Here's the message from http://www.poweredbygamespy.com/pricing/
This impacts MoH:AA a lot! I don't want to spread bad news but Quake3 Engine had it's own MasterServer support, but they removed it from MoH:AA engine and replaced it with GameSpy MasterServer which is totally different.Effective May 31, 2014, GameSpy will cease providing all hosted services for all games still using GameSpy.
If you have any questions about how this impacts your favorite title please contact the game’s publisher for more information.
Thanks for a great ride!
- See more at: http://www.poweredbygamespy.com/pric....n1g2Uox9.dpuf
I was aware that this day will come. That's why I focused on creating our own master server and plugins for web browsers for quick joining them.
Quoted text means that May 31 will be the end of in-game server browser and any external tool that queried MoH:AA servers from GSMasterServer.
Things that can be done about this:
- We can write own GSMasterServer emulator using their protocol. Then we would need to tell everyone to use our patcher that would patch MoH:AA client to use new URL that would point to our master server. (http://aluigi.org/papers.htm#enctypex)
- Tell everyone to use our Reborn patch to host servers. Reborn patch has support for our own master server that we wrote together with own3mall. In-game server browser still won't work, but players will be able to join servers from website if they install FF plugin or type IP directly.
- Tell everyone to use our Reborn patch and release stable version of the client to this date that will have In-game browser that will use our master
In case we won't be on time with 3rd option, we need to create plugin for Chrome too (it will also cover new Opera, or it should) so players clicking on the server record on the website can automatically start mohaa and join the server.
We should also think how to contact as much people as we can on many different websites about situation. Maybe we should contact XFire to add support for our master server?
We need to make some decisions and start acting much earlier than week before 31 May.