End of Internet Ranking service
This was originally posted to the yyrGames forums on Dec 30, 2016 at 4:01 pm, and was last updated on 2/7/2019.
Hello yyrGames fans!!
As many of you know, Xbox Live Indie Games did not support proper leaderboards. Some games instead utilized Web-based scoreboards, or a peer-to-peer system (as CardArcade does).
Most yyrGames titles use Internet Ranking, a Web-based leaderboard system that does not rely on peer-to-peer communication or require Xbox Live Gold. But if you were to dig under the hood of the Internet Ranking system, you would find that it was designed in such a way that it would only last for 2,704 days. (Specifically, it used date codes that consisted of two digits, each containing a base-52 value.) Doing the math, this comes out to 7 years and 149 days.
It has now been a while since I started releasing my games. I hadn't really thought about this when I released Snake360 back in 2008, but here we are, a whole bunch of years later. If you play any of the below games after the indicated end date, you can still receive Internet Ranking codes, but when you attempt to enter them on the Web site, you will receive a message stating that the code was invalid.
Snake360: February 21, 2016 (already passed)
Both Sharpshooter and Falling: April 23, 2017 (already passed)
Bungee Ferret Tossing: November 23, 2019
Multitasking: November 23, 2022
Falling Plus (itch.io version): October 11, 2024
If you would still like to compete for score on these games (and you should!) then please do so before the indicated date.
Because new versions of all remaining supported games are either now available or will be soon, and being that these new versions feature proper leaderboard support, Internet Ranking will permanently close on November 23, 2019. After this date, the "Enter Code" pages will be removed. You will still be able to view rankings through the end of 2019. Once the rankings are removed, a Knowledge Base article will be posted containing all of the #1 scores, so they will live on forever!
Thank you for playing yyrGames!