As always it's back up again

I also know they're running their servers in a datacenter in California, but I don't know if the company is managing it or if they just colocated their own hardware. That's a good question, because if it hits the fan and no one is around to fix it, NovaWorld could disappear any second. And THQ certainly doesn't seem too concerned with it. They won't even return support emails relating to NovaLogic.

Buckle up, everyone. The end is a long time coming. What an unfortunate day that will be.

I think there has to be someone restarting something when things like the login database/connector falls over, or like the issue last week it would have never come back.

I sort of hope that they moved all the systems into some form of visualised environment (say under a hyperV system) so its running on modern hardware and can be migrated should it suddenly go pop.

I did hear a rumour a long time ago that when nova shut up shop at the offices that the servers were relocated to some guys (previous employee) garage for a time and john g basically was paying him to continue to host them.. not sure how true this is.. i took it with a pinch of salt at the time, although prior to thq taking control there was a long outage one august and again im sure i read some place that the reason it took so long was someone was away on holiday.

I can see that the IP's are owned by https://www.keyinfo.com/ So one would hope they are actually hosting things now, on what we can only guess.

But its not to hard to take an old dying windows server, clone the disk and then make it a VM ive done a few in the past where hardware was on deaths door.

But recently its gone down a few times (few hours upto a day), but then it came back, so someone somewhere knows who to contact to get it going again, ive a feeling its someone here that knows who to contact in such times, but for fear of having everyone start flooding them with questions and support requests they keep quite...

Im not sure what THQ are paying to keep it going, but i think as long as they manage a few steam sales every month and largely break even (and make a little profit) by the end of each year they will continue to keep it running.

Scott from Nova HQ has been able to create an alternative for older nova games and ive had discussion with him last year regarding the possibility of doing the same for the later games like jo, however its not as simple to do, but technically it is a hypothetical  possibility.