What happens when a company decides "We cant (or don't want to) support the servers any more."? Short answer: you enter the town of Fuck-a-Roo'd-Population: You and everyone else who bought the game. Long Answer? this post.
My buddy was telling me that chrome hounds is awesome and yeah it sure looks like it-too bad it flew under my radar and I only found out about like a year ago. I cannot experience that game to the fullest anymore. There is something terribly wrong there. Now again younger readers won't understand but I will try to explain. I can go to any retro store or ebay and buy a NES game and plop it into my top loader and it will play the entire full game no questions asked. THAT is what I am used to. This whole we can take 50% or more of the game away from you at any given time is what's the word here...I want to be eloquent...it's Bullshit. Thats like one day that same game just cuts out at a certain point. Yeah once you get to level 3 the game just stops it just ends.
Multiplayer is the focus of many games these days and single player campaigns are a second thought if a thought at all. COD, BF, all those games that really target the online market are considered amazing games but why? When those servers eventually close (and they will one day) people will re-visit them and find out "Single player sucks!" A game isnt amazing by its ability to wow you for a year or two it is earns its amazing title by forever wowing you.
What's that? The game is awesome so it'll never shut the servers? Yeah ATLUS is laughing at you. Demon's Souls is considered one of the best games for PS3 and it's been out for roughly 2 years. The servers go bye bye this month. I cannot play with my brother in Manhattan anymore...The thing about it is online play is a SELLING point that devs flaunt and shove in your face. YOU CAN PLAY WITH ANYONE IN THE WORLD BUY IT BUY IT! only to find that-that promise cannot be maintained forever-it just can't. So games become sort of temporary and that is very sad friends.
That's like me pointing to my retro collection and saying "It works but we can't play it-devs weren't thinking about lasting power." To me it is so foreign and in some ways wrong. Maybe I am showing my age but I feel that it is a matter of common sense. Hm? oh ok yeah go buy that extra map pack for an extra 20 bucks putting you at 80 bucks for a game. whats that you bought the "collector's edition" so with the maps you're at 100-120 bucks for one game...and those maps are only good online? so when they shut the servers down you're 100-120 into a game that is no longer whole? you're right I don't have common sense.
Some of you less appreciative types might be saying I won't want to play a game when it gets old-who cares? Do you own pokemon on GBA and N64? If you do you are already embracing the nostalgia of games of yesteryear-you will not be able to do that here. Multiplayer is great and all but I am of the mind that if it consists of nearly half of the game then it is a crappy game. Oh no? "It's a great game but don't buy it." Don't buy it is something you say about a bad game isn't it? In my day a good game was indeed a good game and you better damned well buy it or else everyone you know will be playing Super Mario 3 and you won't be.
Gaming today seems to me very short sighted. While there are plenty of single player games that are whole and solid I look at these mega titles and they often boast online play. This is like being excited for the world's biggest ice cream sandwich on the hottest day ever. sure it hits the spot for a while but before you can finish it's melted away. Think about those poor bastards who bought demon's souls the day before they shut the servers down.
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