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    psp SCEA to end online service for older titles

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    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
    Last edited by Shrygue; April 7th, 2008 at 17:32.

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    Yeah, this news is a few days old...

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    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.

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by osgeld View Post
    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


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    Quote Originally Posted by JKKDARK View Post
    Or even worse... Electronic Arts
    XDXD

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

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