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Enshittification sure is fast
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It's Gamespy round 2 (also, what an awful name for an authentication service)
GameSpy wasn't an authentication service. It was a way to search for servers for games because the in game search usually sucked. When you launched the game from GameSpy it would simply send a command line argument with the IP address when calling the executable. Well that's how it worked initially.
It was indeed used as an authentication service. See Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 3 was released nearly 10 years after GameSpy became a thing. The name made a lot of sense for the original purpose of the product, and it did amazing things for multiplayer games back in the 90s and early 00s.
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