play Diablo 1 over IPX with a wrapper.. but it has been too long since i played it.

Oh Diablo 1/2 .. what fun did i have with you..

Who knows. Maybe one day LAN will be obsolete technology.

These last 2 pages don't even have anything to do with VU. Can't you guys just make a Random thread about this?