*DAMN R6 Forum

Today I heard a rumour and saw intense chatting about it in GR:

Rumor : apple is coming out with a new gaming service called "apple gaming". It will be a yearly charge for access and it is supposed to outdo gameranger as far as options. Plus connectivity w/ iChat to directly link games from private messages.

Pretest for a special "mac game hardware" should be the MacMini. In addition Scott K. was contacted to provide knowledge and infrastructure for this service.

Wee, so we could get soon an "apple ranger"? lol

Hmmm im not sure weather to laugh or pray...

If this happens I will laugh a hearty laugh, then but Steve Jobs instead of Scott Kevill.

I'm sure kevill will still be in there somewhere. He's got mad user base as well as the infrastructure already in place. We're a prebuilt market!!

... But whats in it for apple? a yearly fee... smells like .mac

hmm if .mac came with a gaming service that would be a mighty fine idea of pushing the gaming market up a touch...

.Mac idea is pushing my speculation on the service. Recently apple offered developers a free .Mac SDK to integrate into their applications. I think this is the beginning of software distribution via the internet in a much more serious way. A apple gaming service could push game purchase and DL via internet.

well in terms of buying games online they have it all there - and its not hard to integrate into the itms in that sense of 'one click purchasing'  .. but i don't think its there - it think the emphasis here is on a sense of integration definatly - and .mac seems to be the 'internet services' setup that a gaming service would fit into perfectly - idisk, mail services, web-hosting, game hosting... just fits very nicely

... I don't supose Scott is exactly going to post here and enlighten us to all these rumors however! ;)

It would save places like amazon.com to have one click buying.

I dunno if Apple would do something like that, though. Gameranger is (pretty) well-known in the Mac community, and pushing him out so Apple could have it's own thing just doesn't seem very Appleish. Bad public-relations, yanno?

Unless they are doing a itunes style software deal where they buy the techology and 'applefy' it to look all smexy etc. Scott gets loadsa money, keeps his job, and GR suddenly has big money behind it...

** Wakes up again **

heeey, i had the same dream... it can't be coincidence! ::)

Apple weuld get fewer players and people would stay on GR if we had to pay to play.  At Apple.

I think it's actually very like apple to expand into the market of successful third party software makers.

I would have to disagree. So many people are paying for GR Premium, I don't think they'll hesitate to pay for an Apple gaming service...  I know I wouldn't hesitate to drop some more money into Apple for a new online gaming service.

Apple, I'm sure, would end up with many more users than GR over time.

Apple needs TV ads to draw in users. A gaming service along with all their other apps would add more authenticity.

There are several advantages - firstly they expand the .mac capabilities in a field that in my opinion apple have been pretty quiet on. secondly they can bundle this software with every single mac that leaves the factories which game-ranger can't do. thirdly they can show game developers etc that they are serious about mac gaming and with this help people to realise that mac gaming is a real option - if there is more support for mac gaming then your going to sell more macs, if you sell more macs your going to get more mac gamers.

In terms of mac gaming at the moment i see two huge problems. The first problem is called DirectX
the second is Middleware gaming technology (for instance phyics engines like havok)

They already did that with Konfabulator.

Once you pop start u can't stop (ripping off other applications) ;) 

Damnit pringles...i must be hungry

Konfabulator was a rip off of a application designed into pre OS7.

These sorts of rumors seem to come up pretty regurally, how often do they turn out to be anything?

Well, knowing Apple, they would probably hire Evill, and then integrate GR into their program. But what I still can't understand, is why make their own program... They have Evill, who already made it, so all they would probably ask him to do it integrate it with iChat, Mail, Safari, iTunes... Who knows!

One problem I have about it is the strictness. If Apple does buy GR with Evill still at the head of it, the restrictions will be so tight, it would be like GOD trying to penitrate some anal virgin, like Myst.

Who knows, I'm just a 17 year old who thinks of pessimistic ideas way too much... I need to grab a beer or something...

Blitz 8)

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more than 170 views and a hot topic icon is quite a nice score for the complete nonsense i wrote down at the start...
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but, of course, sometimes nonsense could become reality sooner than ecpected ... ::)
who knows

I wouldn't put it past apple yet. They are always doing what starts off as plain simple nonsense rumors.

It's happened before, just look, George Bush was elected a second term ::wall::

that's a whole different subject that's been brought up many times before Just thought I'de prove your point Red Dust

 ::lol:: Ah yes, 2nd term jokes...four more years.

Any progress on this iGame thingy ?

Latest I heard they were doing a rewrite of some major parts. That was before xmas. I guess that's all rumors and such but it could explain the delay. Anyone get any replies on emails they sent it? I haven't bothered yet.

They reply on emails pretty nicely.  Though I didn't really ask about progress they got back to me within a day.

Mind posting what they said?

so... really no reason to ???

Dark just likes posting.I bet you asked them to be in on the trial.

If you have questions etc about iGame you can also go visit their forums here! (http://triage-software.com/iGame/phpBB2/index.php)

This is going of become a war of cheap pops....

Hurray for iGame if it ever comes out. Booo to all other vapour ware.

Lob found this and posted it in our forum:

"       
 This is iGame and it will replace game Ranger:

http://mohaa.clanmacaddict.com/stuff.jpg

They have a web site with a forum. I think they are only giving beta copies to developers. Maybe some of you guys can have some pull with getting a copy.

Website:

http://www.triage-software.com/

Looks cool!!!

Lob "

Tirofino...

How will iGame replace GR exactly?, no one knows anything about it, the screenshots that "aparently" ended up coming out might be fake, they have delayed and delayed this igame from before christmas.

They say they have been working on this for 2 yrs now with no evidence that its a working app, apart from BFG who says it does work, where as Evill has had gameranger running for 5yrs or so which works and hardly anyone has probelms with, and 9 times out of 10 its problems down to hosting on your own mac due to people's configuration ie router.

Thing is, all that evill has asked for in the last couple of years is for help to keep GR running by paying a stupid cheap price for what it is.

If apple were to bring a gaming service out, and as part of a .mac deal, I would rather pay evil's price for a years service (for me £26.) compared to .mac which is £69 a year.

I really do find it funny also, that people would probably pay for a .mac gaming service and not pay evill's price, and more to the point, if this so called "iGame" service was payment only would you sign up?.

The Grass always looks greener on the other side.

onwig.