Sincere apologies to our fans and customers for the complete lack of notice on this interruption of service, and for the lack of information we have been able to provide to this point. I go on vacation for 3 days and all hell breaks loose. Murphy really, really hates me.
As has been stated before, GPG was not notified that the service provided by our Quazal partners to run GPGNet was being terminated.
We are now investigating our options, and the only thing I can say for sure is GPGNet won't be back up this week, and that we have successfully contacted THQ, Quazal, and Square Enix about the options we have in front of us, and how they are willing to help.
As some have speculated, our worst case scenario is that we could be legally prevented from ever bringing GPGNet back in any form, since we don't technically own the IP (Square Enix), the backbone and data (Quazal), or the contract (THQ), but we are obviously doing everything we can to negotiate something better than that with what little leverage we have.
I will use this post to provide updates and progress as we receive them, but do not want to miss an opportunity to thank the legions of fans, modders, volunteer moderators, admins, and tournament directors who have poured years of their life into making GPGNet a place that so many could call home. The game and matchmaking was something good, but the community was something amazing.
I hope you will all continue using these forums (GPG owns them, you can pry them from our cold, dead hands!) to keep on top of friendships and projects that are important to us as we proceed with the investigation.
- Servo
