Tell me about that time a game you really liked got shut down

What's wrong? If a game doesn't work when the servers are shut down it's GaaS, I'm sorry that your favourite game is GaaS or whatever.

yes it's gaas slop by definition, anything that can be "shut down" in the first place is automatically gaas slop
zoomers like you probably don't know anything about peer to peer

I don't get why they stopped it. It played well

Gundam Evolution, which was entirely Bamco's fault and I don't think they actually wanted to make it but investors pushed for an Overwatch clone. I actually enjoyed it and the novelty of using different mobile suits was enjoyable, just needed more love and less predatory MTXs. Seeing Gundam skins in Overwatch almost gave me an aneurysm.

full of chinks/rusniggers

lagged like a motherfucker (1s delay on everything even though I had 100ms latency)

admins banning people for "industrial farming"

no form of dynamic respawn so questing in certain areas was fucking impossible because of the super high population

it was shit, like most pservers

bro just make your own P2P system for another company's game

Part of me is still kind of miffed Marvel Heroes got shut down. Was a pretty decent diablo clone.
Wildstar and Tera both come to mind as well but Wildstar deserved it in all honesty with how shitty their launch was.

Yeah, it did play pretty well. I think the monetization and cosmetics aspect was pretty poor which doesn't do well with the casual audience. No one likes the idea of needing to purchase DLC characters in a team game to compete in the meta

RIFT. One of the few WoW clones that was really fucking fun. Like 80% of the game design was straight up copypasted from WoW but it did enough things differently to feel like something new and interesting. Mostly the class design and talent system.

And then they made it f2p and started filling it with microtransactions and pay2win shit (you could literally buy raid-level epics with real money) and the population nosedived even further. Right now it's still technically playable, but there's literally less than 1000 players worldwide and it still has all the same issues of pay2win shit and garbage design.

Dystopia. Didn't get shut down per say but it's dead. There's never been another game like it and there never will be and that makes me really really fucking sad.

This game was never destined to last long, but I enjoyed the couple of years it was around.

Pokemon duel

Still miss atlas reactor, game was great.
I think so few people played it because they made an Overwatch Trailer and viewbotted the fuck out of it. Probably threw off the majority of people who checked it out and saw it was actually a team turn-based pvp game.
I think there was a group trying to reverse engineer the servers, not sure how that went.
Very cool concept that I would

Planetside 1. I really wish I had gotten to play it before most of it's playerbase left due to SOE's fuckery because even in it's diminished state it was the greatest game I had ever immersed myself in. The sound design especially was so fucking good that I can still almost perfectly hear all the noises of battle set to the stellar soundtrack.

Planetside 2 was such a colossal disappointment in pretty much every regard and, the last time I checked, the PSForever private server was completely dead.
The closest thing that's come to scratching the itch is Foxhole, but I've been having trouble getting into it due to how convoluted it's logistics are.

11 years since the last Lost Planet

It wasn't even that good

I miss it bros

i played planetside 2 before it shut down it almost felt like dust 514 i wonder why game like these always die

That's what you get for not releasing your games on the third world.
If the retards at Bandai didnt have their heads so high up their asses maybe the game would still be alive.

that I would love to see again* oops

Rumbleverse

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

I loved being part of the community of the sandbox lobby in epicmafia and all the vibrant personalities and people and inside jokes and memes and all of the OC everyone created all the time. Then one day the site admin and/or the mods were revealed in some serious cheese pizza scandal and it was suddenly shut down forever.

Still sad about it. But there was a specific race in the game that was simply too controversial and the devs couldn't put up with the heat.

company doesn't allow you to set up p2p for free

gaas bootlicker goy

There was an ultima online emulated server I really liked modded to hell to be like diablo and PoE with tons of custom items and content. The owner disappeared without a trace, then eventually the server shut down. Its like the guy just died and his PC was still running for two years before anyone noticed. Everything else just isn't as fun. I miss making potions and fishing to make sure I have enough supplies to finish one of the absurdly long dungeons, then coming home to my comfy tower to sort the loot out into what I'll sell in town the next day or keep, where I might bump into another player and roleplay a bit. There weren't many but they were pretty friendly for brazilians.

Tree of Savior

Not shutdown yet, but fucking dead. Which is a shame.

Eden eternal was a pretty standard mmo but I liked the job system more than ffxiv
And the music was great

I just can't believe EA dropped BfV just before giving us some proper eastern front maps.
Game was fun desu.

Hell yeah dude, RIFT was the best tab-target hotkey PvE MMO. Even had some nice PvP at times. Trion mismanaged the fuck out of it because they were running two other MMOs at the same time PLUS a TV show for one of them. Then they sold it to Gamigo and now it rots.

I don't remember everything 100% but here's the gist of it

Korean MMO

people have a habit of opening up a shop in the middle of town before they go to bed and putting their most expensive stuff in it. Pets, mounts, reinforced equipment, etc. they set the prices to 9999999999999 gold which is way too high for anyone to actually buy, or so they thought.

the games economy revolves around Xen stones, rare drops used to enhance weapon and armors

guy discovers a duplication glitch, creates unlimited xen stones and quietly sells them for about a week

one night he decides to strike. he buys up all the rare shit people show off in their shops but have no actual intention of selling

people wake up and lose their shit when their most prized possessions have been bought

everyone has 9999999999999999 gold in their inventory, but that shit doesn't matter when there's no high level/reinforced equipment on the market to buy anymore

since it's a Korean mmo, the English publishers Outspark apparently didn't have the technical tools to just roll everything back to the night before

in game economy is absolutely fucked because everyone has a lot of in game gold and nothing to buy with it creating hyperinflation

shit is so fucked that they created a second server for the game so that everyone can have a 'fair start' all over again

game also tried to relaunch/rebrand as Solstice Reborn

most of the players never got over the duplication incident and just quit the game. game never quite recovered after that.

It died

then it lived again

Exteel. I miss you.

Why did it shutdown on PC but the servers are still up on consoles? I figured if they cared about money it would be the other way around since most people play MMOs on PC.

That is fucking hilarious

game you really liked

I have had no particularly strong feelings about any game being shut down. Mostly because I left them first as they had fundamentally changed into something no longer enjoyable.

Pic related. It wasn't an amazing game, but my god was it fun being in a gunfight with a hundred other players.

I also enjoyed that game for a few weeks, it was solid but ugly as fuck. People hate fighting games in general so it never really stood a chance, it was a brave experiment that was destined to fail. I knew it wouldn't last long so i got my matches in while i could, even won a few

Legends of Norrath is the only game I've played that shut down. Kind of fun but never that big. On the other hand there's like 5 games I like more that aren't too far away from falling apart.

I'll also add steam's version of GBO2, where they launched it with the shitty ban system that gave you lengthy penalties for leaving matches but then had it apply even if the server crashed and kicked you. This, during the terrible launch server instability meant most of the playerbase had a fucking temp match ban in the first week of the game. No wonder everyone dipped or stuck with console.

It's always going to be Tabula Rasa, never been topped, copied or even vaguely replicated (Fuck off with Firefall, what a dumpster fire).

Blacklight retribution
It was genuinely alright and fun to play but the devs went jew mode and eventually it killed the game

Super Mario 35

Man I miss just setting up traps and spotting all game. Id spot, trap and tranq dart so much I'd always be top 3 from playing passively.

world's adrift

fuck you and thanks for making the games fun

I'm one of the 3 people who liked LID Deathverse

Actually got pretty good at it too, i won or placed high in every match just before it died. The skill ceiling was just too high for the average f2p kiddo

Super Monday Night Combat was a third person hero shooter MOBA with more potential than anything I have ever seen. Brilliant characters, interesting world building, and absolutely hilarious announcers/color commentators/interviewers whose voice lines were added to regularly. There were times after updates I heard new lines and I'd have to stop playing and laugh with the bros.

Christ Almighty, Uber mishandled it so badly. It's hard to believe. They had lightning in a bottle and pissed it away. The game was too casual for esports, but too difficult for casual babbies. The result was a niche game that rewarded you so highly if you could get into it. It died a decade ago and I still miss it.