Westwood online stats on XWIS ???!!

[juulepuul]

Hi my bud and I were playing on WOL and suddenly I saw XWIS notifications everywhere !!
And yes ! the games were logged on XWIS !!??!!

Does this mean we automatically play on XWIS now ??
W0000000000000T

Too bad for my home-made WOL ladder but this is even better !

:color1::color3:

[Madge]

Please be more specific. Do you mean you were on WOL, but were redirected to XWIS? Can you chat in the lobby? What is going on? Someone tell me! :eek:

[Statalyzer]

Yes, seriously, use your inhaler and then let us know what exactly happened.

[papsarmy]

Below is an Official announcement from APOC (AKA Aaron Kauffman from EA)


EA Partners with XWIS Community Service



Greetings from your C&C Community Manager!



To continue the ten year anniversary celebration of the widely popular Command and Conquer franchise, I am pleased to reveal EA’s partnership with XWIS (XCC WOL IRC SERVER)!



Through this partnership, all Command and Conquer games formerly supported by EA/Westwood Online will be redirected through XWIS, thus instituting XWIS as the main online game server management team. XWIS is a community driven online game server that launched in October 2003 to replace the XCC Community Ladder. The new and improved features enabled include chat, in-game ranks, matching filters, lobby monitoring, improved Quick-Match, and fully functional automatic ladders for clans and individual tournament players. The beauty of this partnership is that you won’t have to download any external programs to utilize XWIS. All the enabled features and connections to the servers are already integrated into the supported games!



I’m also excited to share with you that the Strike Team will be monitoring the banning and anti-cheat controls on a daily basis and will provide technical support as needed. The Strike Team is a website built of hardcore Command and Conquer fans and is sponsored by the EA German Community Team. Their goal is to ensure a controlled and fun online environment for all players.



XWIS will commence a two week trial period with Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge. Once this trial is completed on Oct. 20th, XWIS will be supporting the following EA/Westwood online games:

* Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
* Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn
* Command & Conquer The Covert Operations
* Command & Conquer Red Alert
* Command & Conquer Red Alert: Counterstrike
* Command & Conquer Red Alert: Aftermath
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun: Firestorm
* Command & Conquer Renegade
* Dune 2000
* Nox
* Emperor: Battle for Dune



EA is 100% dedicated to the Command and Conquer franchise and wants to ensure a strong and secure online gameplay environment. Long live Command and Conquer! We hope to see resurgence in the legions of NOD and GDI followers claiming ground online.



Good luck soldier. Hit the hot keys and get online with Command and Conquer!



--Apoc







APOC

Community Manager & Marketing Liaison

Electronic Arts LA





“every day is community day”

[XaudiTT]

Lol DGNF forums are full of that post, Paps

[Massacure]

This is sweet. It would be hallarious if traffic picked up again.

[juulepuul]

Traffic is BOOOOMING !!
quickmatch is ping-pong and your in the loading screen.
yesterday 700 players online. The ladder has suddenly 1500 players ranked already (in one day !)

Just start ra2 go online..

Chat enabled
a ladder
FAST servers
etc etc etc

whoops gotta delete my sig... my ladder is obsolete now !

[Madge]

Why did they do this now and not 2 years ago? Why Lord? Anyone have a disc I can borrow? :wave:

[Statalyzer]

[Pressing F12 as Soviets]

Ahhhh.....Victory!

[Madge]

EA pressing whatever "f" button it is for Libya while talking to XWIS:

"Why don't you drive?"

[YuriRuler90]

Madge, I'll PM you about the CDs.

[Madge]

LOL, it was a joke.

[XaudiTT]

Why did they do this now and not 2 years ago?


Perhaps because at that time EA cared about ra2. The term " cared " is only intended in "offering their servers", obviously. And at that time XWIS was more likely an alternative funny server but nothing of official. Possibly now EA needs those servers and they decided to give WOL to XWIS and they had to do that 2 years ago, indeed.
Anyway now we have a pretty decent server where to play.

[Massacure]

Running online servers for videogames eats up a lot of bandwith and thus money. It is cheaper for EA to take them down then to leave them up unmoderated.

[Piscinex]

But EA holds the actual XWIS servers. Okay it's a different division of EA (the German Community Team as opposed to EA LA) but it is all one company, and it's hosted in a European data centre owned by EA.

And WOL/XWIS are just IRC servers: those aren't particularly expensive to run.

[Olaf van der Spek]

And WOL/XWIS are just IRC servers: those aren't particularly expensive to run.
I don't think EA is concerned about the hardware/network costs at all.

[Sandboy23]

:evil: Naa i cant help you there dude?:evil:

[EliteGi]

So that's what your psychiatrist said!?

[ra2unit]

XWIS is BS

[Chronotrooper]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ive heard so much about XWiS but i never knew what itwas

quick!
someone give me the link to downlaod!

ill see you on XWIS;)

[Apaxteam]

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