Why would they have the same logo and everything? That's so weird...

No it isn't. It really isn't.

Halomaps and Halomaps forums are actually owned by the same company.

Gamespy and PoweredbyGamespy really are 2 different companies. It's a little strange, yes, but Gamespy, the journalist one, confirmed it themselves in a recent article.

Read the Gamespy article.

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1226912p1.html

Basically, they used to both be owned by IGN but then PoweredbyGamespy was sold to GLU. And since then they have nothing to do with each other.

They can't really sue each other because they were at one point the same company. But they seperated. Of course, one of them should have the intelligence to think to change their name to differentiate themselves. But just seems like neither really cares so meh.

I don't think either company expected this much backlash to happen, and for there to be this much confusion...

Hopefully, one of them will change their names (or at least their logo) after learning from all this.

You do realize that a) you responded to someone who is banned and b) that responding to someone you believe is trolling makes you worst than the troll?

Please review this thread:

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• Do Not troll which means do not post messages specifically designed to start arguments or controversy.


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Edited by Dennis on Dec 13, 2012 at 09:22 PM

Which is why you should not have posted.

HALO TRIAL MULTIPLAYER IS STILL ALIVE. Go to http://rabbitcage.dip.jp/ for IP addresses to connect to get into games. Yesterday we had 9 people and a good game going, get the word out!

If the CE master server goes down couldn't someone host their own master server and have us mod our CE so it connects to theirs?

For anyone who doesn't understand:

Even if they shut the servers down,we can still play MP.

It's just that we won't be able to find servers in-game (the master server(s) provide a "list" of servers that are being hosted).

Direct IP would still work.
Edited by Dumb AI on Mar 2, 2013 at 11:37 PM

Did someone ask for me? Guessing you're talking about this old tool - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OlmNEDKsPU

Edited by ethreepoh on Mar 6, 2013 at 11:19 PM

you're alive? 0.0
Get on skype and respond sometime

Also, didnt you make a server app had something like this happened?

Alive? Hardly.. I updated my previous post with the link. SilentK and myself worked on a master server project awhile ago that allowed a modified haloce.exe to use our master server instead of gamespy. It would take some effort for me to get it back up and running again. I'd have to drive about an hour to my storage to grab my old drives... I'm going down there next week sometime, i'll grab them then and try to get it working again if you want.

NEVER go ANYWHERE without your towel. These guys all made that mistake.

https://www.change.org/petitions/steam-adopt-halo-combat-evolved-custom-edition-multiplayer . Just tell, how to prevent halo ce servers shut down

Do petitions ever work? The only petition I recall working was for the crappy Mass Effect 3 ending...

dumbish question but if the halo servers go. does that mean halomaps is going stop posting maps for downloads?

(on that note I start downloading maps like crazy :P )

Louis C.K. explains this difference very well in a stand up bit, actually.

I'd buy that if it were on a t-shirt.

Is it bad I feel kinda good for totes predicting this?

Shame Dennis deleted all my posts so I can't prove it, but at least I have the warm satisfaction inside.

Could you be a little more specific?

Like, I remember a while back I made a post about how eventually whoever's paying Gamespy is going to stop and multiplayer is going to be deaded unless a third party solution could be found.

I'm not even pulling this out of my arse lol, I'm most definitely paraphrasing but almost 100% certain I brought up those points even before this thread.

e: Found it, the quotes found about midway down the page are from me.

Thread also first instance of Masterz Mac evangelizing
Edited by BKTiel on Apr 23, 2014 at 10:42 PM

I don't think that counts as a prediction so much as common sense. Of course older games will eventually lose support when they are no longer cost effective, forcing players to seek out third party solutions. That's just business.

I predict that one day support for Halo 3 multiplayer will die.
Edited by Echo77 on Apr 24, 2014 at 12:15 AM

If it's so obvious you should have made a topic on it, methinks

The fact of the matter is that the plug being pulled on multiplayer is not something anyone's really considered at all prior to this announcement. I take pride in being the modern day Paul Revere of this situation, and none of your retroactive cynicism can take that from me

Simple.. if noone picks this up just have a server ip list for those still running dedicated servers

I don't think Halo will ever be on Steam.
http://steamdb.info/app/216760/#section_history
Edited by bourrin33 on May 2, 2014 at 08:53 AM

Why not, A Halo Game is on Steam called "Halo Spartan Assault" why not Halo CE or other Halo Games, too? Maybe the Steam Greenlight voting would help?