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Shrygue
April 7th, 2008, 17:02
via Games Industry (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/scea-to-end-online-service-for-older-titles)


SCEA has announced that it will be shutting down the servers for a number of its older online titles for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable platforms.

According to dbTechno the online games will end on June 30 this year, and while most games will still be playable offline, two of the titles which only have online modes will become unplayable.

The closure of online play servers for older titles is a normal process, and is only usually applied to games which have a very low, or no, demand.

The full list of titles for which servers will be closed is as follows:

PlayStation 2 games

Amplitude
Destruction Derby Arenas
Everybody’s Golf
EyeToy Chat*
F1 '04
Jak X
Lemmings PS2
My Street
Syphon Filter Omega Strain
This is Football 2004
This is Football 2005
Twisted Metal: Black Online*


PlayStation Portable games

Lemmings
World Tour Soccer 2


* Denotes titles that are online-only
JKKDARK
April 7th, 2008, 17:20
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=102575
Mr. Shizzy
April 7th, 2008, 18:50
Yeah, this news is a few days old...
Buddy4point0
April 8th, 2008, 01:10
Amplitude was a really fun game.
For those of you who don't know, its like guitar hero and rock band, before guitar hero, or rock band.

It's played with a standard controller too.
osgeld
April 9th, 2008, 00:12
the # 1 problem with online games that require a company to run a server

the company will get board, or the attendance will fall below the line where its practical to run the server

now thank goodness sony is one of those few companies who support their games for a good while

but im sure anyone still playing TMB is quite pissed off right now

could be worse, like atari who gets you to pay 60 bucks for a online only game just to have it crap out less than a year later
JKKDARK
April 9th, 2008, 00:17
could be worse, like atari who gets you to pay 60 bucks for a online only game just to have it crap out less than a year later
Or even worse... Electronic Arts :rolleyes:
Ultima Chocochu
April 9th, 2008, 05:25
Or even worse... Electronic Arts :rolleyes:

XDXD

Eeh, well most of those games are pretty old
Most.