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As of 6 November 2014 you will no longer be able to use the online features of the following game:

PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita
MLB 13 The Show

http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/support/games/detail/item97821/Support-for-online-game-features/

theres also a list of game that can no longer be played online



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Damn, that was fast! Kind of low, too. Ah well.



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14 has brutal lag and unplayable leagues. Not that 13 was much better. Pretty crappy to shut them down when 14 is so broken. It would be like EA taking all Battlefields offline to force people to buy BF4.



Not very "pro gamer" of Sony imo.



About time. It's been 2014 for quite a while now.



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Expected. Didn't Nintendo end everything on the Wii already, why can't Sony do the same?



Well, it's announced 3 months in advance, very fair. Baseball season will be over, and I doubt many people will be left online to play a 2 year old game.
We can expect a big price cut for MLB 14 at that same time to encourage people to move on.



What I dont get is it really that much of a financial burdon for these companies to keep the servers up. These companies are getting more and more servers for the sake of a lot of things and they can probably keep all these games online features on a handful of servers due to the already low player count. I feel the energy cost to keep these servers up is a drop in the bucket for them.



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CDiablo said:
What I dont get is it really that much of a financial burdon for these companies to keep the servers up. These companies are getting more and more servers for the sake of a lot of things and they can probably keep all these games online features on a handful of servers due to the already low player count. I feel the energy cost to keep these servers up is a drop in the bucket for them.

Is it expensive in the realm of things? No, compared to the whole gaming division, it is probably nil. But when you add them all up, one has to question if it is even worth spending a minimal amount of money to maintain the servers for so few people.

I've never thought baseball worked well online anyways. It has always been plagued with lag unless both people have virtually perfect connections (I've had a similar experience with other games where precise timing is key, such as Mortal Kombat)



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bubblegamer said:
Expected. Didn't Nintendo end everything on the Wii already, why can't Sony do the same?

Nintendo had no choice.  They used Gamespy as their online service provider for Wii and DS.  Gamespy shut down a few months ago.  A lot of PS2, PS3, X360, PSP and PC titles were also affected.

 

 



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