[game_preservation] When XBLA games shut down

[Andrew Armstrong]

They're very proprietary. There's a few more then them titles too, I 
can't remember specific ones but some article I read a few years ago 
detailed some closures.

Well, also, good luck getting the not-quite-latest sports games to work 
after a while too. EA etc. just shut off the old servers I think.

Tough to get anything sorted for it before they close, especially if 
it's done in only certain regions as MMO's and online games tend to be. 
If we only had lots of money to buy every game when it was released and 
get footage, experience information from it before the inevitable :)

Andrew

On 06/01/2010 15:23, Devin Monnens wrote:

> There's been a lot of hullaballoo about MMO's shutting down on the PC, 

> but console-based MMOs can also fail, the most recent casualty of 

> which is Chromehounds:

>

> http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/01/06/chromehounds-tossed-onto-the-scrap-heap.aspx

>

> A few other multiplayer online games like PSO, Metal Gear Online, and 

> Resident Evil: Outbreak all had online components. Due to the closed 

> nature of console gaming, it seems like it would be a lot harder to 

> preserve online console play, though there could certainly be some 

> hacks like Warp Pipe for Gamecube.

>

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