An interesting development

[Loinnreach]

We have had some direct complaints of a very serious nature and we need to take this action to ensure this does not continue to happen. As I said this is only a short term solution and we are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

Ok. I 'hold' you for your word.

You can only direct your chat to ONE person at a time. Try typing the same message out to 6 or more people and changing the ...select so and so...each time.

In the matter of fact you can contact as many people at the time with PM option as you like Jochi...select all you wish to contact with ''second arrow'' and when all selected, press ''first arrow''.('arrows' - for outgoing and incoming messaging)

[Vanya]

GAH!

Vanya find this amusing. Vanya have no head, and therefore no eyes or ears. So, Vanya not worried by this development.

Its simple: hosters put up games without passwords and play on "faith".

Joiners join and play and do their best to be "honorable".

With luck, the games will be enjoyable.

Vanya never bothers to check out who's hosting or what-not. (Of course, that is because Vanya finds it difficult to play online... so few games to choose from... and nobody joins if ye host...).

Vanya remembers when in a two hour period, He could play 10 full games in olde Shoggy. That number drastically dwindled to 2-3 games with MTW. But with RTW, that number is 0-1... for TWO HOURS!

Vanya never sets up games beforehand... He just randomly joins existing games without regard for the hoster or the rules (Vanya follows any rules laid out, of course, if He is made aware of them a priori.) It is the randomness that makes it fun. Pre-arranged games via a forum is... well... "not good" and kills the mood.

Fellas... Read between the lines. This happenned because CA got paid a visit by a lawyer or by a Guido-wannabe... or both. Some repressed choir singer with a holier-than-thou attitude (they probably don't take their kids to doctors when they get sick expecting the heavens to part so God can heal them of their ailments) probably overheard their spoiled little thorn of Satan joke about how he said blah blah blah to some yada yada yada. As a result, we've been expelled from the "garden of eden" of GameSpy.

Ahh... Vanya gets teary-eyed with nostalgia when he remembers the good ole days... when the worst ye could find in the game chats was Llama Insane doing his thing...

GAH!

[Aelwyn]

Shogun said as much as he could. Indeed I'm sure there were some impending lawsuits by some people that can't seem to ignore things, thus have to ruin it for everyone. Like the parents that try to get things banned just so their kids can't have them, instead of being "parents".

But yes, the thing that gets me is, there are definite ways to improve the lobby. They have been laid out in the past, and asked for already. So why did it take this long for it to be worked on?

[Alrowan]

now i wish the old PW'd rooms of STW would come back...

[Tomisama]

now i wish the old PW'd rooms of STW would come back...

Ditto!

That’s where many Clans were born

Only this time with the ability to keep an eye on the main foyer, and PM invites to join private chats (my two cents ).

[Jochi Khan]

Vanya says it as it is. Well spoken.

Jochi

[Just A Girl]

If game developers Made there own Servers like they used to ,
instead of depending On Game Spy,
(Also remember Dont shut them down when youve made enough money from the game"STW")

This problem could be easily fixed by asigning a mod to the foyer.

Guess its Cheaper to force people to use the inadequate game spy,

But with ca being Thrown about like a hot potato form EA to activision, and now i think to sega,
I supose its best to have a neutrall game server to host mp games on,
Having said that, Ive also seen game spy shuting down game servers as well.

So why dont you Just make a Server for RTW only instead of all this cost saving game spy stuff.
Its not helping you guys.