REV316  The application design is so-so. It just isn't up with todays standards. However it works, and "was" one of the best game match making programs to date. However, poor administration (the developer isn't exactly.... friendly) & lack of updates has led this to be a sinking ship.

I doubt PC users will adopt this. Get x-fire for the Mac rolling, it has more potential then Gameranger ever did.   
(Version 4.9)

PHASEANGLE  From his site

"GameRanger expanded into PC gaming receiving widespread enthusiasm and acclaim."

This was on there the day of the windows release.

Same old Scott

I won't bother to put up with his bad attitude.  
(Version 4.9)

DARKXMACXPUNK  Oy! I was just Baned for some silly joke, I was replacing my name with some one elts and wrote that it was a joke then I am baned and i cant get in contact with Evill and i want back in life is BORING i wanna plau GR!!!  
(Version 4.6.2)

LEO MUMFORD  how could they bann you for being whitty?  
(Version 4.6.2)

CHROME  Can not play UrbanTerror (Mod of Quake III) anymore through this version of Gameranger.

Instead of UrbanTerror it launches the main-app of Quake III and then do nothing.

I used it for years without any problems but this version sucks, sorry to say.  
(Version 4.6)

ELIJAHG0  A few years ago, I remember GameRanger being the best gaming service around. Now it's not good at all.

Scott Kevill tries to moderate and can't cope with constructive criticism. His solution is ban ban ban! Exactly like a sad administrator at our school. Power has gone to his head. All the people on it are extremely big headed and ignorant. Used to be a pleasure, now it's a bore.

Just look at the stats, 500 days in the same number of games were played as they are now, after a peak at around 1400 days. There was a massive drop when the idiotic developer ("Evill") decided to mash over most of the features with a ridiculously high $50 fee. $25, fair enough but $50, sheesh.  
(Version 4.6)

ZETHER  I was banned today for 30 mins for saying this:

ZeTHy: I am a pirate and ride on a Fire fox bowser and sail on a lime wire and a torrent of truth.  
(Version 4.5.2)

ZETHER  On Tuesday the 14, 2006 I was talking on the main chat with a few gamers, and was unexpectidly banned for qoute un qoute "pirate." Here is the conversation as followed.

(I have left out the other users name out of respect)

ZeTHeR - Do you have quake 2

Otheruser - nah

Zether - You know you can get it for mac

Otheruser - yeah where?

ZeTheR - Fruits-of-dojo

Otheruser -what

ZeTHeR - I'll just leave of limewire for a while, look for Quake 2 mac

About 2 minutes later I was banned for 1 day. Here is the email conversation with

Scott Kevill as followed.

EMAIL ONE _ FROM ME

I am requesting that you unban me as of this moment. The so called pirtate ban you used to remove me does not apply. The files I was talking about are from www.fruit-of-dojo.de, and are not pirated. Return my acount to active.

EMAIL 2 _ From Scott Kevill

It had nothing to do with FoD, and everything to do with you talking

about using Limewire for Quake 2.

EMAIL 3 _ From Me

, so you are saying that I tried requesting, promoting or encouraging the use of pirated software or non-public beta software. Well, I would disagree on the following grounds.

Firstly, promoting

pro·mote (pr-m t) Pronunciation Key Audio pronunciation of "promoting" [P]

tr.v. pro·mot·ed, pro·mot·ing, pro·motes

1.

1. To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.

2. To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.

2. To contribute to the progress or growth of; further. See Synonyms at advance.

3. To urge the adoption of; advocate: promote a constitutional amendment.

4. To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity: commercials promoting a new product.

5. To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing: promote a Broadway show.

As you can see, definition "1a" states for our purposes here "To raise to a more important level," and I think we both can agree this is not what you are accusing me of. The same follows for "1b." However definition "2," to contribute to the progress or growth of, is what most likely I am being accused of. Did I really contribute to the growth of it? Well, for this we'll consult the dictionary once again.

contribute

1. to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.

2. to furnish (an original written work, drawing, etc.) for publication: to contribute stories to a magazine.

–verb (used without object)

3. to give (money, food, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc.: He contributes to many charities.

4. to furnish works for publication: He contributed to many magazines.

—Idiom

5. contribute to, to be an important factor in; help to cause: A sudden downpour contributed to the traffic jam.

Hence, I did not give any knowledge, assistance, money, or time, to a common supply. Nor did I furnish anything for publication. Once I did not give any of benefit to those that may be looking for assistance with the matter, and I did not contribute any important factor. So, if this is what I was accused of I am clearly innocent.

Therefor I must be accused of urging the adoption of, However, the statement I made does no such thing, and so definition 3 falls to the wind.

Now, we are left with 4 and 5, and I think that I did not attempt to sell sell or popularize this software with advertising or publicity. Nor could it be said that I help establish a new enterprise or organization, so clearly --yet again-- I am innocent, and therefore it is you duty to return my account.

Respectfuly,

ZeTHeR

After this email tryed opening gameranger and found that I have been banned a full week for sending him that email.   
(Version 4.5.2)

HELLFIRE  The one thing i'm waiting for is support for clans on GR  
(Version 4.5.2)

JGUY80  If some of you can't connect to GameRanger and are using the Test version for Premium members, delete the test version and re-download GameRanger. The test version is not capable of updating to the newest version.  
(Version 4.5.2)

JGUY80  GameRanger is the best of it's kind, and one of the only ones of it's kind. One of the easiest ways to play over 100 Mac games with other Mac users and not PC users.  
(Version 4.5.1)

OPNETFR  it's a SPYWARE

GR can see when you are using Netfone and Force to quit Netfone Application.

If you use Launch Netfone, and rename it without quit it. You can use Netfone, but the creator of GR can see that you use Netfone, and Ban you.  
(Version 4.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Just 1 comment to the person who said GR is not a spyware: in GR, you cannot talk privately in any room. Even if you create a private, passworded room, some guys around can read what you say. I know, because me and somone were banned in a room.

Frankly, we were not speaking about make the earth exploding.. was just free talk.

I don't like to be spied.  
(Version 4.1.2)

C.H. DEPIGNOUF  GameRanger is killing the Mac games !

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I mean Mac OS9, I can remember a LOT of users connected at GR, maybe 300 usually, with some peaks at 400 or 500.

Nowadays I can only see about a hundred. And the application itself turned into a shareware version.

The membership is not giving so much as a honest customer could expect, neither the purchase of the application would give any significant priviledges.

For the GR development and marketing team I would suggest to:

1) Give REAL add values on subscribing to a membership, such accesses to games previews, fast hosting servers, dedicated forums and servers, etc. The quality of the SERVICE will bring new customers for sure.

2) Make the standalone application free, under the GNU license with source code available. Then, you can include it in every new Mac game release, and freely distribute it.

As stated above, there is an opportunity on Mac for a better software of this kind. It is obvious that the online Mac gaming community is under-exploited right now.  
(Version 4.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  GameRanger is great. It's not the developer of GR's fault if games are buggy, nor if users are abondoning it for in-game servers.

Thats just change for you.

GameRanger does exactly what it tries to do.   
(Version 4.1.2)

OLDSCHOOL GR USER  Tut Tut Evill GR has been heading down hill for many years now and yet again you find new ways to spoil our fun. I have been a daily user for many years and at one point 40 or so of the people on my buddy list where regular users logging on day after day for many hours of merry gaming sadly now its down to 6 regular users and many who have not logged on for months or years there are many reasons for this.

Games become old, graphic obsolete so those who can afford a computer with the power to run new games move on sadly they tend to be the people with the ability to host well, leaving those who can not upgrade left with few and laggy hosts.

A few games have also been killed off buy updates.

New Games seam to be put on GR for all to try with little or no testing of how well they run on GR combined with games being sold full of bugs and us GR users find all this out after paying for the game. And then when we find all the problems running the games on GR we write emails to GR support and get no reply... and yet i have herd of people who have had bans (temp or permanent i don't know) emailing support offering to pay for prem and getting a reply within hours with the ban lifted as soon as they pay.

Admin's can be a pain in the ass, they just seam to be all of Scott's friends i have been given temp bans for no reason a few times over the years and know of many others who have. And then i see people chatting about "sex, drugs, rock and roll" in rooms and games where there are users i know of as young as 12 and ones i don't know possibly younger with nothing done at all.

I do not have any problems with applications that cant run while GR is running like other users have but i find this appalling.

And now you and aspyr (i have no love for aspyr now either with the buggy games coming out of there) have decided that battlefield 1942 demo is for prem only thanks a lot. I have full battlefield and all expansions and i have prem but i cant host and there are sweet fa bf full hosts so most nights you will find me playing demo and most of the hosts tend not to have prem so instead of having almost nothing to play on GR and often having to wait 30 mins or so for a good host now i have nothing to play on GR and no i will never resort to age of empires. Do you really think that forcing non prem users to either buy prem or buy full bf1942 will work? the game was struggling hard enough to take off. O and no i am not on some old slow G4 unable to play other games i have a top spec G5 can run anything doom3 high settings is smooth but o yea that was another mess on GR wasn't it... when a host starts up a random password is set so no one can get in zzz well i have to admit i gave up on doom3 on GR it may of been fixed but i doubt it.

I got prem the day it was introduced and have continued my prem with hope that things would get better, I do not need my name in bold i do not need a pic i do not need a quote or even a link i Just need a good service with good support.   
(Version 4.1.2)

UMAROMC  I've been using this since the super-buggy beta days on Classic. The biggest difference now is that the community is dead. At any given time one used to be able to log on and chat with other users for social connection, troubleshooting, gameplay tips or general stupidity... not anymore.

Considering most of the games GameRanger supports have built-in server browsers and the afore-mentioned fact... I see almost no need to have this anymore... but it's like one of those old apps that I used to love that I find it hard to erase...

...eh... took me a LOOOONG time to finally erase Quake 1 and 2! lol  
(Version 4.1.1)

ANONYMOUS  Does this version still prevent you from using other apps like KDX that have voice chat? It's astonishing that this developer would actually disable someone else's software to force users to use the lesser functionality of his own app.

Amazing. You pay for two pieces of software and one, Game Ranger, stops you from using another, KDX's voice chat. Talk about evil.  
(Version 4.1.1)

JOSE  Simply amazing how... I was working with a client on netfone.. and i decided to sneak a game in there.. low an behold... i get disconnected from a program i use on a day to day basis.

A program which i already paid for.

There should be some legal issues regarding this...

OHHH Boy! I'm going to find out...

Other then that GR is stupid... I mean what 50 bucks for what? The chance to have some 12 year olds scream on the gr chat lines? Or a ladder system thats not only dead but has no support for a challenge.

Personally i think this is a great market for any programmer and the need for a new program is there.  
(Version 4.1)

ANONYMOUS  Scott Kevill purposly makes it impossible to use kdx while running gameranger,this is such bull.I cant beleive he would purposly make it so you cant use software you already payed for.Scott is extorting its users by making them pay 50 bucks to use game rangers voice chat.Here are some links on this.

http://www.haxialsoftware.com/faq/gameranger/

http://www.macaddict.com/forums/post/648986  
(Version 4.1)

SOMEONE  i just got banned for one week for switching my name to Evill for about 5 sec

and i am not going to pay premium to voice chat in games and make them lag even more then they already do  
(Version 4.0.8)

ANON  Had my first GR experience last night... and i have to say i was pretty dissapointed.

--

I was playing Age of Mythology, which gameranger said was one of its topped ranked games, and there was never more than 2 rooms going on at once. I gues this isnt GR's fault... but my question is, are there so few mac gamers that one of the only real mac gameing services topped ranked games, had basically zero users online?....

--

I used to play this game on a friends pc, and with its own built in multiplayer hosting capabilities, and an available multiplayer game at any time of any day.... i am very piised that i even bought this game... its ok to play the single player modes... but its a strategy game, and i prefer to compete against human strategy, as opposed to an easily beatable machine....

---

Beyond all of that... GR seems to have its share of issues... the lag... the horrible hosting capabilities, the need to relaunch the game every time you join a new mltiplayer game... kind of annoying....

---

All in all... my first impression is to give this service a 1, when compared to such services as gamespy, and even the PS2/X-Box server capabilities...

--

Alas... there are no other options for AOM.. that I know of....

--

IF ANY AOM PLAYERS OUT THERE KNOW OF A DIFFERENT SERVICE>>> PLEASE REPLY

--

Also.... the availability to also play pc gamers needs to be an option for all games, as the mac gaming community is tiny.

--

Im going back to Ghost Recon for my PS2..... now thats a real online gaming community  
(Version 4.0.7)

BALTHAMOS  Nice piece of software. Just wish it was free...

~Balthamos  
(Version 4.0.5)

ANONYMOUS  I went on game ranger,and asked if anyone wanted to play quake,I posted a link to the site for my server and some kid started saying "WAREZ WAREZ MODERATOR WAREZ WAREZ"and i was kicked.The site i have for my server has NO warez at all.I guess if you are a premium member,and you accuse someone of something illegal the moderator immediately kicks you without even checking.  
(Version 4.0.5)

OLIVIER LANCTôT  Regarding the comment on Stratego for OSX

...

Yes. I coded one in Cocoa but Kevill never wanted to support it

see http://www.clichesw.com/products/strateges

I'd be interested in investing time on it if GR would support it.

Maybe send him an email?  
(Version 4.0.5)

UMAROMC  I've been a user since it was a very buggy beta... it's ALWAYS been visited by idiots- by the droves- but by some gems, too... it'd been free for a LONG time and Scott decided to make some money utilizing an idea that gives those who decide to pay for use of the software some extra features whilst maintaining GameRanger's overall utility for the users who decide not to pay- sounds fair to me.  
(Version 4.0.5)

ANONYMOUS  When is somebody gonna develop a new Stratego game for GR? Development stoppped after the introduction of OSX...

Other then that, GR is alright, but it is sad to see how S. Kevill decided to make money out of a deveidence between Premium and normal users...

Game Ranger used to be more fun in the old days. Now it's a gathering of testosteron fed teenagers who bash each other all day...

anyone an alternative?  
(Version 4.0.5)

ANONYMOUS  what is it going to remove that you couldnt remove yourself. Scott does a great job and doesnt spy on anyone. what have you done for the mac community?  
(Version 4.0.5)

ANONYMOUS  If OS X had a SpyWare removal tool, this would be the first thing it removes.  
(Version 4.0.5)

ANONYMOUS  Obviously many of the comments here are from people who are angry with GR. GR isn't as bad as many portray it, though it does have troubles, many of them because the Macintosh gaming community isn't large enough to pour money into a gaming service.

GameRanger has many things about it that are more useful/friendly than the Microsoft Zone Gaming Server.

The software is incomplete, and given the current inattentiveness of the owner of GR to it, I suspect many of these will remain for some time. But all in all, GameRanger would warrant a "B".  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  The moderator is a big time jerk who gets off on his power over his mindless followers.I was banned for life from gameranger just because i disagreed with the moderator.  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  Only mortal is better and free.  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  Sucks!!!!!!!!  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  Horrible app,too many teenagers talkin crap in the chat rooms  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  I hate gameranger.All i want is a app that finds servers for my games,ther is no need for a freakin chat room,and the moderator(Scott Kevill)is a complete jerk,he banned me for life from gameranger,What kind of person holds a internet grudge like that.Only mortal is about 1000 time better then gameranger and it is totally ad,chat,and moderator free.  
(Version 4.0.4)

RONIN.CA  Lord god you lot (with few exceptions) are a pack of goofs. People swear, turn on the profanity filter. Teenagers over the age of 13 probably know more about swearing and sex than most people give them credit for, get a grip. If it isn't on GR (which will be near you so you can answer their questions) it will be in the school yard from some half informed moron.

Scott and developers have a symbiotic existance, if they don't include support for GR he has no service. Further, if he allows even the hint of discussion of pirating the game developers will cut all support for GR... so, all he is doing is not letting you discuss stealing software. OH NO!!

Premium is lots more than bold names, but if you think that is all it is then your loss. Beyond which I view premium like subscribing to PBS or a thank you card to Scott. He basically has worked full time plus since he started GR, has rented server space, paid for ISP stuff etc etc.. while many of you believe money grows on trees or in the bottom of your parents pockets, it does not. All of these things cost money.

Anyway, in the end, GR is a private system. Like a bar or club. You pay a cover charge to get in, but if you break the rules you get tossed out. If you don't like the place, you leave. That is why there is a free option, to check out the service before you join.  
(Version 4.0.4)

IAPPLEPIE  Look people

GameRanger is there like

Brazgirl said

no one can keep whatch 24/7.

and also you dont need to look at the chat room you can hide it and not see the material you would not "like" to see.

Plus isnt everyone on gameranger there to play games and have fun?

dont like it, dont use it =/

p.s i gave 4 for stability as it locks up in 10.1.5  
(Version 4.0.4)

BRAZILIANGIRL™  GameRanger is a good place to play your multiplayer games. Like ANY CHATROOM you migh find, no matter what, you will see people talking about games, personal life, sexuality, computer, PC and all kind of subjects. You will find good friends. You will find people that you would like to ignore. You also will find all kind of people between those 2 extremes. If you are looking for a good place to play your games, the chatroom won't bother you. Now, if you want to be part of the chatroom, keep in mind each person has different opinions. So while talking about games makes one interested, the same subject can be boring to others. If you feel offended by any subject, you can email Scott and he will do something about it. But before you do that, put yourself in his place, you will find out he is only one, and there are thousands of us! Would YOU have time for each one of us? Would YOU watch what is going on the chat 24 hours per day? And well, about your kids watching the chatroom, I'm pretty sure they watch the same things on TV, they talk or hear the same things at school, with friends, and it's something that, IF they don't know yet, they will learn by themselves, naturally, because sexuality IS part of life. YOU, as their mother and/or father, is the one responsable for HOW they make a big deal out of what they read in a chatroom. If not in GameRanger, they will have to deal with this sooner or later, wherever they go.  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  Well

to get started

i saw that room today

"suck me long and hard trebek"

all i can say is

there is such thing as a profanity filter

anything like sex, *uck etc. will all be filtered

and come up as stars.

:)

im 14

and if you're not dumb you wont be influenced by anything here

but i kinda aggree with that guy that

scott kevill doesnt allow much

and also he doesnt allow you to run certain app's WHILST USING GAMERANGER like KDX

you cannot run it because scott kevill says it meens your pirating if you have it open

he also forbids you to mention carracho, hotline KDX limewire, poison, kazaa anything to with downloading from a program gets you the boot and a 30 minute ban sometimes longer.

and the administrators abuse their powers way to much for instance

>

etc

if scott kevill in anyway disaggrees with you he allways insults you or bans you.

=/

but i still recommend gameranger but avoid chatting in main chat because everyone is like stupid old coots (20-40)

the young people are ok

ive found tons of good people online and maintain a good relationship with them :)  
(Version 4.0.4)

HUNTER   I have been using Gameranger for about a year and a half. Gameranger is a great application. Stop sheltering your children, or they might end up like you.   
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  I am a parent of 3 kids . 14,12,10 I have bought a g5 and the saleperson told me of a gaming service called GAMERANGER. After read the terms and agreement. I was totally surpuised to see this the first time my son logged in we saw this ," Description: I'm here to say, "Suck me long and hard Trebek."

ISNT THAT A TOSS VIOLATION? VERY disheartening to see that it was allowed . As we (wife and I) sat and watched the chat for 1 hour. To my disbelief theres alot of sexually talk. How sad. Even watched a woemn that said she was married and talking very vulgur to another client. IS THIS A PlACE FOR KIDDIE PORN. I do agree with Machippy. HE stated ,this wasnt a place for any teenager. Sad to see that the maker of GameRanger doesnt watch closely enough to the chat . If he does at all. SCOTT do you even care what you give to the mac community. To bad because, I was going to purchase 5 accounts that day. One for the each of us. TO ANY OTHER PARENT DONT LET YOUR CHILD USE THIS SERVICE.   
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  For the last two people who made comments. it sounded like you have something against the author and know him personally. Though it is not my problem that is know reason to give the app a bad rating. And it is a great app. Except it crashes everytime i try to load Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4.  
(Version 4.0.4)

BEER  To whom it may concern:

It has came to my attention that software published by you or your group is compatible with an Online-Gaming application known as GameRanger. I feel it is my responsibility to bring it your attention the practices of GameRanger. The actions of the creator and moderator, Scott Kevill are extremely unorthodox and completely against the ideas of freedom of speech and many other ideologies sanctioned by the UN, Geneva convention and many other human rights groups. Not only is he commiting these hate crimes, but he is draining your firm of its resources; His bans most likely are affecting your sales. Because if your product supports GameRanger, (In which many innocent users have been abused) these people will not be able to use your program to its fullest. By supporting GameRanger you support Nazism and exploitation. For the sake of myself and all other frustrated gamers, please look into this matter. Thank You.  
(Version 4.0.4)

ANONYMOUS  A community full of annoying teenagers, and arrogant nerdy adults.

Don't chat with them, you're wasting brain cells.

Carbonish app, the UI totally sucks.

Avoid at all costs.

Oh and the developer is also uncool.  
(Version 4.0.4)

JUST HELPING BANNED NOOBS  just get a new Ethernet Hardware (PCI card). Then make a new account .If you have never signed in before (new user)never connect with your built -in ether use a card. Then he will never get the built-in address.   
(Version 4.0.3)

SR.NOS  To Anonymous who is Banned. Apparently GameRanger obtains your Ethernet Hardware address and uses that for Permanent bans. Which is why you can use another machine but not the one which you had the account banned on. I don't know who Scott Kevill thinks he is, but he is providing a service and is too involved, he needs to step back and not get 'emotionally' involved. Yes administrate and keep GameRanger clean as possible, but it's just petty perma banning people and I don't know what the legality of obtaining the Hardware address of your comp is.  
(Version 4.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  i have been banned forever on game ranger for some stupid crap and when i sign up for a new acout on my other computer it lets me sign in but when i go to sign up on the computer i got banned on it says im banned so i guess thet game ranger drops some invisable files on my computer or something,I deleted all the prefs and every other thing and im still banned just on this one computer  
(Version 4.0.2)

ANONYMOUS  Looks like he's still blocking other apps from running while his is running unless you pay him. How unethical is that?

http://www.haxors.com/gameranger/

Explains it all.  
(Version 4.0.1)

CARBONIZER  Evill (scottie) has done a great job with GR but still people whine about the cost.THEN DONT BUY IT and play anyways. Also its not his fault HALO isnt on GR. Any memeber that has helped the mac community out is a Great person. I love having something peeceers dont have.GREAT JOB SCOTT KEEP IT UP. parents you need to still monitor your kids and whats they are doing and alot of little kids dont belong on GR.   
(Version 4.0)

153957  not that great service, this new version, a 4.0...... doesn't add much for normal users... to bad...  
(Version 4.0)

MACE  I have never been able to setup gameranger on my eMac running OS 10.2.8 and using AOL as my ISP. How do I determine the correct proxy settings?  
(Version 3.6.3)

ANONYMOUS  It doesnt have halo and it needs to take the voices out of chats i hate it its horrible terrible gross it SUCKS!!!!!! DONT get it  
(Version 3.6.3)

ANONYMOUS  thnx for this hint i will try it1111  
(Version 3.6.3)

ANONYMOUS  after having launched Gameranger i could easily host a game (MOHAA).

when i qitted gameranger. i tried to play a singleplayer game: when i opened theMOHAA; the game automatocally started a server multiplayer game with the settings from gameranger;

Gameranger altered the macParmstxt file.

I had to erase teh settings to get rid of this nasty behavior.

GR team should change this annoying feature.  
(Version 3.6.3)

JAKE  It needs to have halo on it  
(Version 3.6.3)

DJDARLEK  how come its classed as 'free'?  
(Version 3.6.3)

ANONYMOUS  I Agree GR was ok a year ago but the new changes are all wrong the GR people only care about how much money they can make most of the games lag too much and to pay $50 for that kind of lag it just plain stupid... if your useing GR right now you should grow a brain and stop useing it.. if the people stop useing the app then they will stop ripping people off.. what we need is a new app desinged to be a free app so we can have fun play games and not get robbed.. i recomend you should save your $50 and buy another game with it.   
(Version 3.6.2)

ANONYMOUS  Expensive.

Not Needed.

Forcing you to use that instead of competition.

Rude community.

Game Ranger is not worth my $50.  
(Version 3.6.1)

ANONYMOUS  GameRanger is the biggest rip off around they charge too much and lots of the games will work better without GameRanger running in the background. i have noticed it creates Lag in alot of games they work alot better with a IP connection to the Hosting system.  
(Version 3.6)

MACAHOLIC  I agree.

They take away to much. it should all by free.

I'm not spending $50 a year. i don't have time to play it every day.  
(Version 3.5.3)

PMEUR  Till last update, it was possible to use netfone and GameRanger in two different Mac OS X session (user 1 & user 2).

Now, even if NetFone is not working, GameRanger block the start of a game if two session are open.

This "Microsoft" way to do is borring me. GameRanger is spying my computer and I don't like this. For now I will join the "ghostrecon" iChat room to organize multiplayer game with NetFone.  
(Version 3.5.3)

ANONYMOUS  They took away too many features for the non-premium users. Premium is $50 a year which is too much.  
(Version 3.5.3)

APPLE2GS  Does not work through a firewall or NAT; like what many ISP's now start doing to protect their Windoze users. If any P2P software can work with a firewall, why not gameranger too ?  
(Version 3.5.2)

ANONYMOUS  I was using Gameranger and Netfone with great success. Recently, Gameranger included voice communication support, which broke Netfone. I am NOT happy. Why should Gameranger have to REPLACE Netfone??? If this does not get resolved, I have no further use of Gameranger!  
(Version 3.5.1)

JERRY  Still won't recognize Jedi Knight II for some reason. Stays greyed out in the menu. Any ideas?  
(Version 3.5.1)

JB  I don't know about the relevance to cell phone vs. GR quip. My cell phone may cost me $.14/day but it is a whole lot more useful in the grand scheme of things than GR. I mean, I am a MacAddict from the word "go" but lets not push the envelope for the usefullness of any gaming product versus real life stuff. I can find more use for the 14 cents per day (cumulatively) than a gaming net.  
(Version 3.4)

ANONYMOUS  FIFTY BUCKS? SHEEEYIT...50 bucks buys me a lotta stuff - cool stuff I really need.  
(Version 3.4)

LEGEND  I like the idea of this premium package, but i also agree,its too costly, even more so for us Canadians. $50.00 a year is more like $75.00 canadian, if it was $5 or $10 a year, you would probably get more response from the users and would probably start making a little profit. Dont get me wrong, I like the idea of premium, but theres no way I can afford to be paying that much to just be able to talk or leave away messages, Netfone is free and away messages can go in the game room header. Cheaper is better, thx.  
(Version 3.4)

STEVE  Wow. Premium features should be free or lower the price of Premium? It's only $49.95, with unlimited usage, which averages out to less than 14¢ a day. If you have a cell phone you probably pay that much for a month. You should also understand that Scott Kevill pays for GR out of his own pocket and he needs premium memberships to fund it. And if you're getting banned quite often read the ToS that you agreed to. The administrators can ban you at their discretion for any reason.  
(Version 3.4)

DANIEL HACHBOLD  It's a really good sevice but with a Premium Membership at only $49.95 per year a little high for some and kind stupid. I think they should make all the features free and have some place if you like to help them out you can donate some money so they could making this applications. Anyway the Premium Membership I think is really not worth the money if the will no make it free at lest they can do is drop the price down for the Premium Membership for that price and the extra freatures you get it's not worth it, I could see that will be a great price if it was one time only too but it's year. But you get something with the free part, not much it's at lest something.  
(Version 3.4)

ERIC ALLEN  yeah he's totally right, premium should be free. I'm also getting banned over there a lot of times for no reason. Something tells me that the administrator is a total jerk, or he's a tyrant.  
(Version 3.3.2)

UMAROMC  Info on app states latest version is 3.3.3  
(Version 3.3.2)

UMAROMC  "Nice, but premium should be free"? That's the STUPIDEST most inconsiderate remark to leave for a service that's remained FREE for it's users since it was beta years ago... then a bunch of single stars!? That's SOME freakin' nerve you loser.  
(Version 3.3.2)

ANONYMOUS  nice, but premium should be free,  
(Version 3.3.2)

BB  Good Service, Plenty of games

Brilliant  
(Version 3.3.1)

UNKNOWN  It is the most gaming experince with a chating room (like 4x4 evo 2)!  
(Version 3.3.1)

PVT MONKEY  sucks on osx,always crashes,but on os9 its good,lots of games and its fun  
(Version 3.3.1)

JOHN H  The best and only Program that does what it does!  
(Version 3.3.1)

AMON-RE  GameRanger is pretty neat. The new buddy list reminds me a bit of MSN/AIM though… don't know if I really like that. Btw, I'm user #58707. :P  
(Version 3.3)

WILL MARTIN  Great gaming service! And even if there *was* a small nominal charge/upgrade charge i would pay it. Because it's pretty obvious that a lot of time and work has gone/will go into this.

Thankyou!  
(Version 3.2.1)

ANONYMOUS  I think most of us paid for GR for all the hard work that evill put into it the past 4 years and to keep it going for many more years and not for the features that Premium adds. So yes its well worth 50 bucks and its only going to get better. Also the premium users will keep GR free for people who don?t use it as much or think that 50 bucks is too much money right now for the features it adds.  
(Version 3.2)

ANONYMOUS  Premium puts your name in bold? And that's it? You've got to be kidding me. All this is going to do is create a huge rift between the people who are premium and those that aren't. We're 2nd class citizens, just because we prefer something for free, instead of a $50/year rip-off.

I understand Scott needs to recoop some costs, but if you're going to start charging, at least offer members some decent, extra functionality. Giving them a bold name just pisses the other people who haven't paid off.  
(Version 3.2)

ANONYMOUS  Kinda pointless since I found Only Mortal. And OM is free ;-)  
(Version 3.2)

BENEXT  Well, it was only a matter of time before they started charging for it. I know basic features are still free but it's only a matter of time before "they can't support that model" or something.  
(Version 3.2)

UMAROMC  Good updates, love GR!  
(Version 3.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Downoad is soooooo easy!!! the computer did everything! I was on and playing in 30 sec!

BUT! it seems pretty obvious that lots of the people have cheat codes in effect. I hosed down several enemy and they dont die. Also they seem to move really fast compared to my solder. Had several enemy run all the way through a town, zig-zagging back and forth up to my position just to give one shot and Iam dead. while Iam firing away with my sniper rifel then a pistol at them.

looks like cheat codes to me.....  
(Version 3.1.1)

TRIPHAZE  URL didn't show in previous post...

http://www.theclq.com/s3.asp  
(Version 3.0)

TRIPHAZE  Lots of interface inconsistencies under Classic Mac OS which are fine on OS X. Doesn't seem to show many Quake II Lithium servers for some reason - the older version 2 had lots more. I know people still play the Quake II Lithium mod, because the following site lists a lot of active servers   
(Version 3.0)

AMON-RE  I want to copy Lee and say that GameRanger is the best. Oh yes, what do you mean with "lack of features" ? Do you want built-in MP3 players, coffee machines, cable modem and PhotoShop 8 beta? Whoa, then I might change the features rating to 1! *COUGH*  
(Version 3.0)

MAXIMILIAN GOODLAN  integrates very badly with MacOS X  
(Version 3.0p5)

PROTOTYPE  I'm not really seeing anything different in this version (besides obviosly OS X support, which should have been done a while ago).

I dont care if it's completely re-written from scratch, I care about features, which GR still lacks several of.   
(Version 3.0p3)

LEE [TR]  Best gaming service there is.  
(Version 3.0p3)

LEE [TR]  Best gaming service there is.  
(Version 3.0p3)