Whoops

Maybe down to Nostalgia. Services ceased many years ago. At its peak 20+ servers of which many were populated 24/7 fully maxed. Good times. No activities are currently in place. However, instead of deleting everything we decide to archive and keep site online. Perhaps one day your children will play or a reunion will take place. One day, services may once again be brought back to life. Nevertheless, it is part of history and how we grew up. How we socialised and met to play.  

Along the way there has been big changes. At some point the forum platform was InfoPop, vBulletin, SMF before eventually Invision Community. During some of these migrations, forum(s) were reset or posts not migrated. Most posts for the period in question were migrated. We have now archived all posts instead of deleting the forum.

All forum posts have been archived. If you scroll up, you will see where and what. Instead of deleting the posts from the Call of Duty years, decided to archive all of them! Site has had a revamp and new start

For the login workflow. 
1) if a user creates a NEW account using the Steam login, they must login using Steam every time, or request a password reset using their email to initialize a login via the standard IPS login method. When signing in through Steam, the API doesn't give me the users username, password, or email address. When setting up the account, IPS only asks for a username and email and the password is left empty so the only way in is through Steam authorization. 
2) If an existing user links their Steam account to their forum account via Account Settings, they will be able to login using EITHER method, Steam or the normal IPS account login they've already been using. 
Steam doesn't 'take over' the account.