VICTIM OF JOLT ONLINE GAMING- EARTH:2025 CLOSING DOWN

[The Republic of Lanos]

And this surprises you how? Jolt is run by a bunch of gutless unimaginative, humour-deprived accountants who are no better than a bunch of snivelling Ferengi. Let 'em keep their gold slips of latinum, but they will never see the divine treasury because they failed to properly follow the rules of acquisition.

Jolt
the same fuckers that fucked over NS2.

BRING BACK NS2!

[The Republic of Lanos]

Taken from what appears to be a recent wikipedia edit:

Sadly, on November 4, 2009, the evil overlords at OMAC announced their intentions to kill the game they'ed been neglecting for years.

[Klaus Devestatorie]

And this surprises you how? Jolt is run by a bunch of gutless unimaginative, humour-deprived accountants who are no better than a bunch of snivelling Ferengi. Let 'em keep their gold slips of latinum, but they will never see the divine treasury because they failed to properly follow the rules of acquisition.

It doesnt suprise us... We've been expecting Jolt to close us down for more than a year, and the original owner made comments indicating he hated the Earth:2025 community years and years and years ago, maybe even before NationStates. The original rumor is that Earth was only sold to them because the original owner wouldnt sell them the game them the game they really wanted without adding this in as a package deal. But actually... killing it... it's like jumping off a cliff. You expect to jump off the cliff, and then you are actually confronted with the cliff and have to look over the edge...

[Erich Dahmer]

Bandwidth isn't free. If Jolt didn't want to carry the game anymore then they should have every right to take the contract to arbitration to terminate it. Jolt is a business and businesses need to make money to survive. Stop expecting everyone else to work for free just so you can have a good time.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

[Maurepas]

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as generous with their intellectual property as Max...

[Kanabia]

That's a shame, I used to play it a long time ago and it wasn't bad.

[Maurepas]

And this surprises you how? Jolt is run by a bunch of gutless unimaginative, humour-deprived accountants who are no better than a bunch of snivelling Ferengi. Let 'em keep their gold slips of latinum, but they will never see the divine treasury because they failed to properly follow the rules of acquisition.

Jolt
the same fuckers that fucked over NS2.

BRING BACK NS2!

Meh, NS2 sucked, the new features didnt work, and they made you pay for things you got here for free...the only differences was a little history section, and some nice graphics...

Nothing that NS1+NSTracker+NSWiki doesnt already do just fine...in fact the latter two do it much better....

[Icezealand]

R.I.P. Earth, how I will miss hoarding nuclear missiles and sending them en masse at the person above me on the penultimate day of the round. I hope Utopia doesn't die next.

[The Scandinvans]

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as generous with their intellectual property as Max...

To note, we of NS should buy Max's book in order to properly thank him. Now if I could only find one of his books...

[Charlotte Ryberg]

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as generous with their intellectual property as Max...

To be honest I was thinking about a possible incorporation of Earth 2025 into NationStates (but then some changes would have to be made to avoid copyright infringement). Or I could invite them over here, making NationStates a successor to Earth 2025.

Just my thoughts there.

[Reploid Productions]

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as generous with their intellectual property as Max...

To be honest I was thinking about a possible incorporation of Earth 2025 into NationStates (but then some changes would have to be made to avoid copyright infringement). Or I could invite them over here, making NationStates a successor to Earth 2025.

Just my thoughts there.

Well, I don't think Max would necessarily want to incorporate Earth 2025 stuff into Nationstates on any sort of official level. Too much code work and I don't necessarily think that the two games are particularly compatible, what with NS lacking war and an oft-stated note that it won't be added.

But if a bunch of Earth 2025 players want to make NS a new home, I don't see anybody here telling them to GTFO

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Well, I took the liberty of adding my support for the Earth 2025 community.

[Call to power]

to be fair though the game wasn't exactly a smash hit

bawww

fixed.

[Post-Unity Terra]

Fuck, this is terrible. Earth was a fantastic slayer of highschool lunchtimes.

[Ordo Mallus]

If they're not going to make a profit on the game they have to close it down. its like me opening a 64 slot CSS zmod server and not having any way to pay for it. Don't get all pissy bout someone shutting down a game because they can't afford to keep it running anymore.

[Post-Unity Terra]

If they're not going to make a profit on the game they have to close it down. its like me opening a 64 slot CSS zmod server and not having any way to pay for it. Don't get all pissy bout someone shutting down a game because they can't afford to keep it running anymore.

Economics don't affect the fact that Earth was/is awesome and shutting it down sucks monkey dongs.

[Daistallia 2104]

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as generous with their intellectual property as Max...

To be honest I was thinking about a possible incorporation of Earth 2025 into NationStates (but then some changes would have to be made to avoid copyright infringement). Or I could invite them over here, making NationStates a successor to Earth 2025.

Just my thoughts there.

Well, I don't think Max would necessarily want to incorporate Earth 2025 stuff into Nationstates on any sort of official level. Too much code work and I don't necessarily think that the two games are particularly compatible, what with NS lacking war and an oft-stated note that it won't be added.

But if a bunch of Earth 2025 players want to make NS a new home, I don't see anybody here telling them to GTFO

Indeed. Although, of all the nation sim type games I've played with actual war & economics engines, Earth: 2025 had the best. Not arcane and micromanaged like SimCountry. Not stupid like Cybernations. And not like OMAC's NS2.

If I were Jolt right now, I'd give Earth: 2025 to the players. Now, I might have rarely heard of the game but, profit, size, whatever... it's still a community.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as generous with their intellectual property as Max...

To note, we of NS should buy Max's book in order to properly thank him. Now if I could only find one of his books...

Ask and you shall recieve: http://maxbarry.com/jennifergovernment/buy.html

[Hairless Kitten II]

Is Jolt a big company?

[Daistallia 2104]

Is Jolt a big company?

OMAC, not Jolt, is the power behind it all. They'd screwed up enough that their website was unavailable last time I looked...

[Hairless Kitten II]

Is Jolt a big company?

OMAC, not Jolt, is the power behind it all. They'd screwed up enough that their website was unavailable last time I looked...

Ok and OMAC, is that a big one?

[Meoton]

Why doesn't JOLT release the game's source code. They aren't using it anymore. Let the gamers have it.

[Hairless Kitten II]

Why doesn't JOLT release the game's source code. They aren't using it anymore. Let the gamers have it.

Why should they? If it's their property then they can do with it what they want.

And maybe the source code is holding development 'secrets & tricks' that could feed the competition...

Or maybe the source code is so disgusting bad, that they are ashamed to make it public.

[Daistallia 2104]

Why doesn't JOLT release the game's source code. They aren't using it anymore. Let the gamers have it.

Because it's that bad.

Why should they? If it's their property then they can do with it what they want.

And maybe the source code is holding development 'secrets & tricks' that could feed the competition...

Or maybe the source code is so disgusting bad, that they are ashamed to make it public.

If you want, I'll go dig up the post the president Dylan Colins made regarding how NS2 was full of lessons on how not to do things.Fucking coward couldn't admit it to the NS community, and had to go post it on another forum. (Note: I don't think he ever posted on either the Jolt NS forums or the NS2 forums.)

[The Republic of Lanos]

Or maybe the source code is so disgusting bad, that they are ashamed to make it public.

Hence, NS2?