What's the oldest console game with still active online servers?

I'm intrigued by really old games that still have somewhat alive online communities

I know people are still playing old games Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast on private servers, but does anyone know what the oldest official running servers are?
 
Diablo 2? I know it's a remaster, but it plays exactly the same and you can even toggle the old graphics on the fly. Just off the top of my head. Maybe something else.
 
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Final Fantasy XI should be up there, but as they migrated everyone to the PC client its a bit of a dodgy claim. Characters created on PS2 are definitely still active on FFXI to this day though, which has to count for something.
 
there are console games that run on pure P2P like Perfect Dark Zero from 2005. you can still play that online. so that game never had any servers to begin with.

but also all Xbox 360 Call of Duty games still work.

Phantasy Star on Dreamcast is kinda cheating as it's fan hosted servers, the official ones are offline.


I bet there are also PS2 and Dreamcast games that still work online for the same reason Perfect Dark Zero does, because they are purely P2P.

like does anyone know if Time Splitters 3 works online? or Socom?
 
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Does Battlefield Modern Combat on PS2 still work? I'm also convinced some PS2 CoD games are still online.

any game that didn't use a third party online service and instead uses p2p direct connections should still work.
but I'm not sure if PS2 games like that exist. I never really played online on PS2.

some games back then used stuff like GameSpy, which went offline a while ago.
a free alternative called OpenSpy is now available tho, and there are people playing through that still.

as of writing this, there are 277 people playing EverQuest on the 1 server that's online over OpenSpy.
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Ultima sounds about right.

Old ass gamers still unwilling to "give it up"....

Edit: nvm, you said "console"...yea, that's an entirely different sect of gamers...
 
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FFXI is still running with a pretty dedicated community no? it was a PS2 game that started in 2002 and went on to PC and Xbox also. thou the console versions have had their support ended a long time ago but the PC version is still kicking.
 
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