Is ROL powered by gamespy or some other better battlenet like service?
Rise of Legends multiplayer is powered by a Gamespy backend, but does not use Gamespy Arcade as RoN did. Multiplayer has been a major focus of the development of Rise of Legends from the very beginning, and the multiplayer interface has already been hailed as one of the best ever seen. Here’s a quote from Gamespot about it – “Big Huge Games went back to the drawing board and created one of the most innovative multiplayer interfaces that we’ve ever seen in a game.