Is this for real? HoN ends at 20 june

[cairosuite 2]

People are still playing BF2 on private servers. Is it possible to run community hosted servers for HoN?

[G5N5TIX 2]

Could we have a number which is needed so we can keep the servers alive..? 

[NogiOsminogi 5]

13 minutes ago, cairosuite said:

People are still playing BF2 on private servers. Is it possible to run community hosted servers for HoN?

No way they'll allow this, Garena is too greedy. I've been asking them to allow custom maps hosting for years and got rejected every time.

[Play2CC 7]

if server costs, is really the problem, they would just allow people to run "private community servers"

The problem with server costs, support tickets,toxicity, smurfing and grefing would end, very quickly. Because the community servers could make up their own rules. And you can enforce things like "application uptake" - meaning you have to apply in order to join a server

Some of us own original copies of the game. Do we lop it into the trashcan ?  we own copies a the game but not the "right" to play it ?  typical 2022

I have hope though. There is a long time to June, a lot of things will happen before June 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2021 by Play2CC

[NogiOsminogi 5]

1 minute ago, Play2CC said:

if server cost, is really they problem, they would just allow people to run "private community servers"

The problem with server costs, support tickets,toxicity, smurfing and grefing would end, very quickly. Because the community servers could make up their own rules. And you can enforce things like "application uptake" - meaning you have to apply in order to join a server

Some of us own original copies of the game. Do we lop it into the trashcan ?  we own copies a the game but not the "right" to play it ?  typical 2022

I have hope though. There is a long time to June, a lot of things will happen before June 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, read the rules. You don't own your account and all donations are "donations".

"Frostburn owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Game. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content, or any other attributes associated with the Account or stored on the Service."

[Play2CC 7]

5 minutes ago, NogiOsminogi said:

Yes, read the rules. You don't own your account and all donations are "donations".

"Frostburn owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Game. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content, or any other attributes associated with the Account or stored on the Service."

Im pretty sure I own my cd copy, and the right to play the game contained on it

[D1sc3pt 1]

6 minutes ago, Play2CC said:

Im pretty sure I own my cd copy, and the right to play the game contained on it

I am sorry to tell you that this isnt the first case of game owners shutting down servers and literally killing any possibility to play it.

[Play2CC 7]

1 minute ago, D1sc3pt said:

I am sorry to tell you that this isnt the first case of game owners shutting down servers and literally killing any possibility to play it.

20$ game, I can live with that. I feel sorry for the community members who spend hundreds or thousands of $ on this game. Maybe not only to get skins, but to support HoN in general. Those are the people to really feel sorry about imho. But hey, as someone said "Buy this nice avatar, only 20$ .... o btw, you don't own any rights to what you just bought"

[Ceriss 26]

3 minutes ago, Play2CC said:

20$ game, I can live with that. I feel sorry for the community members who spend hundreds or thousands of $ on this game. Maybe not only to get skins, but to support HoN in general. Those are the people to really feel sorry about imho. But hey, as someone said "Buy this nice avatar, only 20$ .... o btw, you don't own any rights to what you just bought"

I myself spend a few hundreds of $ on this game and I dont regret spending even one $, because I had more then 10 years of constant fun and I met a lot of great people here, even thou I am not that great player and I havent been playing for last few years. But this is what happens with every single game and we all knew this would come some day.

[markusss90 0]

Kids crying now thanks

[V00D00JESTER 4]

Nooooo. Pls not. Playing since 2009. dont let it end.

[Fourshan 0]

Such horrible news. 2nd best game I ever played!

[DividedBy3 7]

I always believe that things can be saved. You never know what's gonna happen in the next 6 months... Keep believing.

We'll see... it's not gonna end this way.

Edited December 17, 2021 by Manu311

[cokeontits 6]

I believe we have ”the right” to know more about the reasoning behind this decision and if there is anything we can do as a community to stop it from happening

[Wife 13]

14 hours ago, Play2CC said:

20$ game, I can live with that. I feel sorry for the community members who spend hundreds or thousands of $ on this game. Maybe not only to get skins, but to support HoN in general. Those are the people to really feel sorry about imho. But hey, as someone said "Buy this nice avatar, only 20$ .... o btw, you don't own any rights to what you just bought"

Im not gonna lie i have spend like 12500$ för accounts, skins, support from 2010. I was even gifed a symbol from frostburns for huge support. I have 400+ sub accounts, 1100+ skins, all taunts, announcers and so on. What happens to all my stuff and items ?

Come on can frostburns please anwers in this thread. Can we donate / monthly for keep the game alive?

@ElementUser  @Stormeren @HyperXewl

Edited December 14, 2021 by Wife

[Lunarios 65]

2 hours ago, Wife said:

Im not gonna lie i have spend like 12500$ för accounts, skins, support from 2010. I was even gifed a symbol from frostburns for huge support. I have 400+ sub accounts, 1100+ skins, all taunts, announcers and so on. What happens to all my stuff and items ?

Come on can frostburns please anwers in this thread. Can we donate / monthly for keep the game alive?

@ElementUser  @Stormeren @HyperXewl

I think it's beyond this. Garena is a very large company that distributes one of the largest eSport game out there in the market (League of Legends) and many other large titles.

I think they have deeper reasoning as to why they are doing what they do, and I personally don't think a few millions or tens of millions of dollars would convince such a large company to change their decision.

Edited December 14, 2021 by Lunarios

[Ondis 39]

3 hours ago, Wife said:

Im not gonna lie i have spend like 12500$ för accounts, skins, support from 2010. I was even gifed a symbol from frostburns for huge support. I have 400+ sub accounts, 1100+ skins, all taunts, announcers and so on. What happens to all my stuff and items ?

Come on can frostburns please anwers in this thread. Can we donate / monthly for keep the game alive?

@ElementUser  @Stormeren @HyperXewl

Why do you have 400 sub accounts?  I mean basically if you're smurfing or stat resetting why not just do it on a few accounts many times?

[Wife 13]

1 hour ago, Ondis said:

Why do you have 400 sub accounts?  I mean basically if you're smurfing or stat resetting why not just do it on a few accounts many times?

Yea I know but wanted names to

[Ceriss 26]

5 minutes ago, Acnowlogia said:

Go for this

https://chng.it/x5fWfPtv4h

It has been discussed million times over and over again, and why do you think this will succeed, when they already has dota2?

[Brusom 1]

1 hour ago, Ceriss said:

It has been discussed million times over and over again, and why do you think this will succeed, when they already has dota2?

because hon is a lot better then DOTA2. like dota2 dont even have iron buckler bro. Axe still has useless hunger ability HoN made so many improvments dota still like playing 2005 WC3 mod

[Ladonien 15]

7 minutes ago, DutchPleb87 said:

There has not been given a real reason as to why the game is suddenly scheduled to be shut down.

And private servers / LAN functionality should be possible right? We have a different client than in SEA-region / Garena, I dont fully understand. Has Garena made the call to Frostburn to tell them that they are shutting the servers down, due to the costs? I just don't get it. 

The game can't just disappear into darkness just, like that. That would not make sense. 

There are some conspiracy theories going around right now as to why it is the case but I won't say it here as I don't want to get suspended on the forums.

[Ladonien 15]

9 minutes ago, StupidGMs said:

Hopefully someone here can make a decent clone and put it on Steam,  I'm sure there will be some backers and people to spend money,  I'd buy it myself to continue playing.

Hopefully it would be using the K2 engine, which was why I loved HoN. Maybe there will be a K3 engine in the future?

[mendemizo 0]

Sad news, account created in closed beta and still counting..

[Ladonien 15]

44 minutes ago, CuysauruS said:

COD2 is the best WWII themed FPS and I think it is not supported by Activision anymore. It has an awesome community named "Outlaw" with its own server and discord. I think HoN can follow this path, if there won't be an official support from Garena or any other company.

Similiar with CoD4x even though there might not be as many players as it used to be.

[Manu311 175]

3 hours ago, DutchPleb87 said:

And private servers / LAN functionality should be possible right? We have a different client than in SEA-region / Garena, I dont fully understand. Has Garena made the call to Frostburn to tell them that they are shutting the servers down, due to the costs? I just don't get it. 

HoN belongs to Garena. If Garena decides HoN dies, than FB can complain but aside of that there is probably nothing they can do about it.
I haven't heard an official reason for why they are shutting it down, but it's probably mostly just a burden for them which generates no income.