get alleg on steam

Post by **Raveen** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:17 am

As shoddy a service as it might be, Games for Windows Live might be the best service to get Alleg on.

FazzBumm · Post by **FazzBumm** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:14 am

i think rav is right. They will want Alleg on Windows Live or nowhere ...

TheDevil · Post by **TheDevil** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:13 pm

So why haven't we tried to get on Windows live thingy? or have we?

DasSmiter · Post by **DasSmiter** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:08 am

Games for Windows Live is being phased out IIRC

Sundance_ · Post by **Sundance_** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:35 am

BackTrak wrote:QUOTE (BackTrak @ Oct 25 2011, 01:31 PM) I've sent Microsoft some emails and a fax to find out what we would need to do to get an exception for FAO under the shared source license.

Hopefully we get some good news from Microsoft.

As an inmate in my jail once told me, "A closed mouf dun get fed..."

Worst they can do is say no. Although you would think they'd like their game to become more popular again.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:18 am

Barracuda wrote:QUOTE (Barracuda @ Oct 23 2011, 05:35 PM) Now that steam has f2p games...it would be great if we could try to get allegiance onto that page.

I mean look at puzzle pirates,

that game had a playerbase of less than 10,000, now its on steam and its numbers have tripled in mere weeks.

I am not sure whether it is possible with the licensing, but if it is I think it would help the game immensely.

EDIT: btw I haven't played in about two years, just starting to get back into it in the bast couple of weeks.

Please read this post by Dark_Sponge approx. 1 year ago.

Free multiplayer games on Steam, Why couldn't Allegiance be one of them?
I was noticing that there are a couple of totally free multiplayer games on Steam...

http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...showtopic=58522

JimmyNighthawk · Post by **JimmyNighthawk** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:21 am

Imago wrote:QUOTE (Imago @ Oct 27 2011, 05:18 AM) http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...showtopic=58522

Give us a summary, I just woke up here, and am too lazy for reading ... so old stuff,zZ²$%&!=)^^

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:34 am

JimmyNighthawk wrote:QUOTE (JimmyNighthawk @ Oct 26 2011, 10:21 PM) Give us a summary, I just woke up here, and am too lazy for reading ... so old stuff,zZ²$%&!=)^^

well Tigereye joining the fray may help....

MrChaos · Post by **MrChaos** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:04 am

The owner of FAO isn't the owner of the code for Allegiance (and ASGS since well its theirs because of terms). Barking up the wrong tree

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:59 pm

MrChaos wrote:QUOTE (MrChaos @ Oct 27 2011, 05:04 AM) (and ASGS since well its theirs because of terms)

ASGS is Pook's alone, it's not a modification of the original source code or game so it's not Microsoft's and neither is TEK, ICE, AME and any other utilities.

But yeah TE isn't the owner of the source code and the work done by the Dev Team is open so anyone can take it and make their own website and servers and use their own authentication tools but it will still be under Microsoft's licence.

It would be interesting to see if Microsoft would be willing to sell Allegiance but then it might be worse depending on who buys it.