The Battleborn situation was expected; I’m surprised it hasn’t already been shut down. This is another example of why I despise the concept of online-only games…
You get a game that’s online-only and enjoy the hell out of it…
Most people don’t really care for this game…
Due to this game being unpopular and thus… unsuccessful…the company pulls the plug on that shit sooner rather than later.
The game dies. You CANNOT play it, even though you spent the fucking money to get it. Imagine how absurd that sounds with anything else…like you have the blu-ray set of let’s say Game of Thrones…but let’s say this is an alternate universe where no one liked that shit and it was canceled. Because no one else likes it and HBO dropped it…suddenly your blu-ray stops functioning. Well, I guess you can’t watch that anymore. The very idea of that is fucking stupid.
So…these types of games are extended rentals, basically…and sometimes you can’t play anymore, simply because it never caught on with everyone else and thus the company naturally sees no reason to continue the servers for shit that only 8 to 10 people in the world are playing. (*oh and other times you can’t play because of server maintenance [guess what console Diablo 3 fans can do that PC Diablo 3 fans CAN’T on a Tuesday in fairness they may have changed that by now but previously, server maintenance was always on Tuesdays.]…or the company goes belly up, or countless other reasons too. …but somehow, gamers everywhere are perfectly fine with this nonsense.)
I’d like to try the sealed copy of battleborn that I bought at wallys world a few years ago for ten bucks or so, but I don’t have PlayStation Plus and I don’t care to subscribe again either. Hilarious that whatever single player content battleborn has won’t be accessible either. Wut?
PC is the only platform where games like this can still live. Activision shut down the master servers for Return to Castle Wolfenstein shortly after they lost the rights to Bethesda, and because of that you couldn’t properly matchmake anymore. The community came up with a fix and you can play it online again.
Battlefront II was the same until it was fixed a while back and you can play online with the steam or gog versions. Good luck playing it online on the og suxbox or PS2.
medal of Honor allied assault multi-player servers went down with gamespy, along with every single multi-player game on the nintendont ds and nintendont wii.
The community came up with a fix and I can play an almost twenty year old game online still. Good luck playing ds and wii games online.
Sony waxes servers all the time. If Killzone 2 was on Pc, aka one of the GOAT fps games I could still play online. Sadly it’s not and not only can you not play it online, you can’t earn online trophies either. Good game. Driveclub didn’t last long and Gravity Rush 2 had its servers go down quick as hell. They also have the gall to charge you to play online on top of all of this shit too.
Sure if you hack your console. I’d rather not hack a console in the hopes of playing with other hackers.
Do you remember how glitchy mgsiv was online? People shooting at you from inside the ground and shit. Imagine that plus dealing with people who probably have hacked save files to cqc your ass from 1/2 way across the map.
Other than mgo and like 20 people jumping through 75 hoops to play socom online on PS2, I can’t think of too many other games that people are playing after they were taken down on console, and in every case you have to do a shitload of work on your end to get it to work, sometimes even hacking your console which is ridiculous imo.
Got Sekiro on PC for $36 today. Not very far in it yet (just got the flame thrower and the axe), but I’m enjoying it so far. Glad to see that they made it a lot less obtuse than from tends to, with regular tutorials and a real training area. Also enjoying approaching it like a modern tenchu where I can.
If you’re in ze Pal region Shinobido on PS2 was a spiritual successor to Tenchu by the same devs I believe.
If you own a Vita it got a sequel there.
MGO2 was so glitchy man.
People could glitch themselves into the ground and could shoot the shiiiet out of you, and you die to what would look like half an arm coming out of the ground…with a gun.
A lot of people loved MGO2 but my memories are mainly from how glitchy it was and how weird it was Konami forced me to make some account just to play it online, at a time where you’d never see that on console. Obviously now ea, Bethesda, ubisoft etc all want you to make an account for whatever reason.
Bethesda wanted me to make an account to play Quake Champions on Steam amd instead of making one I closed the game and uninstalled it.
MGO2 still gives me bad memories to this day. Aside from bad hit detection and all, it was just all-around awful with that Drebin points system, the Friendly Fire mechanism, and a bunch of other things I’m forgetting.
And yet, somehow MGO3 was even worse. I at least tried with MGO2 over a while. I gave MGO3 like one 20 minute shot and knew I was never playing that shit again. I was right, because it even turned off hardcore (up to that point) fans of the MGO series.
You know there still people playing Phantasy Star Online as Multiplayer.
Its Mostly people playing PC with Blue Burst, but the biggest private server out there (dude bought the server from Sega) has Action Replay Codes/Game Shark Codes for Dreamcast and Game Cube players
He supports Ep I and II but not Ep III.
He also has all the event quests including the awful AOL themed Event Quest.
in fairness they may have changed that by now but previously, server maintenance was always on Tuesdays.]…or the company goes belly up, or countless other reasons too. …but somehow, gamers everywhere are perfectly fine with this nonsense.)
