NoahsMyBro
08-22-2003, 02:46 PM
I just read this in a post to /.:
The (official) reason "Alien Front Online" (a game with the word "Online" in the title!) went offline less than a year after its release is that SEGA developers hard coded the server's IP address, and did not provide any means of changing it. When the company hosting the server went under (gameloft?) it couldn't be moved to a different company since it wouldn't have the same address. Hence, buy a game advertised as "online", never be able to play it online.
It's not a new story, but I think it bears repeating as a showcase of stupidity.
Anybody here ever read this anywhere before? I've never heard this until now.
The (official) reason "Alien Front Online" (a game with the word "Online" in the title!) went offline less than a year after its release is that SEGA developers hard coded the server's IP address, and did not provide any means of changing it. When the company hosting the server went under (gameloft?) it couldn't be moved to a different company since it wouldn't have the same address. Hence, buy a game advertised as "online", never be able to play it online.
It's not a new story, but I think it bears repeating as a showcase of stupidity.
Anybody here ever read this anywhere before? I've never heard this until now.