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Words Of Wisdom on 03 December 2007

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Sad News: Monster Hunter and Resident Evil: Outbreak servers shutting down

This news was just confirmed internally, and I wanted people to know ASAP.

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After more than 3 years of online service, the external company providing server hosting for both Resident Evil: Outbreak and Monster Hunter has decided to exit the PlayStation 2 online business altogether, with no possibility of outsourcing either the service or the technology.

 

This means that online gameplay for both games will come to an end on December 31, 2007. Fortunately, the single-player campaigns in both games will be unaffected by this change and will continue to provide hours of entertainment on both PlayStation 2 and backwards-compatible PlayStation 3 hardware. Thank you for supporting Capcom’s online titles over the years!

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And just so you know, although these are older titles, we did want to make an effort to keep the fans happy and continue supporting online play. We’ve tried to extend the contract, move it someplace else, etc. It’s not happening. The hosting partner (who I guess remains nameless here) is just quitting the business entirely and doesn’t want to mess around with the time/money involved in porting anything. Thanks to everyone who has kept these games fun online for so many years.


Poor Capcom. They're getting hosed.

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NJ5 on 03 December 2007

This is why Microsoft was smart with their Xbox Live service - Microsoft runs all the game servers so there's no excuse to shut down online play. Sony makes 3rd party companies run their own servers, which costs them money to implement and maintain.



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tk1989 on 03 December 2007

thats pretty crap for owners of those game, ive heard that Monster Hunter is pretty big...



Yojimbo on 03 December 2007
NJ5 said:
This is why Microsoft was smart with their Xbox Live service - Microsoft runs all the game servers so there's no excuse to shut down online play. Sony makes 3rd party companies run their own servers, which costs them money to implement and maintain.
I'm not going to pay $$$/year for online service.

 



 
Neos on 03 December 2007
Yojimbo said:
NJ5 said:
This is why Microsoft was smart with their Xbox Live service - Microsoft runs all the game servers so there's no excuse to shut down online play. Sony makes 3rd party companies run their own servers, which costs them money to implement and maintain.
I'm not going to pay $$$/year for online service.

 


 Why not? you don't have the money?



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thetonestarr on 03 December 2007

It's a dilemma. Do you opt for free online and risk losing the online capabilities while you still care about them, or do you pay more money than online play is worth to a lot of people, but at least theoretically have online until nobody cares about it anymore?

 

I say theoretically because there's still no guarantee that M$ won't decide to cut off Live support for games, just because you're paying for it. 



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kirby007 on 03 December 2007
thetonestarr said:
It's a dilemma. Do you opt for free online and risk losing the online capabilities while you still care about them, or do you pay more money than online play is worth to a lot of people, but at least theoretically have online until nobody cares about it anymore?

not really i love too have things my way^^ so i pay



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thetonestarr on 03 December 2007

Your statement is invalid due to not making sense as a response to the original post.

PLZ TRY AGAIN.



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Bodhesatva on 03 December 2007
Yojimbo said:
NJ5 said:
This is why Microsoft was smart with their Xbox Live service - Microsoft runs all the game servers so there's no excuse to shut down online play. Sony makes 3rd party companies run their own servers, which costs them money to implement and maintain.
I'm not going to pay $$$/year for online service.

 


There's definitely two sides to the argument, and I can understand not wanting to pay. However, just keep in mind... you want free, this sort of thing is going to happen. I expect we'll see in the future games like CoD go offline on the PS3 in a couple years, while they're still supported and running effectively on the 360.

 



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kirby007 on 03 December 2007
thetonestarr said:
Your statement is invalid due to not making sense as a response to the original post.

PLZ TRY AGAIN.

and yours is??



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