GameSurge
General Information
GameSurge is a popular Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the online multiplayer gaming community. Games commonly seen referenced on GameSurge include many first person shooters (such as Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 2) and MMORPGs (such as World of Warcraft and GuildWars). GameSurge currently averages approximately 27,000 users at any given time.
Services
GameSurge runs a feature-rich package of services known as srvx, which was written by GameSurge's development staff from scratch in C.
GameSurge provides four user-accessible services:
- AuthServ, which provides authentication for other services on the network and allows users to use an account that allows them to maintain channel access. In the interests of providing a service directed toward gaming (and thus allowing users to easily switch clan/team/guild tags), GameSurge does not provide nick registration.
- ChanServ, which provides facilities such as event logging and advanced user/ban management.
- HelpServ bots, which manage support requests in certain channels, which are dealt with as a FIFO queue.
- HelpServ, in the #support channel, for general user support.
- RegServ, in the #registration channel, for the specific purpose of channel registration.
- Other HelpServ bots in miscellaneous help channels throughout the network.
- HostServ, which provides free "titles" to users wishing to use cloaked hosts. See the GameSurge Titles page for details.
Useful Channels
- Help/Official Network Channels
- #GameSurge - Main network discussion channel
- #help - General help channel
- #support - Staff assistance channel
- #registration - Go here to register a channel
- #script - Scripting help/discussion channel
- Other Useful Channels
- #irpg - IdleRPG game
- #findscrim - Scrim finding channel
- #calscrim - CALeague scrim finding channel
- #findringer - Ringer finding channel
History
Originally known as GamesNET, the network became known as GameSurge when it merged with the ProGamePlayer Network. The merge was due to a legal dispute over the domain name gamesnet.net and common interests between the two networks. GameSurge (while still known as GamesNET) originally gained popularity as a home for the North American Quakeworld Team Fortress community. This is turn led to its popularity with players of Half-Life's Team Fortress Classic, which in turn led to it becoming the standard network for players of Counter-Strike. As Counter-Strike's player base, and therefore clan community swelled, so did GameSurge's user base. During Counter-Strike's beta days, there were "release parties" for new versions.