Server Authentication

Breo · 2012-04-26 18:52:38 UTC

fourzerotwo took the -auth3nt1cat1on- server when he left

millerq3 · 2012-04-26 19:53:18 UTC

Just enlighten me…who owns ET:QW…Splashdamage,Id,Bethesda or Activision?

I’m curios were all the jigsaw pieces go together & who ,end of the day, is calling the shots?

More importantly,like Dr Funk, I also would like to know why the inevitable hasn’t happened.

SockDog · 2012-04-26 21:12:58 UTC

Short answer is Bethesda/Zenimax own both the IP and Publishing rights to ETQW.

We can all hope they are busily editing out references to Activision, preparing a new Master Server and reloading ETQW onto Steam in, on or about the time of Quakecon.

millerq3 · 2012-04-26 22:00:59 UTC

SockDog

I’m with you in wishing this

Setlec · 2012-04-26 23:34:42 UTC

err kinda right, kinda wrong! id Software (zenimax) owns the IP and lack-of-vision has the publishing rights.

SockDog · 2012-04-26 23:57:51 UTC

Activision no longer own the publishing rights much like they no longer hold the rights to Quake IV. Hence why they both, Quake IV and ETQW, vanished from Steam (and Quake IV appearing back under the Bethesda banner).

millerq3 · 2012-04-27 01:46:47 UTC

To you Badman…pure and simple who owns ET:QW?

Chris2 · 2012-04-27 08:28:41 UTC

Badman doing his best to try and get answers to something he has no control over and all I see is the same couple of people giving him grief every other post they make, do those people honestly believe someone at Activision, id or Bethesda/Zenimax are going to just drop everything to resolve a problem on an old game that neither party either owns or cares about.

Just be patient, the ET problem took a while to be resolved so it stands that this one will also.

Susefreak · 2012-04-27 09:08:29 UTC

Well said Chris, I suggest everyone just twitter bombs the heck out of id, activision, zenimax and bethesda.

#idsoftware #etqw @Bethblog @ATVIAssist #fail
Is there even a single person looking into the ETQW master servers?

Breo · 2012-04-27 17:46:29 UTC

Not the same the community & playerbase of ET > ETQW.

badman · 2012-04-27 18:14:08 UTC

SockDog had it pretty much right in his post:

Splash Damage initially developed the game for id.

ZeniMax now owns the IP via id Software.

Activision maintains the player accounts / stats back-end / server whitelist via DemonWare, though part of the server stuff is also handled by id.

Runeforce · 2012-04-27 18:18:46 UTC

CoughSource (and IP) releaseCough (still looking at Carmack and Bethesda.)

Setlec · 2012-04-27 19:54:14 UTC

@ badman, would it be possible to you guys set a new master server to etqw and patch the game and server to use the new server?

SockDog · 2012-04-27 20:15:46 UTC

I would imagine SD are only in a position to elevate the communities concerns to id/Bethesda. If they could (legally) fix this I’d have no doubt it would have been done by now. Again, we can hope that Bethesda is in the middle of some updates to ETQW which will resolve this problem and remove Activision’s nefarious meddling once and for all.

BulletStopper · 2012-04-27 23:21:59 UTC

Here is a message TAW received from leetservers.

Due to the lack of support from the game Devs with QuakeWars, we are no longer hosting the game starting 5/1/12
The server will go down on 5/1/12.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

In other words people, the TAW NA server is going down.

Not certain if any other providers would be able to get a new server up considering the problems.

Donnovan · 2012-04-28 01:31:02 UTC

Guilty must be killed.

TAW_OldWolf · 2012-04-29 20:37:49 UTC

and the game Devs are Splash Damage ???

Clearify , please, Badman…You are the only official peson responding to us players, we really appriciate this !!!

So I’m sorry that we are bugging you but we do really need some clearification in this matter !!!

millerq3 · 2012-04-29 21:32:42 UTC

mmmm If i remember the game was once on Activision’s site…it isn’t no-more http://www.activision.com/atvihub/home.do

Think your right Sockdog,Activision are gradually being erased from the game and vis-versa

But noted it isn’t on the Bethesda site either,only showing on the Id Software site…very strange

TAW_OldWolf · 2012-04-29 22:12:25 UTC

So …if they don’t care about this game, why don’t show some respect to us players and fix a non-authentication patch ???
It can’t be that much money…

Dthy · 2012-04-29 22:39:03 UTC

[QUOTE=TAW_OldWolf;398860]So …if they don’t care about this game, why don’t show some respect to us players and fix a non-authentication patch ???
It can’t be that much money…[/QUOTE]

Clearly you don’t know about Activision or buisness. If there’s no profit to be made why bother? And you answered your own question already. “they don’t care about this game”. Money’s obviously not the issue, it’s just buisness.