Why would they make a story out of bad news especially when the affected population is going to be extremely low.
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So apparently Sony is just straight up shutting games down with no prior announcement? (StarHawk)
- Thread starter Krvavi Abadas
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5-year old PS3 game that probably no one even plays anymore. Hard to get outraged over this, sorry.
But fuck Sony, amirite?
But fuck Sony, amirite?
I bet Warhawk demo servers are still up. I think I spent over 200 hours just on that little and simple demo.
Damn 6 years fly by fast to bad it couldn't be as great as Warhawk I spent years playing that.
A F2P Warhawk with just cosmetics would be great.
A F2P Warhawk with just cosmetics would be great.
So I'll say this: Starhawk Ultimate Edition is still currently for sale on the PS Store without mention of the shutdown, and it specifies that multiplayer is included. Maybe someone should edit that listing?
Edit: Speak of the devil, revised text for your reading pleasure:
It's not up on the parent page, but it is on the page before you can actually buy it.
Edit: Speak of the devil, revised text for your reading pleasure:
It's not up on the parent page, but it is on the page before you can actually buy it.
I haven't played it recently, yeah, but only because I didn't think it'd be shutting down fucking tomorrow. Not really well thought out opinions.
They still have TLOU coming up, and if it's anything like the original it'll be mainly a multiplayer game for me. The MP was 1000x better than the campaign for me and one of my all time favorites, despite their worse-than-EA garbage tier micro transactions.
Is this seriously an outrage thread over a game from 2012 that no one played? Holy shit. Are you forgetting how many times they warned about Gravity Rush 2 online going down? Demon's Souls? They gave so many warnings for those I got tired of seeing them.
Starhawk released in 2012. I'm genuinely shocked at anyone who still plays it. Wasn't even as good as Warhawk.
Starhawk released in 2012. I'm genuinely shocked at anyone who still plays it. Wasn't even as good as Warhawk.
I wouldn't be surprised if it averaged literally 0 players on a weekly basis and had 0 sales over the last year.
They likely messaged everyone in-game and directly via PSN.
It's bad precedent. I don't want to spend every day thinking I won't be able to play x game I had fun with a couple years ago with zero notice. That would irrevocably alter my gaming habits in a negative way for me, because frankly I'm not often in the mood for old online games. But that doesn't mean I want to play it one last time.
These alerts aren't for the few people that have been playing it. That makes no sense; their behavior will probably be unchanged until the day the servers are down. It's for the people that haven't played in a while that maybe want a couple more evenings more to it.
They are the owners of Starhawk that least need to be notified about the game shutting down. If I've been playing Starhawk these last few weeks, my behavior wouldn't change if I get notified or not.
I don't know what they were thinking with Starhawk, it was no where near as fun as Warhawk. Just didn't have the magic at all. All they had to do was make a Warhawk 2 with better graphics, more detailed maps, a few gameplay enhancements, and it would've been a hit.
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No, there's not. Because evidently Sony deleted the entire in-game news section. This is what it looks like now.
So no in-game notice, and no mention on Sony's page for shut down servers. The only way you'd even know they're taking them down is by checking the Playstation Store page. Which is completely useless for anyone who already owns the game!
But at least there's people playing it now, i'd imagine a good chunk of which are because they just learnt about the shutdown.
Maybe a combo of "it doesn't affect me" plus "it's old"? Not sure tbh, and I don't really understand it either, given how often people clamour for remasters or BC. At least they gave a year's worth of warning for PS+ no longer giving games on PS3 / Vita.
...you can still play Warhawk. Even today.
Starhawk was such a disappointment. Ugh.
I mean the way they've handled it isn't the best but honestly I'm surprised it wasn't already shut down years ago
To be fair there has been warning month ago. You can't expect a heavy marketing for a server shut down. It's normal if people don't follow this kind of info regularly.
I played this game for a couple of days last week and only around 10-20 people are still playing it.
Basically it's a normal shutdown just like all other games before it no matter the publisher.
I played this game for a couple of days last week and only around 10-20 people are still playing it.
Basically it's a normal shutdown just like all other games before it no matter the publisher.
It's already available. It's called Fortnite.
Jk, they play exactly the same though.
True, they're very similar.
I'm remembering how bad the gunplay & and the insta-kill grenades were lol
Knew about this at least a month ago. The EU page was updated at least then. So it wasn't like a 1 day notice thing.
It's not online only. I finished the single player. Pretty unmemorable.
Yeah, only on the store page. There's a difference between shouting from the rooftops that the server will shut down and not even bothering putting it on their server shutdown page with the rest of their shutdowns.
They could have at least put it on that page + sent out a tweet or something. No one checks the store page, because no one is buying a digital copy of a 2012 game when used game stores like GameStop have it for much cheaper.
Man. I made the atrocious, last minute OT on gaf, but I was upset at some of the decision making in that game. Zones was THE mode to play but design flaws prevented it from being great/popular and so it died.
But can you imagine when they heard Fortnite became a thing when they had build and battle as their thing way back then? Neat idea, but poorly realized.
But can you imagine when they heard Fortnite became a thing when they had build and battle as their thing way back then? Neat idea, but poorly realized.
I know a friend who plays daily and he has a group of about 15 friends on a clan from Mexico that still play.
I am sure it is not very populated but enough to play everyday.
So why are the drive by shitty comments ok?
I am sure it is not very populated but enough to play everyday.
So why are the drive by shitty comments ok?
I'm honestly surprised it was still up.
Bullshit they shut down the online of games like Gravity Rush 2. The initial plan to shut it down within a year was complete bullshit. Just what is PS+ paying for?
Bullshit they shut down the online of games like Gravity Rush 2. The initial plan to shut it down within a year was complete bullshit. Just what is PS+ paying for?
A 24-48 hour 'notice' is a bad look but I can't imagine the player population for this was higher than single digits.
This doesn't even make sense given that the shutdown message is on the store page itself.
Is Starhawk even sold new any more? I think the negative press Sony may be trying to avoid is the more generally negative "Sony shuts their online down for another game" angle. But hey, if not enough people are playing it then it's definitely better to cut losses and invest elsewhere. I was super hyped for Starhawk when it first released but it just didn't have the staying power to remain relevant in 2018.
Didn't they announce a bunch of servers would go offline this year late last year? Either way, it could just be a matter of so few people, if any, people playing that they did not see a need.
Retail? No.
Digital? Yeah.
Also, if they wanted to avoid that PR angle, they could start by not shutting down the servers for a 15 month old game that isn't even real, synchronous multiplayer, so probably not requiring much server power (they were going to shut it down when it was 9 months old, but it got pushed back)
