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GameArena Firewalled

Post by Term @ 01:22pm 10/10/02 | 86 Comments

For those of you that haven't been following the current movements at Australia's largest game service Telstra GameArena, they've made a new game client, with authentication, and shortly, you'll no longer be able to play on any GameArena server unless you are logged into COGS.

The first game to move to COGS only is Battlefield, GameArena have eight battlefield servers (about 60% of all spots in Australia for the game). You'll no longer be able to see Battlefield on any gamelist, nore the ingame browser, the only place you can join GameArena Battlefield servers from, is the COGS client. Download it here.

Over the next few days other games on GameArena will have the same requirement, including Counter-Strike, DOD, and TFC. A linux version will be released tomorrow, for those people that play halflife under linux.

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Term
Posted 01:32pm 10/10/02

humm, we got some plans for you guys anyway teq, but in theory you could just log it in in the morning then they wont have to worry about it

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spag
Posted 01:35pm 10/10/02

next make it so only Telstra broadband customers can jump on the servers :-P

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mojo
Posted 01:38pm 10/10/02

wish optus was good with gameing, its pretty average. but it has gotten better

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Term
Posted 01:56pm 10/10/02

no it doesnt, any person on any isp can play on gamearena, they just need to install cogs to do so

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Term
Posted 02:06pm 10/10/02

theres an option in the options dialouge called minimize on connct, you'll find it fixes that issue.

Teen: there is an SDK available for you to do whatever you want, Available in both C++ and Delphi

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aragawn
Posted 02:16pm 10/10/02

sounds like spyware to me!

COGS is really a trojan that sucks the RAM of of your computer and transmits it over the interweb to Telstra's head office so they can use it in their game servers.

BEWARE!

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trog
Posted 02:43pm 10/10/02

open source software sucks though, except quake and quake 2 and doom and wolf and serverquery

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thetron
Posted 03:32pm 10/10/02

someone mention this at the local lan

i am not sure about

as long as i can play games with out COGS lagging me on 56k'er more
btw could we get a mirror on ausgamers please, the GA servers full

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Belgarion
Posted 03:49pm 10/10/02

all I can say is damn I'm glad i'm no longer on BPA and stuck with using the GA servers, I know I couldn't be stuffed trying to use this... oh well, no Battlefield on GA anymore, meh...

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drizzy
Posted 11:12pm 10/10/02

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