Games Domain Multiplay Bites The Dust

Posted by Myers at 21:20 21/1/2003.

I found this on ESReality. Games Domain Multiplay, BT's gaming subscription service, will discontinue its services on February 17^th. To the CS community, the service was best known for running the Games Domain Online Championships last year.

BT has informed subscribers to its Games Domain branded multiplayer GSP that it intends to discontinue the services on February 17, less than a year and a half after its original launch in November 2001.
The Games Domain Multiplay service was aimed at PC gamers, providing a range of servers and community features for popular online PC games. However, senior staff at the company had warned over six months ago that reluctance among PC gamers to pay for online gaming could result in the death of the service within a matter of months.
Currently there are plenty of other UK GSPs, These include
bygames / thrustworld / wireplay and barrysworld.

Nothing has been said about the GDOC tournament, but it seems unlikely that the event will be run this year. For more info see the article on The Register.

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	DooMeh Lite 21:23 21/1/2003	no1 really wants to pay tho :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ripper Rush! 21:26 21/1/2003	aww this means no gdoc 03 ? ;( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smiffeh Game2XS.Monkey Magic 21:33 21/1/2003	;( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	emfive 21:36 21/1/2003	:[[[[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 21:38 21/1/2003	looks that way, bit of a shame cos their event last year was pretty decent [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Demo` 21:43 21/1/2003	s*** HAPPENS when u expect people to pay to play online games like cs [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NukeMasta 21:58 21/1/2003	well f***ing said demo!!! i pay 50 quid for my internet and dont expect to pay anything else unless its a massively multiplayer one :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Del` Sniper's Alley 22:43 21/1/2003	I paid for Barrysworld membership, but I personally thought they were the best GSP at the time, had been around 1 f*** of a long time, and I wanted them to stay around. Also their membership is only £14 a year, and you get loads - decent webspace, personal forum, and a really fast subscribers only ftp. Even though I've only played on Barry's gaming servers about 3 times since then, I think I've got my moneys worth, and I know they're not trying to make a buck, just cover costs. I would never pay more than £20 a year unless I was getting something truly decent/there was no alternative. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 23:11 21/1/2003	i have to agree with del` here, bw are just covering their cost and are a real service to all gamers [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ND 23:23 21/1/2003	damn, gdoc was a quality LAN. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Gryff 23:32 21/1/2003	Del - I also sub, and yes it was slow to start with, but things are picking up and most nights, people can be found actually playing games on BW now, give it a chance when your playing at night :-] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 23:37 21/1/2003	haha BT they just havent got a f***ing clue [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nick^ 00:02 22/1/2003	"i have to agree with del` here, bw are just covering their cost and are a real service to all gamers" Clearly why EB bought them then, not to make some moolah? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N38 00:56 22/1/2003	I think blueyonder should do some sort of LAN. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dr_Evil`` 01:38 22/1/2003	Ha, f*in money grabbing BT wkers have it. BT have done nothing for the UK community but f*** up the non pay per minute 56k and adsl services. I for one hope they learn a lot from this. They constantly drag their feet until Offtel kicks their arse and do nothing but keep the UK behind the rest of Europe in terms of internet access. Heres to hoping that cable owns them in the future... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N38 05:06 22/1/2003	Someone seems p*ed off. I know what you mean, all these multi-billion pound companies like Intel/BT think they can throw a competition together, ok GODC was good, but the ratio of prize money for the clans : money made from the company is outrageous. And yes, BT have done f* all, their ADSL services are still as bad as they always have been, and we all know how that is ;) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N38 05:07 22/1/2003	But hey, i don't complain, only when i need to. Like i said before, BY, or another top ISP should consider doing a LAN tournament, they always have the marketing capability for it; of course. So why not? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wolfie WanadooWolfie 07:24 22/1/2003	i gotta reason..... they cannot be bothered. although tommorrow there will be "BY LAN Tourny" just to spite me =/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Nick^ 10:20 22/1/2003	Will be funny if Velvet et al are adminning. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	shads theb0g 11:54 22/1/2003	none of theb0g would be allowed in :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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