{"id":668,"date":"2005-07-12T04:06:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/12\/battlefield-2-and-gamespy\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T04:10:41","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T09:10:41","slug":"battlefield-2-and-gamespy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/12\/battlefield-2-and-gamespy\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 2 and Gamespy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eagames.com\/official\/battlefield\/battlefield2\/us\/home.jsp\">Battlefield 2<\/a> is currently enjoying a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/920407.asp?q=Battlefield%202\">91% average rating<\/a>, and with good reason.  However, the excellent in-game experience is really being hampered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespy.net\/matchmaking.php\">Gamespy powered server browser<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/quartertothree\/gamespy-psyduck.gif\" width=\"226\" height=\"315\"  alt=\"Gamespy Makes My Head Hurt.\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I can understand the allure to the production management of using a pre-existing in-game server browser solution, rather than paying for the development in-house, it doesn&#8217;t stop me from being annoyed at the situation.  Gamers have come to see &#8220;Powered by Gamespy&#8221; as a warning sign that the in-game server browser will be, at best, tolerable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not hard to see why third-party server browser software like <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesdomain.yahoo.com\/ase\/register\">All-Seeing Eye<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qtracker.com\/\">Qtracker<\/a> are still quite popular, despite the fact that nearly all modern online games ship with in-game browsers.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, however, I feel sorry for <a href=\"http:\/\/global.dice.se\/\">Digital Illusions CE<\/a>, as they&#8217;re the ones being blamed by less knowledgeable gamers for the travesty of the in-game browser, when the decision most likely came not from the developers, but from the producer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/\">Electronic Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield 2 is currently enjoying a 91% average rating, and with good reason. However, the excellent in-game experience is really being hampered by the Gamespy powered server browser. While I can understand the allure to the production management of using a pre-existing in-game server browser solution, rather than paying for the development in-house, it doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/12\/battlefield-2-and-gamespy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battlefield 2 and Gamespy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}