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Slinky Nov 25, 2016 @ 3:23pm
What happens to MP only games after servers shut down?
Battlefront for example. That game has offline featuers but is almost entirely MP. What happens when games like that shut down it's servers? Are the games useless then?

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Spawn of Totoro Nov 25, 2016 @ 3:32pm 
Yep. Any MP aspect of the game (unless it supports LAN) will usualy become useless.
Pizmo Nov 25, 2016 @ 3:34pm 
I would imagine they just die.

There's a chance that the game might go on in some limited fashion using things like gameranger. But once the main server goes down the game is pretty much dead
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RRW359 Nov 25, 2016 @ 7:32pm 
If the fans are determined and the game doesn't have some weird thing stopping it then they will find a way to keep multiplayer going, but it will take a lot of effort to get onto it and new players other than diehard fans will be rare.

If not, then the game ends up as a $60+ paperweight.
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Azza ☠ Nov 25, 2016 @ 8:19pm 
There will still be unoffical servers created and running for it. However, they tend to not be as popular or lead into hacking/cheats, corrupted admins, etc. Or just lan parties between friends.
ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ Nov 25, 2016 @ 8:21pm 
I wonder this with games that require "always online" to play.

I doubt the servers will stay online forever so in years to come if you want to go back to that old game you played you wont be able to play it,

at least thats what I think.
Dr. Fronkensteen Nov 25, 2016 @ 9:45pm 
Originally posted by 💕 𝓐𝓶𝔂 💕:
I wonder this with games that require "always online" to play.

I doubt the servers will stay online forever so in years to come if you want to go back to that old game you played you wont be able to play it,

at least thats what I think.

This is true, and why pretty much every one gets pissed off when they do this to predominantly single player games. Like Simcity was a few years back.

There is not even any legal recourse at the moment because of the eulas we all agree to, though I suspect if it happened on a major scale, like origin or steam shutting down, (though Valve has repeatedly claimed they would fix games to be playable without steam if something happened), a class action may get the rules changed.
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RRW359 Nov 26, 2016 @ 1:12am 
Originally posted by 💕 𝓐𝓶𝔂 💕:
I wonder this with games that require "always online" to play.

I doubt the servers will stay online forever so in years to come if you want to go back to that old game you played you wont be able to play it,

at least thats what I think.
I know I'm basically repeating what the above poster said, but that is one of the reasons people complain about AO games. Why do they want me to pay $60 for a game I won't be able to play in 10 years (and that's optimistic)? I know some people only play games for a year or two after launch, but I don't want something on my steam library constantly reminding me that I spent $60 on nothing.
Slinky Nov 26, 2016 @ 6:28am 
Well this is kind of bs then. I understand MP is a really big part of gaming now but come on, developers can't just be making games that are almost exclusively MP that will be fun for a few years (if good enough) and become junk in the future. Some of us don't want to keep spending $60 (or however expensive games become in the future) just to play something for a year or two and repeat.

Unfortunately I think people now are just accepting that multiplayer is the main focus now and longevity is no longer relevant. I mean come on, as awesome as Battlefield is now, that concept is the same as when it first came out, just with insanely better graphics, physics, etc. Don't even get started on Call of Duty. They just keep releasing new versions of it with almost identical gameplay each time. Yet people keep buying new versions when if everyone would stick with the first version, that version would still be popular instead of being dead.
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