WTF Nintendo!? Why have you done this!?

[MatrosRx]

noname2200 said:

etking said:
It is not Nintendo's fault that Gamespy, the company running the Nintendo online services, ceased operation.

From what I understand, they could have continued paying Gamespy to run the servers, but chose not to. This isn't a slam against Nintendo by the way: the servers were up and running for about a decade, and the last new game that used those servers was released, what, three or four years ago? But this statement isn't completely accurate.

It's affecting a lot of PC games too. Star Wars Battlefront, Neverwinter Nights, a bunch of EA titles for an example. There's even a couple of PS3 titles closing servers because of it if I remember correctly. Luckily for PC though, patching is something they can do to fix the problem. The Wii can't patch so Nintendo has no choice but to close off Gamespy orientated servers.

I heard rumours about companies being able to subscribe again last year if they really wanted to, but apparently the cost for maintaining the servers jumped ridiculously high that no company in their right mind would want to, so the servers are closing. But that's all hearsay.