Thoughts regarding the Microsoft Matchmaking server
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I just want a ROFL button…
And a good Sur generator.
rofl
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Hi Gary, Bradley here
Wouldn’t be a problem for me to update that, but I will need to run this by our legal team since they crafted that current message. Hopefully they won’t have any issues with your addendum.
Cheers
Woohoo progress is good! Hopefully they can pull through =]
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I’m really glad you got the contact for that guy. He seems like a really nice fellow
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FriendlyFire wrote:
I’m really glad you got the contact for that guy. He seems like a really nice fellowLikewise
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cheeseontoast wrote:
FriendlyFire wrote:
I’m really glad you got the contact for that guy. He seems like a really nice fellowLikewise
He is a tad awesome I don’t like “official jargon”, it’s made me want to sleep and feels like take to mechanical thing. I hope all of those people can reply email in that style.
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NeXoSE wrote:
cheeseontoast wrote:
FriendlyFire wrote:
I’m really glad you got the contact for that guy. He seems like a really nice fellowLikewise
He is a tad awesome I don’t like “official jargon”, it’s made me want to sleep and feels like take to mechanical thing. I hope all of those people can reply email in that style.
Well, Everything I have had from the guy has been like that, I just want to be polite and not look like im taking the piss
Which tbh, having at least one person at M$ on our side would be awesome ^_^ -
Chips wrote:
whispers I think the thumb smiley should be added to available smilies. What about a shrug one too?Sorry, kinda have a thing for smilies
I second that.
, :down:, :worship:,:eek:, :crazy:, :bounce:, :protest:, 
, :hitler: and 
should all be added, imho. Well maybe not :hitler: as we have lot of people from Germany and it might be a problem to them, legally.
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Chips wrote:
sweeet (not the smiley’s above :lol:
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Hey Gary, our legal team provided the green light on this for the language below. I’ll be updating the site at some point today.
Microsoft Game Studios has made the decision to retire player matchmaking services for Freelancer. We are proud to have hosted these services and would like to personally thank you for being loyal to our games. You will still be able to play your games and create matches within your game; however, matches will no longer be hosted by Microsoft Game Studios.
If you wish to have matchmaking services, the Freelancer Community has provided a solution to allow players to find servers online. This solution is available through http://www.fllistserver.com Microsoft is providing this link only as a convenience to you, and does not imply endorsement or any association with its operators. Microsoft shall not be responsible or liable for your use of these third party sites.
Cheers
w00t!
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Gratz, nice!!
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Way to go! Now pester him for the source! Just kidding.
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Awesome! This guy is great!
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Timmy51m wrote:
Way to go! Now pester him for the source! Just kidding.This is something i was thinking about yet again today. Whilst we cannot pester him for source code for obvious reasons, I am wondering whether it wouldn’t be too much to ask this guy where we should direct enquires to ask if they’d consider releasing the source code for the game!
It has been done several times with MS - there was Space Allegiance (I think it’s called) and the Mech Warrior series I understand.
The key to all this is not just asking the right question, but asking the right person… Would he have any idea as to who within Microsoft we should direct a request, along with the petition web address, and see what transpires? It is coming up to 7 years since release, so…
Just emailing people at Microsoft will serve no purpose. You need someone who is sympathetic to the sorts of community plights over games. Lawyers or heads of departments are not likely to be those
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if that doesn’t work there is another thing left to ask…if they could redirect the dns entry for the GLS to Crazy’s stuff.
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Bas wrote:
if that doesn’t work there is another thing left to ask…if they could redirect the dns entry for the GLS to Crazy’s stuff.They added it to the page
I was bumping this as I posted a related addition considering Timmy’s post two posts before it:P -
Nah, I was talking about that they might could redirect the DNS directly to Crazy’s server so no changes are necessary at the FL client.
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Would be worth a try.
Last time I’ve asked, the MS legal team said that they can’t redirect a MS DNS to an “unsecured” server.
Secured to them seems to mean a server hosted in a MS datacenter.I even talked to akataka about “renting” a MS server back in time.
The costs would be around $3,300/year and even with the money he would be very suprised if they’d even do it.
