The end......

[TNT_wfo]

Kam finally decided to shut down Central for good. Gone is a ton of history of MCM2 that most will never forget..snif, snif...
A lot of you may not have known the glory days of the site, back around 1999 to 2001. It truly used to rock.....

Thanks Kam and the crew for all the effort you made for the MCM community.

TNT_wfo

[MX45]

thats a bummer. I wish we had some heads up so we could grab some stuff for free. And I just downloaded a track from there 3 days ago.

Thanks Kam for all you've done.

[tw0_f0ur_]

Heres a good place to get some oldie tracks..  3000+ track http://mdxracing.net/main.php

[AMA_DirtTwister]

I grabbed all the SX and pretty close to all the National tracks that were on there.   I don't know what I'll do with them though.

Bruce

[Fredde]

Dammit I had plans for donwloading all of them and burning on dvds...

So if you want to Bruce your welcome to send them to me  I have an ftp server, although I can recive at about 800kb/s I can only upload at 80kb/s.

[AMA_DirtTwister]

Actually I just checked and I'm still downloading.

Bruce

[Farfrumpuken]

oh well. well every single track ive ever made except 1 is now off the record, they were either on MCM or Zone Racing(were the good ones were)... i guess i should have maybe kept the ENV files atleast. lol

[Fredde]

Actually I just checked and I'm still downloading.

Bruce

From their ftp?? I tried to connect to it but it didn't resolve a host.

[AMA_DirtTwister]

Still copying now.  It keeps stopping because some of the file names have ":" in them.  I'm assuming he didn't renew the name. The server is still up at the old address.  The name isn't resolving, but my server still resolves it.

Bruce

[HaB Stealth0]

Dammit I had plans for donwloading all of them and burning on dvds...

why dont u just buy the collection..

[cR]

Burning them yourself is cheaper

[Fredde]

Burning them yourself is cheaper

Hes right you know... Besides I dont think shipping to sweden is very cheap

Btw, Bruce could you tell me the ip to the server? Since the name isn't connected to it anymore.

[AMA_DirtTwister]

I can't from where I'm at right now.  My server is still going after it by name.  I'll poke around tonight.

Bruce

[Fredde]

Thanks

[AMA_DirtTwister]

I was talking to Kam tonight and he is making the tracks available by DVD for anyone that wants them.  He had the server open for quite a while and it's getting shut down really soon, so I'm not going to publish the IP address.  The server is being shutdown because of the bandwidth it is consuming.

Sorry,
Bruce

[Kamshaft]

I thought I'd post and tell you guys my thoughts.

Bruce is right, this thing was costing me tons of loot to keep up, although I never charged a cent in the past for anything, this is way to keep the tracks alive, by selling the DVDs.

I did not delete anything, I still have every single thing backed up. Database, tracks, skins, all of it. (-:  It's been 5 years, and running it by myself since 2002 (since the game sort of died), MXDirt and Spawn do not play the game and want nothing to do with it anymore.

I just felt obligated to keep it alive, but I was averaging near 200GB of downloads a month!  And making no money to pay for the bandwidth.

You guys are more than welcome to buy the DVD-Rs and do what you wish with them. Because only a few tracks were mine. (-:

And, if Rainbow Studios decides to make a PC version of MX vs. ATV Unleashed with a track creator, I'll be there with bells on, making tracks again!  That was the fun part of MCM2 and MCM1.  I'm still amazed that the community is still strong after five years!  I can't understand why Rainbow Studios and THQ don't see this as a money making thing.  Oh well.....I suppose Microsoft never did either!

Well guy keep in touch, I'm around, not leaving, and I'll be buying the next PC title from Rainbow and making tracks for sure!  If you need to reach me, I'm at XboxAddict.com

[VMX_SKYmx99]

Kam,

You have done so much for this community over the years.  Thanks for MCM2 Central and all the great trakcs that have been uploaded there.  That place has sentimental value to a lot of us die hard MCM'ers.  Hope that a new game comes from rainbow and we see ya back here with some new tracks.

[Kamshaft]

It does hold a special place in my heart also! Let's all hope THQ releases a new MX game for the PC!

[VMX_SKYmx99]

What would be cool is if we could get every member of the MCM community to give $100 to TD for research and development and make MCM2 the game we have all dreamed of.  MCM with more realistic physics, etc, etc.

[AMA_DirtTwister]

It's not that far fetched that we could end up with our own vehicle simulator.  Especially if the game designers leave us poor PC game players behind.

Bruce