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Geek Culture / Banshee Shutting Down

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Banshee
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 12:55
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The free hosting deal which has kept the Banshee site alive has come to an end. If there's any old games you guys want before it closes please let me know and I will email them to you, the zip files themselves are no longer online but the game descriptions are.

I'll probably be leaving one game online to keep Banshee 'alive' until whenever our next release is, and our current work in progress will be online which is a mod for the game Live For Speed. Everything else is going. This assumes the site does not shut down completely until we are more active again, which is a possibility.

I want to thank the indi scene for the friendships, the laughs, the great indi games from you lot and the endless forum debates about the most inane rubbish we could think of.

From all of us at Banshee past and present, good bye for now - but we'll probably be back .

Becky Rose, Nick Igoe, Andy Igoe, Rachel Nusbaumer, Tamir Erez.
www.bansheestudios.com

email: gimmethatgame@bansheestudios.com
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Van B
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 13:11
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Good luck, well until you get back to indi development - where you don't need it.

When you do return, perhaps uploading your games all over again in a new site would be a nice idea.

''Stick that in your text and scroll it!.''
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BatVink
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 13:18
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This is sacrilege!

I posted a suggestion on the more private forums at TDKs site.



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Supremacy
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 13:42 Edited at: 15th Sep 2006 13:44
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ill give you free hosting, point me out a good hosting deal that fits your needs and ill pay for it, for real !

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Banshee
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 13:54
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Thank you very kindly for the offer Supremacy. You might want to take back the offer in a sec when you see what Banshee uses, we use around 1gb of disk storage, 12 subdomains (most could be scrapped) and 20 email addresses (we could cut back to about 3-4) and today before the announcement where putting out 1gb/hour of traffic (although that was a bit of a peak and it doesnt run that level all the time). It's more than just the games that are currently hosted, all tied in at the moment is our race series and mod for the game Live for Speed at www.simtouringcarcup.com which just released the first race broadcast (not linked atm because it's a staggered release, the broadcast is here: http://www.bansheestudios.com/Movies/STCC1-TouringCars.wmv). The problem there is viewers are asking for the higher quality stream (450mb not the 100mb one hosted now) which was just planned to go out to drivers.

To maintain our current hosting this package would cover it although wont allow for expansion or moving to higher quality coverage of our race series: http://www.xrshosting.com/index.php?age=bppackage

So I have to ask the question, do you want to cover it all, just Banshee (which i'd have to check current stats on but when we where active would get a few hundred thousand downloads a month), just the race series, or none of the above?

I know i've not been active here in a long time, there was a period when Banshee was extremely active and extremely sucessful but we've been quiet for a long time which is why I thought it better to shut up shop rather than seek out a new sponsor who'd want to see new games, but at the moment we're more focused on our mods and race series and games are something we might come back to later.
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Banshee
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 14:05
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Sorry that link did not quite work, it would be the Business Plus package: http://www.xrshosting.com/index.php?page=bppackage to carry on as we are at the moment.
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Steve J
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 16:37 Edited at: 15th Sep 2006 16:43
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I can give that to you for free. All you would have to do it point a domains dns to my server, and it is done=D

if you switch the domain to:
| NameServer1: ns667.dizinc.com
| NameServer2: ns668.dizinc.com

I have made a package for you=). If you need to buy the domain name as well, I will=).

http://www.milkpaton.com/
http://phoenixophelia.com
SteveJ, less, and less Controversial!
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Supremacy
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 17:01
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i do can cover, and it would indeed be perfect for me, has i want to estabelish a destribution company, something like reflexivearcade.com, so i would cover all your stuff and support a dedicated server for banshee per month, there are a lot of investors behind all this, my main goal would be to create a serious image of my company, it would be great to work with you guys, we should discuss this better has this can be of much interest to both parts, do you have skype ? we could arranje a small informal meeting this weekend ?

i have cash and lots of ideias and serious busniss developers, i dont have contacts in the field, they could be you !

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Fallout
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 17:19
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Good lucky becky. Looks like there are some saviours in our midst.


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Banshee
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Posted: 15th Sep 2006 17:21
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It does indeed so I certainly need to talk more to both of you , here's my IM details

MSN: msn@bansheestudios.com
iChat/AOL: ibeckyrose

I dont have Skype atm but can install it this weekend if needs be.
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Steve J
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Posted: 16th Sep 2006 20:01
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Sorry, your post is still approved, I didnt see this. Added you=)

http://www.milkpaton.com/
http://phoenixophelia.com
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David T
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Posted: 16th Sep 2006 21:17
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Wow - what a sad day. Banshee's quite a respected name in DB history. Good luck with youir future projcts!

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