"Yikes: GameSpy Shutdown Will Affect A Lot Of Games"

[kane_magus]

Yep, the "future" of gaming has arrived. First it was Games For Windows Live, and now it's GameSpy. Well, I guess that's what happens when you rely on a "dedicated" third-party service to power your online/multiplayer shit rather than doing it yourself. Sure, it may have freed you up from having to run your own servers and all that jazz, but when the service arbitrarily goes down for good, you and your customers are just SOL at that point, unless you do something about it. So how many of those old ass games that I'm sure at least some people still play are going to have anything done with them to rectify this? We'll see, I guess. I fully expect to see more such aging services to shut down in the coming years.

*looks warily at the likes of Steam, Origin, and such, not to mention stuff like Xbox Live and Playstation Network* (NB4 cries of "You're being ridiculous! Steam will never, ever be shut down!")

I'm just glad that I hardly play multiplayer games at all, so this doesn't personally affect me. ¬_¬