It was GameSpy reader Matthew 'SuperBitch' Pratt who first noticed it and dropped us an email. For years GameSpy has listed the most popular online games, by players currently on the servers, on our front page and on our stats page. We can track any game that uses GameSpy technology -- which at this point is most online PC games with the exception of MMOGs -- and the player counts represent how many people are on the game servers regardless of how they connected.
Since we started tracking those statistics, for something like the last six years Half-Life has been on the top of the heap. Thanks mostly to Counter-Strike, Half-Life has often had four times as many players as the next most popular game. Recently it's been sharing the spotlight with Half-Life 2. But then, last night at about 7 PM Pacific time, Battlefield 2 supassed the mighty Half-Life. As I write this HL has resumed the top position, but the games are very close. Unfortunately, consecutive user stats for massively multiplayer games like EverQuest or World of Warcraft are generally closely guarded secrets so we don't have a good basis of comparison to see how these games stack up overall. -Fargo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfred Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:02 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] RE: [hlds_linux] VAC2 Beta information The VAC2 client in the game server attempts to use port 27014 for its communitcations. If it fails to bind to that port then it will keep adding one to the port (i.e 27015 next) until it finds a free port. If you run multiple servers it is possible to have a problem when the servers start up in the wrong order. You can use the "-steamport" parameter (under Source) to force a particular port to prevent this conflict (the next HL1 release will contain this feature also). - Alfred ----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Agent|BeNt Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 7:12 AM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] RE: [hlds_linux] VAC2 Beta information > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alfred Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is just another nudge, make sure to use "-vacbeta" on your HL1 > > servers. There will be a release in the next few weeks to enable > > VAC2 by default on servers (with the same command line options as > > VAC1). > > > > - Alfred > > Alfred I know you guys said before about port :27014 is for VAC2.Will > we run into problems if we run -vacbeta on multiple servers on the > same box?Before I was running into connection issues with both of my > servers running that.If there's a work around please share this > information with us.And if there is no problem let me know too.I've > skipped running Vac2 beta on my main server because I thought there > was an issue with running both on the same VAC2 port.Anywho thanks, > > BeNt > http://www.gorillazsouth.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
