• huginn
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    1 year ago

    You got some hella rose tinted glasses on my guy.

    GameSpy was a bloated piece of garbage that is only fondly remembered because the other options were worse. It crashed constantly which ripped you out of your game and it performed this trick especially often right when the game launched.

    Ping was always wrong, lobbies displayed as full when they weren’t, server filtering was non-existent, required login every time you disconnected…

    I was thrilled to move off of it to basically anything else

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      GameSpy was a bloated piece of garbage

      Bloated? It literally did 1 thing, and that was give you a list of servers that you could filter, despite your attestation it had no filtering.

      The other options were worse

      All Seeing Eye was often considered better; though I remember it being exactly the same program just with a different name.

      It crashed constantly, ripping you out of the game

      All it did with the game was connect you to the server you selected using the game’s own commands. If GameSpy itself crashed after you’ve connected to the server, the game wouldn’t be affected.

      You sure you’re thinking about GameSpy?