News from Metro

[Gardner Denver]

Nothing on Mod 10, obviously.  BUT

Metro is selling off all 7 of their bbs game servers.  Any not sold by April 10th will be shut down.....

Shannon posted this notice on the Sysop Forums yesterday.

[DeathCow]

I noticed that, bizzare shit.

[ghaleon]

Not that I would care to buy but how much are they selling em for.

[Colt]

This was Shannon's Post:

Metropolis Entertainment is announcing that effective April 10th we will no longer support our BBS Systems and are offering them for sale.
 
These systems include the three Worldgroup BBS systems, seven Worldgroup game servers and their respective file servers. We would prefer to sell this system as one package, but will consider offers on individual pieces.  If you are interested in making an offer or if you have questions about what's included, please contact Shannon via email (shannon@majormud.com) or call
913-663-9633.
 
The sale does not include the development and internal beta systems for MajorMUD development.
 
We will be shutting down those systems that have not been transferred on April 10th and will refund any paid time remaining on subscriptions ("telnet" or "plan2" accounts).
 
We want to thank all of our valued customers for their years of support and participation in the Metropolis community.
 
Systems Included:
Clubmet BBS
Masterpiece BBS
The Dump BBS
3 Novell File Servers
3 Snap Servers running as Novell Servers
Underground Game Server (undgs1)
Big 10 Game Server 2 (b10gs2)
Big 12 Game Server 2 (b12gs2)
Clubmet Game Server (metgs1)
The Louisville Connection Game Server (tlcgs1)
Rock Garden Game Server (rockgs1)
The Dump Game Server (dumpgs1) 
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[Vitoc]

Interesting...  thanks for posting that Colt.

Supposedly Mike from EntConn asked Shannon about GMUD and potentially distributing Major MUD content with it but no response as of yet.  At this point you almost have to believe they're ignoring us just out of spite, even though they quite obviously have no intention of ever working on Major MUD again.

[The Crazy Animal]

I guess they needed more space to move those chairs around.  ::)

[MudHunter]

It also appears that the metro forums have been down or broken all day.

[Gardner Denver]

It also appears that the metro forums have been down or broken all day.

Shannon says that the forums aren't the only thing broken.  There is some system wide internet problem at Metro.  They are working on it, which means it will be fixed in 5 or 6 years  ::)

It's been doing this for days now.

[Vitoc]

Shannon says that the forums aren't the only thing broken.  There is some system wide internet problem at Metro.  They are working on it, which means it will be fixed in 5 or 6 years  ::)

It's been doing this for days now.

Hmm... it's been extremely unresponsive for days, but today I haven't been able to connect at all.

I'm wondering if they're packing up shop and just not telling everyone the whole story.

[Gardner Denver]

I think they let Izak program their routers, and he metro'ed their entire server system  ;)

[Gardner Denver]

Interesting...  thanks for posting that Colt.

Supposedly Mike from EntConn asked Shannon about GMUD and potentially distributing Major MUD content with it but no response as of yet.  At this point you almost have to believe they're ignoring us just out of spite, even though they quite obviously have no intention of ever working on Major MUD again.

Actually Shannon replied.  She said something to the effect that "now would be a good time to make an offer"

Read what you want to into that

[The Crazy Animal]

interesting