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GameRanger announces the addition of support for GRID multiplayer under Windows, following news that Codemasters is ending multiplayer support for the Windows and PlayStation 3 editions of the rally racing game. This is because multiplayer in the game is peer-to-peer, and the removal of multiplayer support was caused by the shutdown of the matchmaking servers, so the game's addition to GameRanger solves this problem.
Scott from GameRanger has also helped us understand why this went down: While GRID uses Xbox LIVE's built-in matchmaking for multiplayer support, the Windows and PS3 editions used Demonware for this functionality, and Activision acquired Demonware in 2007, and as a result, Demonware subsequently announced: "Since Demonware was acquired by Activision Inc. in May 2007, we no longer licence our software to third party developers." So presumably the end of multiplayer support was because this middleware license lapsed (the game was released almost exactly three years ago).
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