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"City of Heroes is closing down"
Sep. 3rd, 2012 09:10 amLink.
Generally speaking, I don't much like or care about MMOs, as I've said many times in the past. Even the one that I went on and on about and for which I even tried the beta, I still ultimately ended up not biting the hook. (And given recent news, I'm kind of glad I didn't.*) The fact that these games can close down like this after less than a decade is yet another reason for me not to ever get invested in them in any way. What other type of game out there can just... stop... and then be completely inaccessible and unplayable forever afterward, due to the whim of a publisher or whoever happens to hold the IP at that time? I can still play Atari 2600 or NES games to this very day if I want, but will I be able to play several recently released MMOs in a few years (assuming I ever wanted to in the first place, which I admittedly don't)? Or even right now, for that matter.
Not to go off on a semi-related rant again, but this is also yet another reason among many why all the online-only DRM** that is being shoehorned into even singleplayer games these days is such a terrible thing.
* - My only hope is that coming out of all of this will allow Funcom to stop with all this MMO malarkey and get back to what they did best.
** - Or any other type of server/client relationship. I'm looking at you OnLive.
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Generally speaking, I don't much like or care about MMOs, as I've said many times in the past. Even the one that I went on and on about and for which I even tried the beta, I still ultimately ended up not biting the hook. (And given recent news, I'm kind of glad I didn't.*) The fact that these games can close down like this after less than a decade is yet another reason for me not to ever get invested in them in any way. What other type of game out there can just... stop... and then be completely inaccessible and unplayable forever afterward, due to the whim of a publisher or whoever happens to hold the IP at that time? I can still play Atari 2600 or NES games to this very day if I want, but will I be able to play several recently released MMOs in a few years (assuming I ever wanted to in the first place, which I admittedly don't)? Or even right now, for that matter.
Not to go off on a semi-related rant again, but this is also yet another reason among many why all the online-only DRM** that is being shoehorned into even singleplayer games these days is such a terrible thing.
* - My only hope is that coming out of all of this will allow Funcom to stop with all this MMO malarkey and get back to what they did best.
** - Or any other type of server/client relationship. I'm looking at you OnLive.
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