Sony dropping online play for three PS3 games early next year

Well it's been weeks since MAG died, The PS3 has been given away and my 4000 hours in the game a distant memory. The strange thing is when I look at YouTube vids of MAG I feel home sick ! If you , like me loved this game then you know how I feel. For years many said the game had died but you could usually get over 500 players on, even in the last months of the game after the end had been announced. There is no replacement for MAG .. COD ? A paintball game .. BattleField ? Just don't feel as good. So I'm now looking for a new consul to play but won't until something close to a MAG2 arrives ... Maybe nothing like it will be seen again.. Do the developers really want people buying games that will last them 4 years possibly more. No they want COD 1 then 2 then 3 add tedium . Might take up fishing. But to all you ex Sver, Raven & Valour ..... I salute you

Nowwill you neverhaveserversfor this game.Does this meanthat you shouldthrowthe game???somesay.

Well, to be fair, MAG (teh halo killur) sucks, and Socom is for guys stuck in 2002. But lets all thank Sony for those dedicated servers you all brag about. I knew this day would come when they're done paying the bill for those servers and you're left with dead games.

Behold, the bright future of always online gaming !

thanks alot SONY... i still play confrontation since its the only closes SOCOM we got since you **** heads cant give us a real socom like 1 and 2. eat shit and kill ur selfs

3 games getting online support dropped for the THIRD playstation.
I think we all know what this means: Half Life 3 confirmed!

whats a play station first person shooter that has a lot of online gamers, aside from cod and battlefield of coarse?

Yikes, they're not wasting any time, are they? Think you could slow down there a little, Sony?

I mean okay, they're not exactly new games, and the developer of 2 of the 3 games doesn't exist anymore... But those are also the games without an offline mode. It's too bad that it seems the fans won't be able to play anymore or be given the tools to do so. :-\

I will say this, though: if you buy a game that only has multiplayer, you'll run into this problem eventually. But I wouldn't expect it to be so soon!

meh

As much as I enjoyed MAG, there's definately not enough people playing it now to keep it going, hell if someone bought the game today and loaded it up, they'd be pissed off by how long it takes to get into some of the larger maps, even the smaller maps are taking longer than it's worth.

Everyone saying everything should have an offline mode, I'd just like to ask why? why take resources away from the game that was designed to be a fun multiplayer, it's just as bad as tacking multiplayer on to a single player game.

They should release the server software so gamers can run their own servers and keep these games going. But of course this will not happen because companies do not want gamers to play old games. They want to force gamers to buy and play the new stuff. This is one of the tactics they use to push people into spending more money on things instead of just playing the stuff they already have.

Thousands of gamers still play the old titles like Doom, Quake, Ghost Recon, etc. because they can set up and administrate the multiplayer servers on their own. All games should allow this capabilty imo. Give gamers the control over their own games. Let us run and create our own servers to play with our friends.

So, Sony is trying to go the way of the Xbone, and make people not want to buy their next console. I was all set to switch from Xbox 360 to PS4, but if Sony is just going to randomly turn off games, I guess I'll just skip the "next gen".

Aaaaaaaaaaand this is why always online sucks.

Why the hell are they doing this to a game with no single player? That's just destroying our products.

I personally really like MAG. Someone should make a petition for this.

Dear Sony,

Please implement patches for these games that allow players to setup their own servers. This way, the fans of the games can continue to play using their own servers.

In fact...

Dear Game Developers/Publishers

Every online game that you distribute should have an end-of-life plan that includes a patch that opens the game to run on community-ran servers.

Gamer's pay for and invest much of their lives into these games. Some people will keep the games alive for years after EOL and it gives a way for people of the future to remember and experience games from these generations of consoles.

This is why online only games are a terrible idea. Now there's going to be millions (or a couple hundred thousands, whatever) of copies of these games lying around that have absolutely no function. I guess they'll look nice sitting on a shelf, but that's about it.

I can't believe people are fine with this...paying 60 bucks for a game and then having sony decide when you have to stop playing.

If i wanted to just rent a game i'd go to blockbuster and pay 5 bucks.

Just because YOU don't play a particular game anymore doesn't mean it's worthless and obsolete. There's still probably countless tens of thousands of people who still play and would like to keep playing a game they bought

If only MAG had a mode where you can just play against the AI offline.

Do a good amount of people still play MAG?

I loved MAG. Over 300 hrs on that game and played it over a year. They better make a sequel.

This is one of the advantages of P2P and Xbox Live this gen. MP support for older games, if you have a good connection that is. IMO P2P as a backup should be standard in gaming. No reason why both can't live side by side, on every platform.

calm the hell down guys, if you still have mag then you probably played it enough, OR covered in dust. it's been worthless for the past...2 years. it's like complaining your item is now worth less than it did a year ago.

bigger games? not worried. you don't see any of the cod's down yet

Oh no! Oh no? Oh no. Oooh no. Oh no... Oh... No... oh no. DON'T CARE!

Sony proves again that it sucks!!

This is why xbox live was way better this past gen, I think I'll go and play some CoD 2 multiplayer, or perhaps Perfect Dark Zero, and after that I'll play metal gear online... oh wait

Sad news for MAG fans. I used to play it all the time. I haven't played it for a few weeks now because I play games in cycles. I thought it was a fantastic game and wished there had been more expansions and a sequel. I thought it was waaayyyy better than COD. My favorites are Battlefield 2142, still waiting on sequel for that, MAG, Bad Company2, Battlefield3, Brink, Killzone. Wish MAG had a single player. Guess I'd better go back to playing it while I can.

I am glad I only played the betas then. I knew Sony would have screwed me.