Ubisoft makes World in Conflict multiplayer backend open source

[Elixer]

This is surprising from Ubi.

They basically now let anyone to run their own WiC server and host MP games.
https://github.com/ubisoftinc/massgate

IMO, this should be the norm for games that they have shutdown the MP servers for.

Anyway, good move Ubi!

https://github.com/ubisoftinc/massgate

Massgate is the central server for the Massive Entertainment game World in Conflict that manages the online functionality such as keeping track of dedicated game servers, user accounts, clans, ladders etc. The original game was released in 2007, and the official Massgate server was shutdown in 2016. To make it possible to continue to play World in Conflict online the source code of Massgate is now open source, making it possible for anyone to host their own Massgate server.

The code itself is more or less the same as how the code looked like back when the game is released. Only minor tweaks have been made to make it build on a relative modern compiler and to remove the necessity to manage CD-keys. Not much of the code has survived into later releases done by Massive Entertainment and does not really reflect to code of the company today, apart from the code standard and the general look and feel of the code. As a piece of game development history, and for anyone interested in how online servers were written at the time, it can definitely be a point of interest.

 

[XavierMace]

You've always been able to run your own WiC server and host MP games. The issue was they shutdown the Massgate middleman. So you could still run your server but you had no way to connect to it over the internet.