Greetings from your C&C Community Manager!

To continue the ten year anniversary celebration of the widely popular
Command and Conquer franchise, I am pleased to reveal EA's partnership
with XWIS (XCC WOL IRC SERVER)!

Through this partnership, all Command and Conquer games formerly
supported by EA/Westwood Online will be redirected through XWIS, thus
instituting XWIS as the main online game server management team. XWIS is
a community driven online game server that launched in October 2003 to
replace the XCC Community Ladder. The new and improved features enabled
include chat, in-game ranks, matching filters, lobby monitoring,
improved Quick-Match, and fully functional automatic ladders for clans
and individual tournament players. The beauty of this partnership is
that you won't have to download any external programs to utilize XWIS.
All the enabled features and connections to the servers are already
integrated into the supported games!

I'm also excited to share with you that the Strike Team will be
monitoring the banning and anti-cheat controls on a daily basis and will
provide technical support as needed. The Strike Team is a website built
of hardcore Command and Conquer fans and is sponsored by the EA German
Community Team. Their goal is to ensure a controlled and fun online
environment for all players.

XWIS will commence a two week trial period with Command & Conquer Red
Alert 2 and Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge. Once this
trial is completed on Oct. 20th, XWIS will be supporting the following
EA/Westwood online games:

* Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
* Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn
* Command & Conquer The Covert Operations
* Command & Conquer Red Alert
* Command & Conquer Red Alert: Counterstrike
* Command & Conquer Red Alert: Aftermath
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
* Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun: Firestorm
* Command & Conquer Renegade
* Dune 2000
* Nox
* Emperor: Battle for Dune

EA is 100% dedicated to the Command and Conquer franchise and wants to
ensure a strong and secure online gameplay environment. Long live
Command and Conquer! We hope to see resurgence in the legions of NOD and
GDI followers claiming ground online.

Good luck soldier. Hit the hot keys and get online with Command and
Conquer!

--Apoc

APOC

Community Manager & Marketing Liaison

Electronic Arts LA

"every day is community day"

Olaf van der Spek

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