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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by izacus on Thursday December 15, 2022 @05:59AM (#33997725)
Some games from that are are on the list (e.g. UT) so I'm wondering what's going on there.
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by suumcuique on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:10AM (#33997814)
You can host your own game server in UT but you're still depending on Epic services for the server listings and license (CD key) validation.
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by doikor on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:09AM (#33997802)
For those the service used for searching/listing the servers is being taken down. If you know the ip address of a server you can still play.
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by dark-star on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:23AM (#33998407)
No need to remember IP addresses, we have DNS now ;-)
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by RobotToaster on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:03AM (#33998879)
You have to wonder just how little hosting a lobby server must cost a company the size of epic. Collating a list of server IPs and names seems fairly trivial.
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by ohyes on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:25AM (#33999155)
It probably has more to do with paying someone to keep it patched and running happily.
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