World Opponent Network

World Opponent Network ( WON ) refers to a client-server based network, which is needed for multiplayer games of games publisher Sierra Entertainment (see also Half-Life ). WON was of games such as Homeworld, Half-Life, Star Trek: Armada used, Soldier of Fortune, Dark Reign 2, and online versions of casino games. With the shutdown of the WON server has been on 1 August 2004, against the protest of players started. A similar server network is eg Battle.net Blizzard Entertainment.

Today, in addition to the official, created by Valve Steam exists, the open source platform WON2.