Epic Shutting Down Online Services For Several Unreal Tournament And Rock Band Titles, Among Others
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In a weblog submit, Epic has introduced that it’s shutting down the servers and on-line providers for a lot of of its older titles starting right now. The reason being that the corporate needs to, in its personal phrases, “transfer to solely help Epic On-line Providers with its unified pals system, voice chat options, parental controls, and parental verification options.”
Epic states that by January 24, the next titles not be playable on-line (albeit with some caveats, that are famous). Epic has additionally began eradicating these titles from digital storefronts and can disable DLC purchases. Most of those video games can nonetheless be performed offline if you happen to personal them. The record of affected video games are:
- 1000 Tiny Claws
- Dance Central 1-3 (Dance Central VR on-line multiplayer will stay accessible)
- Inexperienced Day: Rock Band
- Monsters (In all probability) Stole My Princess
- Rock Band 1-3 (Rock Band 4 on-line multiplayer will stay accessible)
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Vehicles
- Unreal Gold
- Unreal II: The Awakening
- Unreal Event 2003
- Unreal Event 2004
- Unreal Event 3 (Epic plans to carry again on-line options by way of Epic On-line Providers sooner or later.)
- Unreal Event: Recreation of the Yr Version
Video games with offline modes will nonetheless be playable, after all, however titles which might be constructed solely round multiplayer will successfully be useless. One instance is the free-to-play Battle Breakers will develop into completely unplayable on December 30. Epic will refund in-game purchases that had been made in Battle Breakers 180 days previous to right now.
Moreover, the writer has already eliminated the Mac and Linux variations of Hatoful Boyfriend and Hatoful Boyfriend: Vacation Star from shops, in addition to the cellular model of DropMix. House owners will nonetheless have the ability to entry these titles, although. Unreal Event (Alpha), Rock Band Blitz, the Rock Band Companion app and SingSpace can even stop operations on January 24.
A number of of those video games are over a decade outdated, so it is not stunning to see Epic pulling the plug on their on-line servers, particularly if the communities aren’t very lively. Nonetheless, it additionally stinks to see this occur from a preservationist standpoint. Will you be logging on-line to play Unreal Event 2004 or The Beatles: Rock Band with pals earlier than January 24? Tell us within the feedback!
