Talk:GameSpy Arcade

Cleanup

I added the cleanup and citations tag. The citations explains itself - there are none in the article. The cleanup is because the whole sections are poorly written and some parts are what I'd expect from a forum posting not an encyclopedia article. This article makes Wikipedia look very poor. A rewrite by someone with knowledge of the topic is required. Alexj2002 21:45, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree with AlexJ2002 here. Further to this I have removed all present tags and added a complete rewrite tag. The article presently has numerous grammatical and spelling errors, as well as rather confusing and irrelevant sections. Solidenterprises 04:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I have rewritten the article and deleted some irrelevant sections. I have marked it as wikify as it needs some wikilinks put in. Solidenterprises 03:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

outdated part

"Gamespy has often been criticized for showing more concern regarding minor issues such as swearing inside the programs chat system, while the issue of spam is left unattended to. More recently, the issue of spam has been given more focus, with a new warning message whenever a user joins a game lobby."

This part seems outdated to me, Im using GamespyArcade daily, dont get messages regarding this except for maybe 1 or 2 of 200 lobby's.. bots and some admins are in place to prevent spam and abuse, (although not covered 100%.)

History

It should be mentioned that this product began as a server browser for Quake. It was then known as QuakeSpy and later became GameSpy. Perhaps a history section should be added? kmwatcha

Downsides?

Does this (the Arcade) have any major downsides? Such as, perhaps, does it give your e-mail address to any spam companies?

209.180.232.189 02:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Gamespy arcade logo.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

"Basic users" can be created for free at the GameSpy website.

how should this work? they only let me download their software which i don't trust and don't need. i just need to register (test drive unlimited only askes for the id) - but it dosn't work like some years before. --217.84.46.172 (talk) 17:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

ahhh. www.gamespyid.com seems to be the right link to it. --217.84.46.172 (talk) 18:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Volunteers

Shouldn't there be an article about the GameSpy Volunteers, as they still exist? http://www.gamespyvolunteers.com --Vdwijngaert (talk) 14:38, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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