So Game Rail decide it’s time to bite the dust. After a few days of dropping the servers, they posted a message in their website that they are closing now.
It is with deep regret to announce that the GameRail network has been discontinued at this time. Thank you to the gamers who have participated in the GameRail trial and support of its development as we worked to solve the issues of latency and network quality and their impact on gaming. We believe that latency and network quality will continue to affect the gaming experience and while we are still believers in the GameRail concept, the market does not appear to be ready to support a standalone network for gaming at this time.
I don’t feel bad at all other than we’re losing our game servers from them. We’ve been sending them good traffic as far as my website stats are concerned. And I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more websites that were sending them some good traffic too. But they didn’t ignore those game communities…Game Rail however decided to ignore us. Oh well, what’s done is done. Good riddance.
We lost four 32 slot servers now (WA, TX, IL, and NY). That’ll have a big hit on our user population even if the Branzone servers are in the top 10 list of the best game servers worldwide. I would ask Branzone now if they can provide us yet again with a couple new servers, but I just ask them for one a couple of weeks ago…which means I’d be asking them too much (In my opinion) in a month. I told myself to ask the PGN sponsors once a month and to never go over that.
I mean, Branzone has been providing us with their top of the line game servers. The Optimized HL1 servers from Branzone cost $3.00/slot. And I just don’t know if this is having an impact on their system. Are they losing money on PGN? Or are they gaining more customers? I wouldn’t dare ask though…maybe I could, but not now.
Well…time will tell. As long as PGN can keep those traffic going to Branzone consistent then hopefully it would be a plus when I’m going to ask for more servers.
