It really saddens me these days when I try to find material, downloads, maps, scripts, etc for older games like Tribes, Tribes 2, BOTF, and many more. What was once an abundant source of material is now virtually extinct.
I am really kicking myself in my *** for not having downloaded all that I could and stored it on disk when I had the chance. Sure it was time consuming, but at least I would have had the material.
It really is a sad thing to know that there was SO MUCH cool stuff out for Tribes and Tribes 2, but now, now there is only the stock stuff available.
All that work, all those files, all of the things that were ever made for that game are now gone.
As site after site after site link to dead pages, and 404 errors are abundant galor, things have become almost as rare as the truth at a liars convention.
With Tribes and Tribes 2 as an example, I fear the day that this happens to SEIV. Granted SEIV has been going fairly strong now for nearly six years, far longer than the run for Tribes 2, and there are a huge array of downloadable material currently available for SEIV, one day, sooner than many of us would want, will come a time when a player won't be able to find crap for the game. No mods, no extra ship sets, nothing.
I honestly thought that files for Tribes and Tribes 2 would be around for decades, well I was wrong, they were around for about five years and are now simply gone.
Even file planets, a source for many of these files, has dropped a significant number of them. A quick search of file planet does not yeild any files for SEIV.
I have considered submitting a couple of mods and a complete ship set companion to Gamespot and file planet, but I really do not know how to go about doing so.
Who knows what the future holds, in five years SEIV could be a long forgotten memory, or it could still be one of the best, most played, 4x games. One thing for certain, preserving the files we have should be a top priority.
OT: Old Games Gone Forever
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