The Escapist (which is a fantastic magazine about the game industry) is running an interesting post-mortem issue on games that died, some of them years ago, in various ways. One of the features is on Allegiance. BV and TE both apparently got interviewed and are too shy to let you know... they didn't count on me returning just to post about this, though. /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />
P.S. It's official. It is, in fact, TigerEye, and not Tigereye. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
Allegiance gets free air time...
-
Anguirel
- Posts: 407
- Joined: Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:00 am
- Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire
-
GhostMachine
- Posts: 247
- Joined: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:59 am
- Location: \m/ Podville \m/, NJ, USA
Bah, a small part is kinda misleading.
"Players created their own utilities to enable them to connect to LAN-hosted game servers and continued to play."
MS never officially stopped to supply their lobby, but it was just crashing every 2 or 3 days. Sovroute was mostly used as a backup when the lobby was down than as our main way to play. We needed to ask the zone help for a reboot whenever it crashed. Getting the lobby back us was awfull. I remember waiting for hours in the help chat room to get it back up. I did it 3 or 4 times every week(yes, the lobby crashed that much). Early in the post 1.25 days, the zone guys had no idea what to do when I told them the lobby was down. Most managed to tell me that they found the guy who had the power to reboot the lobby.
The funny part was the difference between the guys I knew(and who knew me) because I met them 3 times a week and the others. With the ones who knew me, I would just say: " Reboot the Allegiance lobby plz. Thx ". They would do it fast. The others were like "WTF?!? are you talking about". I remember having to argue with one for 30 minutes before e did anything.
After a while, I kinda got tired of it and asked one of the regular zone helpers to refer me directly to the guy who could reset the lobby. He accepted it reduced the needs for sovroute cause we could ge the lobby reset in less than 5 minutes by directly telling the right persn(at least on weekdays).
We stopped playing on the MS lobby when some guys hacked allegiance to allow us to play on another lobby. I'm not even sure that lobby was legal, but everyone was tired of the MS one crashing every few days and were more than happy to play on a stable one.
Ahh, sorry for being a bit off topic, but reading that brought me old memories. I just forget how easy it is to play allegiance now. I also remember how crappy the servers were. A 7 vs 7 was often hardly playable due to lag...
It's just amazing how many times allegiance was saved and how all the things that seems natural now would have been seen as amazing back in the days.
"Players created their own utilities to enable them to connect to LAN-hosted game servers and continued to play."
MS never officially stopped to supply their lobby, but it was just crashing every 2 or 3 days. Sovroute was mostly used as a backup when the lobby was down than as our main way to play. We needed to ask the zone help for a reboot whenever it crashed. Getting the lobby back us was awfull. I remember waiting for hours in the help chat room to get it back up. I did it 3 or 4 times every week(yes, the lobby crashed that much). Early in the post 1.25 days, the zone guys had no idea what to do when I told them the lobby was down. Most managed to tell me that they found the guy who had the power to reboot the lobby.
The funny part was the difference between the guys I knew(and who knew me) because I met them 3 times a week and the others. With the ones who knew me, I would just say: " Reboot the Allegiance lobby plz. Thx ". They would do it fast. The others were like "WTF?!? are you talking about". I remember having to argue with one for 30 minutes before e did anything.
After a while, I kinda got tired of it and asked one of the regular zone helpers to refer me directly to the guy who could reset the lobby. He accepted it reduced the needs for sovroute cause we could ge the lobby reset in less than 5 minutes by directly telling the right persn(at least on weekdays).
We stopped playing on the MS lobby when some guys hacked allegiance to allow us to play on another lobby. I'm not even sure that lobby was legal, but everyone was tired of the MS one crashing every few days and were more than happy to play on a stable one.
Ahh, sorry for being a bit off topic, but reading that brought me old memories. I just forget how easy it is to play allegiance now. I also remember how crappy the servers were. A 7 vs 7 was often hardly playable due to lag...
It's just amazing how many times allegiance was saved and how all the things that seems natural now would have been seen as amazing back in the days.
Nice article, some inaccuracies; they seem to suggest that Allegiance was basically dead until the source was released, and after that it was resurrected... when in fact we had a lobby, dedicated servers, and an authentication system all in place before the source release, although the source release certainly didn't hurt (it helped a great deal), it wasn't quite as bleak as they made it out to be, it was a lot bleaker a long time before that of course. Still an interesting read.
Oh man.
The invasion begins!
Whatwith Mr. Yahtzee bringing enormous popularity to the website with his hilarious Zero Punctuation series, we'll see a flood of new players. It's a rather niche website like Gamasutra, so we might be getting the smart type of newbies too! /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />
Nice interview too, MEGA, BV and TE!
The invasion begins!
Whatwith Mr. Yahtzee bringing enormous popularity to the website with his hilarious Zero Punctuation series, we'll see a flood of new players. It's a rather niche website like Gamasutra, so we might be getting the smart type of newbies too! /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />
Nice interview too, MEGA, BV and TE!
