In a weblog put up, Epic has introduced it’s shutting down the servers and on-line companies for a lot of of its older titles starting at present. The motive is the corporate needs to, in its personal phrases, “move to solely support Epic Online Services with its unified friends system, voice chat features, parental controls, and parental verification features.”
Epic states that by January 24, the next titles not be playable on-line (albeit with some caveats, that are famous). Epic has additionally began eradicating these titles from digital storefronts and can disable DLC purchases. Most of those video games can nonetheless be performed offline should you personal them. The listing of affected video games are:
- 1000 Tiny Claws
- Dance Central 1-3 (Dance Central VR on-line multiplayer will stay out there)
- Green Day: Rock Band
- Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess
- Rock Band 1-3 (Rock Band 4 on-line multiplayer will stay out there)
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars
- Unreal Gold
- Unreal II: The Awakening
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Unreal Tournament 3 (Epic plans to carry again on-line options through Epic Online Services sooner or later.)
- Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Games with offline modes will nonetheless be playable, after all, however titles which can be constructed solely round multiplayer will successfully be useless. One instance is the free-to-play Battle Breakers, which is able to develop into completely unplayable on December 30. Epic will refund in-game purchases that have been made in Battle Breakers 180 days previous to at present.
Additionally, the writer has already eliminated the Mac and Linux variations of Hatoful Boyfriend and Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star from shops, in addition to the cellular model of DropMix. Owners will nonetheless have the ability to entry these titles, although. Unreal Tournament (Alpha), Rock Band Blitz, the Rock Band Companion app and SingSpace can even stop operations on January 24.
Several of those video games are over a decade outdated, so it isn’t stunning to see Epic pulling the plug on their on-line servers, particularly if the communities aren’t very lively. Still, it stinks to see this occur from a preservationist standpoint. Will you be logging on-line to play Unreal Tournament 2004 or The Beatles: Rock Band with mates earlier than January 24? Let us know within the feedback!
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