When I buy a game, and it has multiplayer on it, I am sure as hell gonna want to play that multiplayer (there are a few exceptions). But recently, I'm not going to shout out names, but companies have been shutting down their servers for multiplayer. I don't want to always drop $60 on a game if I am not so excited about. I sometimes like to wait for the price to drop. Or sometimes I don't hear about a game , but then I browse the internet and I find a game that looks cool and I buy it for $20 or less. I look to see on the internet and find out that the servers have been shut down.

Secondly, this is not much of a complaint to the community or players as much as it is me being dissapointed for myself, I look to try out a game that came out 2 years ago's multiplayer, to find that there aren't many people playing. I know this is something I can't control, but I wish that there would be people that would always be playing. I tried out Transformers WFC over the summer to see how it was (I heard some good things about the multiplayer) to find out that I could only find a full game every 20 minutes. And I was playing it only a year after it came out. I thought that more people would be playing it.

Thirdly, online passes. I do believe that we should support the developers by buying the game new, and this is one method of enforcing that. But, games that come out 2 years ago that have online passes, it could be hard to find a new copy at your local Gamestop. Over the summer, I heard about a game called Dark Sector. I went to Gamestop and I couldn't find a new copy of it, so I picked up a used copy. I don't believe it had an online pass but if it did, I would have no way of accessing the multiplayer unless I payed 10 extra dollars.

This rant is made to show my opinion on the topic and subtopics. I understand that I have no control over most of these things, but I am sharing what I think about them. Do you think that multiplayer gaming is becoming less accessable, or am I just an ungrateful gamer?