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After 11 Years EA is shutting down the servers of the original Burnout Paradise release in August
- Thread starter Phamit
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Take me down to EA's server city, where the player count is low and the costs ain't pretty. Oh, won't you please leave them up?
Always a shame to see servers shut down, but 11 years is a good run. At least the remaster should stick around for a while.
Would love the know the cost of keeping these servers up and running, or how much it takes up employees time maintaining them.
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but this game ruined that song for me. After booting up that game so many times last generation, I never want to hear the first 30 seconds of that song ever again.
Yeah, fully featured campaign and all that good shit. It was one of the first games I remember where the offline and online portion of the game really blended together, but even so releasing a multiplayer-only game in 2008 was never gonna go well.
Coordinating that on a server full of randoms by using the goddamn DualShock 3 to type in messages to everyone was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my entire life.
This game literally turned me into a Guns N Roses fan and cultivated my taste in music to this day. Has a special place.
I get what you're saying but this is also the reason we don't have Wii or DS wifi connection still up
Fuck me, I was waiting for the season pass to go on sale and drop back to 6€. Looks like I'll have to drop that cash sooner than expected.
A fan ran a server for over a decade for everyone with no restrictions?
While it hasn't been running for a decade. Fans reconstructed the Japanese Server codes for Resident Evil Outbreak to bring the game back online through original hardware or emulation.
There should be a requirement that server hosting tools or some kind of solution is in place when a company shuts down the servers for a game. Otherwise what is to become of all these games in the future when a company has finally decided to pull the plug on something? Driveclub is a perfect example of this. An open source non commercial/sold for profit solution should have to be provided at shutdown of the company hosted server. I worry about what happens with games like Destiny or the Division when we get to that point with them. The only real hope honestly is the PC versions get reverse engineered at its end of life by the community to find a way to keep playing, similar to old WoW servers.
There's a shitload of games in that exact situation, yes.
Hell, there are PS2 games with fan servers still running
Will fans be able to comply with regulatory user data storage and processing practices? Will they be trying to keep years old systems up to date?
When shit goes wrong and data is accessed by external parties due to the game relying on years old and outdated packages with likely an infinite amount of security holes by now, are the fans going to be responsible for the legal ramifications? Releasing server software is not exactly straightforward due to these and many other reasons. :)
Bless this game. It was one of the best games last gen. Probably have well over a thousand hours in it.
That's impressive. Maybe some sort of private server handoff system should be implemented. I'd rather it be a company that can pay people to upkeep servers than fans doing volunteer work tbh
You got me there. All I can reply with is
You still owe me dinosaurs in Battlefield :).
I wish companies would get sued for not providing fan tools to run online servers after official upkeep is unfeasible
Moreso I'm upset with Sony for how they launch a game and then kill the online six months later like it's no big deal, but it's still upsetting to see games like this lose a huge part of what makes them special. It makes my inner games-conservationist cry
Moreso I'm upset with Sony for how they launch a game and then kill the online six months later like it's no big deal, but it's still upsetting to see games like this lose a huge part of what makes them special. It makes my inner games-conservationist cry
