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[SNG32]

Even if a game is getting its servers shut down, there should always be an offline mode that exists for paying customers and people who actually cared about the game to be able to preserve and play it for years to come.

This happened to me with Destiny 2 as well as a couple other games that I wouldve loved to have gone back to some day to play here and there, if for nothing else but for nostalgia

Whats that game that competed against Overwatch by the Borderlands devs? That game was a ton of fun even when playing solo versus the CPU, it had good gameplay and fun abilities and was challenging but it can't be played anymore even if you own the disc.

Anthem has fun core gameplay and nice visuals even if overall it was disappointing. These games getting permanently shuttered is a crushing blow to gaming. If it happens to these two games it can and will happen to more beloved games.

Will Hitman 1-3, Forza Motorsport, and GT7 be shut down sometime in the next generation? Most definitely. $70 games that are great games too will be permanently removed from our libraries and only available to PC players via molding.

This is more proof that console gamers continue to be treated like shit. I think this is disgraceful when these devs COULD offer some kind of limited offline campaign if they wanted to!

Not only just that but a lot of games get delisted on console as well which is another reason why I've switched to pc gaming. Honestly spending the upfront money for a PC is cheaper in the long run than console and also you do other things with it besides gaming.

 

[Rentahamster]

I didn't know they were still up.

 

[simpatico]

Imagine how much money they would have made if they just ripped off the Mass Effect formula and made it an action RPG. They literally only had to do less. That's what kills me about this industry collapse; they went out of their way to do it.

 

[Jacobson]

they're shutting it down now in case stopkillinggames.com wins or something lol

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

For comparison, Mass Effect 3 multi-player servers are still going and there hasn't been an announcement about shutting them down yet.

ME3 multi was surprisingly awesome, there was a lot of disappointment when they released the remasters that it wasn't available.

 

[Acti]

they're shutting it down now in case stopkillinggames.com wins or something lol

Shut it down! Quick!

 

[Portugeezer]

Stop killing ga-

On second thought...

 

[Branded]

I remember pre-ordering this for 35eu or something but never actually playing it because the reception was so shit.

Might as well give it one last go now and just plough through the main story no?

 

[Drew1440]

EA is pretty ruthless with it's online server support, I'll never forgive them for killing Darkspore.

 

[Wildebeest]

I wonder if the big publishers are going rush to start killing all the servers for flop games in case stop killing games starts getting traction in the EU and they have to start filling in 1000 forms before they can cut the power.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Even if a game is getting its servers shut down, there should always be an offline mode that exists for paying customers and people who actually cared about the game to be able to preserve and play it for years to come.

This happened to me with Destiny 2 as well as a couple other games that I wouldve loved to have gone back to some day to play here and there, if for nothing else but for nostalgia

Whats that game that competed against Overwatch by the Borderlands devs? That game was a ton of fun even when playing solo versus the CPU, it had good gameplay and fun abilities and was challenging but it can't be played anymore even if you own the disc.

Anthem has fun core gameplay and nice visuals even if overall it was disappointing. These games getting permanently shuttered is a crushing blow to gaming. If it happens to these two games it can and will happen to more beloved games.

Will Hitman 1-3, Forza Motorsport, and GT7 be shut down sometime in the next generation? Most definitely. $70 games that are great games too will be permanently removed from our libraries and only available to PC players via molding.

This is more proof that console gamers continue to be treated like shit. I think this is disgraceful when these devs COULD offer some kind of limited offline campaign if they wanted to!

I agree.

But pending the game (I dont know how Anthem works), if the game has any content generated on servers and sent back to gamers then I dont see how offline mode is possible. Unless they update the game so all that can be done offline.

I think Diablo games require online connection because they do all the randomized loot offline to prevent cheating. So that game code isn't even on the disc. I might be wrong here, but it was something like that.

But for easy stuff that can be left online for dirt cheap, I dont see how any big corporation cant just leave it on. Are a small number of servers that expensive to maintain for years? Unless the plug was pulled, there's posts people tried testing if COD 2 on 360 was still playable and it is. I remember the guy even said another person logged on but they couldnt play a game as there werent enough gamers. That game came out in 2005 on 360. I even played World at War here and there up until maybe 2022 when I finally called it quits. Still active servers even though theres only 500 people playing. You could even buy the map packs if you wanted to. Though at this point nobody is buying them since everyone still playing probably has them already. And the leaderboards and stat tracking still updated. Even greedy Activision keeps the games active when you'd think they shut down all these old games hoping they move to recent games which are $$$ and mtx galore.

End of the day, I think most companies just shut it down permanently since they want gamers to move on to the next game. If it's easy enough to do, you'd think they try to update it for offline mode, sell it dirt cheap for $9.99 forever and let any bargain bin gamers go wild for any sales they can get over a decade. No different than any oldies selling on ecosystems for ages where it looks like they'll be there forever unless the site shuts down. But they want gamers to move on and buy new stuff.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

But for easy stuff that can be left online for dirt cheap, I dont see how any big corporation cant just leave it on. Are a small number of servers that expensive to maintain for years?

If it's self hosted, it's probably not a big deal to keep it up. But even then the OS that the VM is running on will eventually be out of support. Are you going to do regular maintenance, patching, etc on a game which only 300 CCU on Steam are playing?

Cloud can get pricey.

 

[ClosBSAS]

Anthem 2.0 should have happened. Game was incredible. Lots of fun. But baby whining gamers found something to hate and never let it take off.

 

[ComputerBlue]

The game as a whole was absolute trash but the movement system was pretty good, I have to say.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I wonder if the big publishers are going rush to start killing all the servers for flop games in case stop killing games starts getting traction in the EU and they have to start filling in 1000 forms before they can cut the power.

This is exactly what's going to happen. Nobody does anything for free.

 

[rkofan87]

I wouldn't have guessed the servers for this game were even still up lol

well it did not work for me the few times i tried but the last time it did work it was ok not great.

 

[rkofan87]

its prohibitively expensive to make a patch that makes the online game into an offline game.
i do not believe you you make billions of dollars.

 

[JayK47]

Not that I ever planned to play it again. But I should be able to if I ever wanted to. No reason to not give it one last offline only patch beyond being dicks. I'm not pro regulation or anything, but there should be a law that the servers either need to always be on or they need to patch it to not need servers.