JKKDARK
December 17th, 2007, 19:31
The news are from November, but I just want to tell it to you people, since it wasn't posted before. And it is sad, even I considered to buy this old handheld because it was cheap and it had online games.
via N-Gage official forum (http://forums.arena.n-gage.com/nokia/board/message?board.id=3&thread.id=44518)
Well guys. I think you all knew it was coming sooner or later, but I wanted to officially announce it here in the N-Gage community. As hinted on the past few weeks and as mentioned in the announcments, In order to prepare the new and improved backend servers and databases for the Next Generation launch, the old Arena game servers and arena features will be shutting down on Dec. 5th @10am PST. After this date, the Arena features of the old N-Gage games will no longer be available.
It's been a long run, and i'm sure you know if there was anyway we (and/or redrum) could have kept up the old arena servers we would have, but they are running on some old backend technology, and also with the way the new Next Generation architecure is built, there was no way for us to keep the old arena games and its functionality running without allowing for us to improve upon the next generation backend performance and make it the best and fastest it can be this time around.
When the next generation launches, not only will I be looking to you veterans of the N-Gage to help debug the launch, but as always we value your expertise, opinions, and comments, so please take some time to fill out this quick Next Generation N-Gage Survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=rMDKTvJSiweUyPv2Dh8PHg_3d_3d).
via N-Gage official forum (http://forums.arena.n-gage.com/nokia/board/message?board.id=3&thread.id=44518)
Well guys. I think you all knew it was coming sooner or later, but I wanted to officially announce it here in the N-Gage community. As hinted on the past few weeks and as mentioned in the announcments, In order to prepare the new and improved backend servers and databases for the Next Generation launch, the old Arena game servers and arena features will be shutting down on Dec. 5th @10am PST. After this date, the Arena features of the old N-Gage games will no longer be available.
It's been a long run, and i'm sure you know if there was anyway we (and/or redrum) could have kept up the old arena servers we would have, but they are running on some old backend technology, and also with the way the new Next Generation architecure is built, there was no way for us to keep the old arena games and its functionality running without allowing for us to improve upon the next generation backend performance and make it the best and fastest it can be this time around.
When the next generation launches, not only will I be looking to you veterans of the N-Gage to help debug the launch, but as always we value your expertise, opinions, and comments, so please take some time to fill out this quick Next Generation N-Gage Survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=rMDKTvJSiweUyPv2Dh8PHg_3d_3d).