this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
110 points (98.2% liked)

Games

38452 readers
1505 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
110
Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Seems like there's going to be a point where people are noticing the games they spent money on don't work as they should anymore because the servers get shut down.

How would you feel if most of the multiplayer games you spent money on suddenly stopped being multiplayer because the business decided it's not worthwhile for them to keep the servers running?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thought that was just stat quo since call of duty or madden started pumping out annual games. I never checked but I assume I can't boot up Madden 2011 and still find servers to play on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Which is a shame.

I'll always be able to play World at War multiplayer because it supports LAN and player-hosted servers.

I don't know if the newer ones support LAN or hosting our own servers, but if they don't then it would mean we're essentially renting access to the game's multiplayer features.

It really means we're going backwards just to make businesses richer than us even richer at our expense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've been putting out annual releases for a long time, and Call of Duty used to still have LAN. It doesn't look like Madden ever had LAN, from a quick search of the old covers, which would list the features the game supported, but it was pretty common even in console games back then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can confirm, I remember when Madden introduced online multiplayer, and there was a small kerfuffle because there was no way to bypass their servers. I remember having the conversation with my buddies that it didn't matter, because we would all prefer to play together on the couch in the same room, and playing strangers on the internet didn't sound appealing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I’ve never played Madden online. That’s very much a couch game to me still. Not that I’ve played it much in years. I picked up my first copy in over a decade a couple years ago when it was on sale at the end of the season.