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Enshittification sure is fast (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by jballs@sh.itjust.works to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca

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[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's Gamespy round 2 (also, what an awful name for an authentication service)

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

GameSpy wasn't an authentication service. It was a way to search for servers for games because the in game search usually sucked. When you launched the game from GameSpy it would simply send a command line argument with the IP address when calling the executable. Well that's how it worked initially.

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was indeed used as an authentication service. See Unreal Tournament 3

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Unreal Tournament 3 was released nearly 10 years after GameSpy became a thing. The name made a lot of sense for the original purpose of the product, and it did amazing things for multiplayer games back in the 90s and early 00s.

[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TMYK

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

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