Server Authentication

(Donnovan) #121

When the GAMEMAKER cant do nothing about people unable to play on THEIR GAME you have sure something is wrong in this **** world!

(badman) #122

The latest info that I’ve got is that the affected infrastructure actually lives at Activision (much like stated by TAW_OldWolf earlier in the thread), and that id have been reaching out to them to get that fixed up.

(Celtic-Warrior) #123

Hooo Dear! :frowning:

(Runeforce) #124

Not pointing fingers at SD, but this is the worst news ever! This means nothing will be done! As ODF sugested earlier, what about releasing a patch removing the use of the authentication server (and the other DRM schemes build into the game?) If not, AT LEAST RELEASE THE SOURCE CODE, SO WE CAN FIX THIS PROBLEM OURSELVES!!! (looking at Bethesda and Carmack.)

(Dthy) #125

IIRC, patches require money and permission to make and distribute, as does releasing source code.

(akarmi) #126

this?

http://forums.warchestgames.com/showthread.php/23137-Login-Servers-down?p=348992#post348992

(millerq3) #127

:oppressor: I’m afraid the future really look’s bad.

If your server goes down,lose authentication or looking to put a new one up then forget it.

Is it so that SD can state that ET:QW is part of their game repertoire (“but we can do squat about you playing on-line/multiplaying as the hosting part is Activision/ID,so don’t come moaning to us”) and is a greatest single player game ever.

Things are never that bad if you ready yourself for the inevitable :infiltrator:

(TAW_OldWolf) #128

One of our members actually phoned Activision and guess what…??

They referred to Splash Damage :rolleyes:

Soooo…:infiltrator: ??

Could it be that SD is working on a and preparing for a …ET:QW 2 :penguin::penguin:

Sorry Badman but it seems like we will be bothering you again :stroggtapir:

(Winnie) #129

[QUOTE=TAW_OldWolf;398166]One of our members actually phoned Activision and guess what…??

They referred to Splash Damage :rolleyes:

Soooo…:infiltrator: ??[/QUOTE]

oh! did you lie to us? … we need an anwer, and a server authentication, from SD, activision, bethesda or ID, but a solution!!

(Loki.) #130

well, thats not encouraging news- to say the least…

if there is no money in it, lack0vision could care a less about this issue…

(Donnovan) #131

Badman, thankyou for the post.

And congratulations for WarChest, Fireteam and Splashdamage.

(TAW_OldWolf) #132

As Donnovan said, thanks for the post , Badman. Keep us updated , pls…

If there is no interest in keeping the server up why not tell us how to bypass the authentication ??
Maybe let us have an authentication server run by us players ??

There are a lot of super high tech guys around here who can sort this out if you tell us how :cool:

In the meantime SD can concentrate on developing ET:QW2 :oppressor:

(TAW_OldWolf) #133

Any news ???

Why is nothing happening ???

(DrFunkenstein) #134

My guess is that someone sent an email to someone else and that it’s on someone else’s to-do-list atm. In due time of course.

Dr. Funkenstein

(taw_m0nsta) #135

I now start to understand King-troll about his request for that random patch.
Guess its just a matter of time before fanatics are going to cut this game open. And… (* etqw female intro voice *) “Destroy everything in their path!”. :infiltrator:

(Crytiqal) #136

Who needs authentication anyway if there is no ranked :<

Drop the whole authentication stuff, and while you’re at it drop that flag aswell so people might start playing “unranked”.

(badman) #137

Nothing new to report yet. :frowning:

(.Chris.) #138

I’m guessing Warchest/Fireteam/SD wouldn’t be able to retrospectively acquire the stuff required to be able to sort out this stuff out internally for ET:QW and W:ET. From reading earlier, it seems Fireteam was started up partly to help prevent this from happening to your future titles, good move.

(DrFunkenstein) #139

Thanks for the update Badman, appreciated even though you don’t have any good news.

A couple of things happened in the past year that seem so stupid to me. There was the MSE upgrade were all of a sudden people had to figure out how to give Punkbuster the right permissions or they’d be kicked from a server. After that, Evenbalance stopped support for ET:QW which means that people who bought the game legitimately can’t play it for more then five minutes unless they venture into the territory of console commands or find another way to solve the problem. The cherry on the cake is the fact that the authentication server doesn’t do what it’s supposed to be doing.

It’s not like the updates or the authentication server are gonna bring down the internet to it’s knees. This makes no sense at all.

To me it’s like all the planets are aligned correctly to put the game out of it’s misery for good and for the wrong reasons :frowning: .

Dr. Funkenstein

(JinxterX) #140

Inappropriate adverb detected, suggest the use of “retroactively” instead :wink: Oh, sorry, off topic, won’t happen again I’m sure :tongue: