News: Sierra closes 21 Game Servers - Strategy Informer

Sierra closes 21 Game Servers
Posted: 08.10.2008 10:35 by Jamie Davey	Comments: 8
Sierra announced today that it will be closing 21 game servers on 1st November. This is probably due to the Activision Blizzard merger, although we cannot confirm this as Sierra haven't given a reason for shutting down these servers. Here's a list of the effected games: 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 Source: Sierra

By Praetorian on October 8, 2008
	Shutting down game servers always a sad news...

By Wowerine on October 8, 2008
	Yep. I just heard the other day that (Maxis) EA just shut down all the Sims Online servers. Maybe this doesn't mean much to the SI community, because we don't play that girly stuff. But as things are going on in the future I might even want to lay my hands ... Read more...

By lichlord on October 8, 2008
	tought these games have an age if you get me but server shutdown is caused mostly that they don't get any winning money of it could be cause of the global economical problems or just that the games are dead or almost dead

By herodotus on October 8, 2008
	Most of the games have no players on the Servers now (Dark Reign 2 & Ground Control II, I know definitely) and a lot have sequels. Sierra have lost Vivendi to Activision Blizzard, and those guys were their biggest developers.

By devel on October 8, 2008
	That's very true heretodus, as time goes on, it's only normal that player count decreases. Unlike WoW, which is only tending to increase, weird stuff. And of course that it's quite sad, because if you built a reputation online, you either pass on to another ... Read more...

By Orv on October 8, 2008
	I have always felt that it would be a very big "good faith" move on the part of those holding the code rights if they would release the server code to the gaming community at the time when servers/master-servers are discontinued for a game. Maybe I am just ... Read more...being naive...

By herodotus on October 8, 2008
	Good question Orv. To partly answer this, it is unfortunately an expensive undertaking to run a server, let alone rent one. To rent a server on say CoD4 is around AUD $200 per month. Imagine then the cost to own and run one, let alone decide which company ... Read more...

By Orv on October 10, 2008
	I had a comment, but I questioned whether it was proper to mention here... so I deleted it. (Due to legality) Needless to say, I have heard of games being taken by fan communities and servers run on micro scale, hosting a server list and allowing individuals ... Read more...to host single servers.

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