Good News

[Favrenation]

I contacted sega about reviving next tetris online server and here is there reply: Hello Logan,

Thanks for contacting Sega Customer Support regarding your inquiry into Tetris Online. In speaking with our licensing team part of the challenge to reviving either the server or the game services in general ties directly to their group and, at this time, Sega does not have a licensing agreement with the creator / owner of the Tetris property. This is the one, singlemost issue holding back from either reviving the game or otherwise providing server informaiton to outside entities (in short, we don't own the property completely only the technology surrounding it). There is positive news to go along with the bad in the fact our newly-formed digital properties / online group is looking into reviving many of our existing franchise (Genesis, Master System, Saturn, and Dreamcast) titles in the coming year. While I do not currently know which titles they are actively pursuing (these will be announced in the coming months) I am certain that you, as a Dreamcast owner, will be pleased with some of the announcements that will be coming. In the meantime, as I learn more about what may happen with Tetris, I will try to let you know as soon as I can find out anything.

Thanks again for your inquiry!

Rob
Sega Customer Support

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YGD-232765
Department: Other/Not Listed (North America)
Priority: --
Status: Waiting for Reply from Customer


I hope this is a good omen for the future and the face that Sega actually did something with my ticket kind of gives me hope for whats to come in the future. Maybe a new console?

[mazonemayu]

or... there has been rumors that dc games will be ported (through download??) to the ps3/360 next year. if there are games that were online in the past, I'm pretty sure they'll set up their servers again, to give the peeps the online feeling. suppose and thats a big suppose here...that they were to make the new networks dc compatible again.

this would mean us being able to play online vs ps3/360 players or even simply dc vs dc

this is off course pure speculation by me

but you have to admit that this could be done

[Favrenation]

Yeah I forgot about puting the ps3 ports on the post. The only thing is that I know for sure that xbox live and ps3 network useres will not be able to play against each other. Im pretty sure sony would not mind but microsoft is a definate no. I think it is great that sega is going back to there old games. There newer games are really bad so i think they want to go back and see what made there old games popular and apply that to todays standards.

[Dihnekis]

I'm pretty sure this just means they are going to be porting some dreamcast titles to the 360/ps3 arcades. If they do, it will probably be like Rez HD and get a graphic update and new features, which means DC players aren't going to be able to play. Providing backwards compatibility for DC players would gain them nothing, and it would be harder than just excluding us.

Still this is pretty cool, and if I can play AFO/Outrigger/OogaBooga on XBL that is better than nothing. But I'm more interested in playing DC games on a DC console.

This is wild speculation, but with bandwidth and emulation technology increases, would it be possible to play split screen games over a network? This is way beyond my technical abilities, but it seems possible in theory, if not actual technology yet.

[Bob Dobbs]

Wow! I wonder what else is going on at Sega? There is something going on, but it is tough to tell what they are thinking right now? The Japanese thinks in mysterious ways (I like to call it "thinking sideways" as opposed to thinking forward....or backwards).

[Favrenation]

Even if being able to play people from dreamcast was an option for Sega heres something to think about: How many people actually have there dreamcasts online and play online? or How many people actually have the option to hook it up online? I have no phoneline so a pc dc server is the only way to go for me. There might be at best 100-200 people in the world who play online on there dreamcast. How would this benefit sega? They wont make any money off of it so I think a dc-psn/xbox live server is out of the question. Although I would like that very much.

[Bob Dobbs]

Very good! It's sad, but time is killing our little white box.