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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
If not, then the game ends up as a $60+ paperweight.
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.
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.