Sierra game servers closing down
Posted by David on October 10, 2008 02:14 AM
According to a Sierra announcement posted at the Sierra Community forums at Vgames.com, It looks like the Red Baron 3D metaserver might finally be shut down on Nov 1, 2008:
Posted By: Eric@SierraRAC_Gump over at RB3D.net says he read on another forum that this only affects the Red Baron Arcade servers. But who knows? The Red Baron 3D metaservers have been running for ten years. But no worries - if the metaservers go down, we always have our private metaservers.
Created in: System (Global Announcement)
Posted: Oct 7, 2008 1:29 PM
The following game servers will be shut down as of 11/01/08:
1. Alien vs Predator 2
2. Arcanum
3. Caesar IV
4. Dark Reign 2
5. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
6. Empire Earth
7. Empire Earth 2
8. Empire Earth: Age of Conquest
9. Ground Control
10. Ground Control2
11. Homeworld
12. Homeworld: Cataclysm
13. Nolf2
14. Red Baron
15. Sanity
16. Star Trek: Armada
17. SWAT3: EE
18. SWAT3: GOTY
19. The Incredible Machine
20. Tribes2
21. Vampire
This follows in the wake of the recent merging of Vivendi/Blizzard with Activision, which owned the remnants of Sierra. It looks like Vivendi originally only wanted to acquire Activision, but got Sierra as a sort of unwanted red-haired stepchild. Out of all the game studios and games in development, only three were selected to continue development. All other games by small developers have been canned. And the rights to many game titles remains unclear.
One thing remains clear: Activision/Blizzard/Vivendi/Universal/etc/etc/etc obviously cares first and foremost about profits, gaming community and independent game developers be damned.
(via RB3D.net)