[Inquisitor]

Speaking of Gametap.

Has anyone tried to use the GT versions of the VPs with SCP?

[Mongoose]

GameTap games are all stored locally in what appears to be a proprietary container-esque format.  To the best of my knowledge, none of them support any exterior mods/patches, and FS2 is no exception.

[Inquisitor]

That's a bummer.

[RazorsKiss]

Also, providing your enhancements to a pay-to-play service might be a violation of the original code release EULA, wouldn't it?

I'm sure not enthused about Gametap, personally.  When they picked up Tachyon: The Fringe, Novalogic locked us all out of any way to host private games, and changed it so only their "official" server could be used.  There's also a specific clause in the EULA that forbids anyone from creating a 3rd-party hosting/matchmaking service for the game.

However, most of that is just typical Novalogic.  They have a tendency to use a sledgehammer to crush an annoying fly.

[Mongoose]

Razorkiss, Tachyon isn't alone in that; I think multiplayer's pretty much been disabled across the board on the titles that GameTap picks up (except for the "challenge mode" for classic arcade games, that is).  However, I have heard that they'd like to enable multiplayer games at some point in the future, so we'll  see.

What I do know is that I feel that GameTap has been worth my money many times over.  Unlimited play of almost a thousand titles from just about every era and platform, Sam & Max, Myst Online: Uru Live...all for $25 or so every three months (and it'd be even less if I went with a full year's subscription).  That's good stuff as far as I'm concerned.

[Inquisitor]

Not all of them, actually, our game worked on GT.

[Mongoose]

Hmm...I wonder if they were able to work something out with certain publishers, then.

[Inquisitor]

To my knowledge, we did nothing special with Lore to get it to work.We just told them it had multiplayer. It was a busy couple weeks after launch, lots of GT players.

Dunno. A little bummed about the FS2 version though, was hoping for a cheap, legal way to get the VP's to people. C'est la vie.