Talk:GameSpy

The software

Why there isn't an article on the software itself? And have everyone forgotten it's old name QuakeSpy? --Ypacaraí 17:08, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

I have corrected and updated the article now. It read too much like a GameSpy Industries self promotion and contained a lot of irrelevant information about Mark Surfas' personal career. I also removed a lot of references boasting how GameSpy compares favorably to other unrelated web companies. J. Straub 22:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The article looks fine enough, but it does have some issues: QSpy was called QSpy well into 1997, and was only renamed "GameSpy" after the release of Hexen 2. I know this as a fact, as my Quake gaming over the Internet begain sometime around July 1997 and QSpy was still called QSpy. Now I might not be a reliable source, but the atricle does mention Hexen 2 as the naming change point, cross-refs with Hexen 2's article would pinpoint the approximate time when the name change was made. 189.180.65.144 (talk) 18:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Merger Info is Accurate

The transaction was a cash purchase of GameSpy funded by the private equity firm Great Hill Partners - same people who took IGN private in the previous year. Surfas turned down the offer to join the board and did not serve with management.

With that extra info available, I was able to verify those facts as accurate. Might be worth restoring the original info then. Thanks for the info! DigitalAvatar 14:39, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup

This article contains POV and reads like an advertisement. It needs to be cleaned up.Some guy 18:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

    Doesn't really seem all that POV.... Outsidethewall 00:59, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Link to Joe Powel is wrong. Please, fix.

I also don't think it sounds very POV. Does it seem POV to anyone else? If not, perhaps someone else would like to consider removing the cleanup tag, which has been in place for over a year. I work at a department at GameSpy and don't want to edit one of our own articles. Jschuur 00:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

It really does read like a PR article. RogerWilco was never a rival of Vent or Teamspeak. It tried to be. But neglect made it was bloatware. It was never improved upon even though the communities pleaded with Gamespy to do so. Instead, they stuck their button on the bottom of the installer and on the bottom of the UI. No mention of the MPlayer community switching to MPlayer Europe or MPlayer South Asia to avoid using Gamespy. No mention of how it took Gamespy a year to fix their integration of MPlayer's servers and games. No mention of how their slow to act attitude lead to companies making their own game server platform. For example Interplay's Dynaverse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.72.137.94 (talk) 15:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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Dave Kosak

Why is there absolutely no mention of Dave Kosak? He's a founding member of GameSpy and was with it until February of this year. Revrant (talk) 22:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

GameSpy Comrade?

Why there is still no mentioning of GameSpy Comrade in the article, and why there is still no separate article for it? --Masterius (talk) 19:25, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Fanboyism/Hatred for lionhead studios

C'mon its common knowldege that gamespy is playstation/sony fanboys with a particular hatred for lionhead studios so im going to make a massive section of the critism of gamespy and its fanboyism and i will police it throughly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.175.144.84 (talk) 00:20, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

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PlanetQuake?

Why does PlanetQuake redirect here? I wanted info on the famous PlanetQuake website, not the GameSpy product! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.187.23.68 (talk) 12:04, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

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