Unofficial "Empty Server List" Fix

Mateos · 2012-03-21 20:41:12 UTC

10chars yay

badman · 2012-03-23 12:29:27 UTC

Sorry for the long delay - no news to report yet.

Ruben0s · 2012-03-23 14:17:21 UTC

Great… that gives us something to look forward to. Seriously, 3 months have passed by and basically not a thing has happened. It’s a bit weird if you remember that this is the game that gave splashdamage it’s name. And that it is the only game from splashdamage that basically still has a playerbase. I know that ID software is responsible , but splashdamage can not even give an update on their beloved game…

Just tell us that it won’t come back so we can move on, or that there is still some hope that it will come back, or that they are still working on it.

Don’t make the same mistake as with uuh the game called brink. Where you promised us linux dedicated server files, but never gave us an update about the fact that they will never be released, although we asked millions of times about an update.

Domagoj · 2012-03-23 17:04:22 UTC

[QUOTE=Ruben0s;396133]Great… that gives us something to look forward to. Seriously, 3 months have passed by and basically not a thing has happened. It’s a bit weird if you remember that this is the game that gave splashdamage it’s name. And that it is the only game from splashdamage that basically still has a playerbase. I know that ID software is responsible , but splashdamage can not even give an update on their beloved game…

Just tell us that it won’t come back so we can move on, or that there is still some hope that it will come back, or that they are still working on it.

Don’t make the same mistake as with uuh the game called brink. Where you promised us linux dedicated server files, but never gave us an update about the fact that they will never be released, although we asked millions of times about an update.[/QUOTE]

+1 totally agree with u man

Smurfer · 2012-03-23 17:33:04 UTC

+2
You’re shooting yourself in the foot. You’re doing yourselves a lions favour. You’re sawing off the branch you’re sitting on.

cheesy · 2012-03-23 18:03:53 UTC

Thats because SD does not know much more than we do.

I think we are already at the point of moving on. However everyone has their own idea of moving on.

I am reeeeeally trying to get people to understand, we have everything we need to get ET back to its former glory (minus a COMPLETE installer). If we can get harekin’s to add Rudi’s host service, or make his own, then we will have a COMPLETE installer. After that we can begin the tedious process of replacing all the WolfET links out there with this new installer. Then we just wait…players will start coming back.

but I just can’t seem to get Harekin or Schnoog to make a comment on that

IRATA · 2012-03-23 18:28:40 UTC

@badman: Are there any resources at splashdamage to host a master server? All ID has got to do is to enable a Port Forwarding to another server. This might be the existing community master server or just a hosted one at splashdamage. This isn’t a big job for real and shouldn’t take another 3 month …

cheesy · 2012-03-23 18:38:00 UTC

THE Irata??? I remember your EULA disputes to me well…Ah the memories.

:eek: …bowing…

hunterthebest · 2012-03-23 22:19:17 UTC

Do you still have/had contact with IDSoftware? Ask them to hurry or just put the domain on the “unofficial server” for a unknown time?

gaoesa · 2012-03-24 00:52:00 UTC

Some companies put a lot of money into just getting the brand names known. Succesfully. Without any direct money return. I think masterlist is cheap in comparison to other advertising methods I can think of right now. Port forwarding is even cheaper and completely community dependent. When there is nowhere to forward, there is no community anymore.

TheSgtBilko · 2012-03-24 01:53:01 UTC

“Never surrender, never give up!”

Domagoj · 2012-03-24 10:01:02 UTC

Well guys, dunno what are we expectin anymore, its been 3 months since list is down, not to mention punkbuster…Looks like they just want to cut us down, so…Still wondering if they dont wanna put any effort in it anymore why cant just they redirect that damn masterlist to Paul’s masterlist or smthing, it will be another chance for ET, cuz now is like doomed…Badman, you were our only contact, so please, can you ask them somehow to put that redirect? Or just let someone else work on it…Dont let this great game die like this…Thanks.

schnoog · 2012-03-24 12:06:16 UTC

cheesy, sorry for not responding… I`m a littlebit forgetful the last weeks (have had heavy workload and trouble with some health authorities at my job).

I hope Harlekin will implement the proxy service to his installer. When this took place, I`ll deactivate all older ET downloads @ wolffiles (or at least create a notification).

Btw:
Is there anybody out there using MacOS? Does Mac also support a /etc/hosts redirection?

cheesy · 2012-03-24 17:32:42 UTC

[QUOTE=schnoog;396214]
I hope Harlekin will implement the proxy service to his installer. When this took place, I`ll deactivate all older ET downloads @ wolffiles[/QUOTE]

Thanks Schnoog. When this happens, I will start blasting emails to every site I can find to add Harekin’s installer.

Mateos · 2012-03-24 17:38:06 UTC

And to delete the old installers as well cheesy

Rudi · 2012-03-25 12:05:20 UTC

[QUOTE=schnoog;396214]Btw:
Is there anybody out there using MacOS? Does Mac also support a /etc/hosts redirection?[/QUOTE]

Yes, it’s in /private/etc/hosts

Tankey · 2012-03-25 15:06:03 UTC

[QUOTE=Ruben0s;396133]Great… that gives us something to look forward to. Seriously, 3 months have passed by and basically not a thing has happened. It’s a bit weird if you remember that this is the game that gave splashdamage it’s name. And that it is the only game from splashdamage that basically still has a playerbase. I know that ID software is responsible , but splashdamage can not even give an update on their beloved game…

Just tell us that it won’t come back so we can move on, or that there is still some hope that it will come back, or that they are still working on it.

Don’t make the same mistake as with uuh the game called brink. Where you promised us linux dedicated server files, but never gave us an update about the fact that they will never be released, although we asked millions of times about an update.[/QUOTE]

This guy is so damn true. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory was a great game according to the engine / graphics etc on the time it was released. A few years/months later came CoD with the same quality game, but ye, a FEW years/months later.
It was Wolfenstein which was damn well-known those days. It gave both IDSoftware and SD it’s name, same for Activision.
I’m sure many people know what wolfenstein is, maybe not ET, but yea. The only thing I can say is: “It’s an awesome game, but the masterlist has been defect for months and due the lack of information we have from SD/iD I rather recommend the CoD series”. Jezus.

It’s truly a shame this is happening to such a game. There never was a game which has hold it more than 8 years with still an (shrinking, but though) active community. And then this happens. No information, no updates, no idea what is going on, truly nothing. That is just a mega-fail.

I do not blame SD, but they have produced this game either, they should push ID to make this damn masterlist and put it back online.
ID is ruining SplashDamage it’s name, more than ever.

But this seems to be pointless. There is no way we get more information about what is going on. I even contacted ID with a huge mail and details. Guess what I received? 1 sentence: “We have no further developments according to the masterlist”.

This is probably my last post here. The efforts we put in this, are pointless as we get no information nevertheless what we do.

Goodbye.

//Tankey out

Domagoj · 2012-03-25 15:15:55 UTC

[QUOTE=Tankey;396313]This guy is so damn true. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory was a great game according to the engine / graphics etc on the time it was released. A few years/months later came CoD with the same quality game, but ye, a FEW years/months later.
It was Wolfenstein which was damn well-known those days. It gave both IDSoftware and SD it’s name, same for Activision.
I’m sure many people know what wolfenstein is, maybe not ET, but yea. The only thing I can say is: “It’s an awesome game, but the masterlist has been defect for months and due the lack of information we have from SD/iD I rather recommend the CoD series”. Jezus.

It’s truly a shame this is happening to such a game. There never was a game which has hold it more than 8 years with still an (shrinking, but though) active community. And then this happens. No information, no updates, no idea what is going on, truly nothing. That is just a mega-fail.

I do not blame SD, but they have produced this game either, they should push ID to make this damn masterlist and put it back online.
ID is ruining SplashDamage it’s name, more than ever.

But this seems to be pointless. There is no way we get more information about what is going on. I even contacted ID with a huge mail and details. Guess what I received? 1 sentence: “We have no further developments according to the masterlist”.

This is probably my last post here. The efforts we put in this, are pointless as we get no information nevertheless what we do.

Goodbye.

//Tankey out[/QUOTE]

again i must agree…this is like 1 huge fail, but not just considering masterlist, look also at punkbuster…no1 made any effort considering it…and now its been 3 months since the masterlist is dead, and all what we get is “We have no further developments according to the masterlist”, that make’s me think a lil…hosting that damn masterlist isnt a 5000hours of work…why they turned it off in first place?Like Tankey said, this is prolly my last post here also, cuz I dont believe anymore at all that masterlist is coming back ever ever, which is rly said, cuz I rly loved this game, and still love it, but this is not the end which it deserves…Atleast they could said we are not gonna put masterlist online and thats it, all problems solved, it take’s like 20 seconds to write such a sentence and about 5 seconds to click on post.And all our problems would be solved, and since they have no intention in fixing it, I still dont understand why they dont redirect it to Paul’s service or something, to keep this game alive…Cuz on this way we are losing players in huge numbers, at the evenings we maybe have 50 servers running with 10+ people which is totally suckage, just if u look on xfire you will see that W:ET was a 2nd most played game on xfire few years back…And now…we dont have anticheat and we dont have masterlist, ok about punkbuster atleast they wrote they r dropping the support for it ok…But this considering masterlist is total suckage, this just make’s SplashDamage look bad, so if anyone who have power to do something is reading this, especially Badman, please contact them and let they give you sum further answer, cuz that would mean a lot to us. Sry for this boring text but I had to write what was on my mind, still…what to say… Dont let our beloved game die like this!!

Dragonji · 2012-03-25 17:03:24 UTC

Official masterlist will not come back anyway… We were waiting too long. If it’s not up yet, it won’t be in near future…

stealth6 · 2012-03-25 18:06:37 UTC

Quake, Unreal Tournament, Team Fortress Classic,…

All problems solved? I think we’d be in the exact same position. What would making it official actually change? Doesn’t seem to solve anything as far as I can see.

Anyway as long as we can connect through IP I don’t see a problem I use splatterladder / trackbase / friends to get server IP’s and then just connect like that. So unfortunate… yes, the end of W:ET… No.