Sony killing the online for several titles in 2014

The always online fuchur.

GT5 owners are getting gipped hard and it looks like Sony is throwing Resistance under the bus.

Stopping Gran Turismo's 5 servers is just a cheap way to get people to buy Gran Turismo 6

Shame on you Sony

wow...trying to save every penny i see.

WOAH These are some pretty big games that are getting shut down aren't they? People made a big deal out of it when MS shut down the online play for the original Xbox. People were complaining about the old Halo games being shut down. Can't believe some of these games being shut down. Motorstorm, GRID, MAG, Resistance, GT5. Is White Knight Chronicles a big deal? Isn't it too soon?

Previously decommissioned titles:

PlayStation 3

The Eye of Judgment

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

MotorStorm

MotorStorm Pacific Rift

Race Driver: GRID

The Lord of The Rings: Conquest

White Knight Chronicles

White Knight Chronicles II

As of 28 January 2014:

MAG

As of 28 March 2014

Resistance: Fall of Man

Resistance 2

Resistance 3

As of 20 May 2014

Gran Turismo 5

Sony is not throwing Resistance under the bus. Insomniac already put and end to the franchise, and they dont work with SONY anymore either.

COuldn't care less about any of those games. Most of them probably have dead online communities anyway. It would just be a waste of money keeping them running. Is a wise decision from Sony. As for White Knight Chronicles 1 & 2, that game was the biggest pile of shit JRPG I've played in a long while. I'd play FFXIII over that shit.

lol console gaming sucks they wont even support their games one year after a new consoles

We want online games shutdowns as well!

Just don't kill Starhawk/Warhawk and we're good

So does perfect dark zero on 360, an old as hell game with barely anyone playing today online. Yet if you and your friend for some strange reason want to play online you can. Halo 3, GoW1, 7 years and still up and running.

Why MS still keeps the games running but Sony doesn't? MS did kill original xbox games too soon but looks like they're not repeating the same mistake with 360.

what was that Heil said about "by gamers for gamers"? Yeah where's your God now?

Online for PS3 was free, makesa business sense to screw customers over by closing the free portion so they ahve to buy games that use PS+ so they can get da monies from you. after all, going cheap ont he components for the DS4 controller didn't seem to save them enough cash, so this is step two of "operation: get the gamers to bail sony out of debt"

GT5 getting the whack this early? Weak sauce.

Yeah i'm really surprised they're doing it so soon. Surely a game that has sold as much as GT5 must have a pretty big online community.

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Proof there is only a handful of lems left here. If it was the other way around, the cows would have torn the lems a new ass. As it is they find the slightest in negative articles and it's go time for them.

I completely understand shutting down single player focused games, but seriously, how can you shut down online only games like MAG?

That seems wrong.

Sony's on a tight budget.

What does the community size look like? It sucks, but if the palyer base doesn't justify the cost of keeping the servers up, it's a smart move.

@MonsieurX: some good Xmas jelly.

I have no problem with the list with the exception of GT5. I thought a lot of people still played that, I guess they are really trying to drive up GT6 sales.

This is why you don't buy games for online multiplayer.

Closing the GT5 servers is lame.. way to "force" your fans to buy your latest game..

Others are old as ****, so good riddance

Don't worry I'm sure the community will keep the games alive.

They will rent new servers and perhaps even add mods!!!

Oh wait, this is console gaming we're talking about, what a shame. Keep paying your $50 yearly to Sony, after all, the guys disconnecting the servers must get paid too.

Lolz @ Sony,

Some of these games are still sold in some shops new .

Please,kill my online games!

I'd love that

MAG is going to officially die, Good times.... rest in peace but i hope in the future a sequel is made.

You can still play the bots i believe.

Jelly? :)

Shutting down GT5 is shady as hell. Halo 2, for instance, lived for a further 3 years after the release of Halo 3.

This is why I rarely game online. I just can't stand the thought of investing so much of my time into something to have it erased and not being able to play it again in the future.

Screw online and DD. I would like to own and play my games. Single player rules.

Agree with many who say its somehow MS fault LOL. I don't see what's hard to understand. This company is in massive debt. You tighten up at these times.

lol console onlnie

"But but Sony always supports their community..."

Poor cows. Getting ripped off by Sony...

Have fun buying GT6... (hahaha)

That's the problem with console online multiplayer. They will always be removed. Sorry to say this but PC multiplayer is always the best. You have PC games from over 10 years ago and they still get online support. Not being a fanboy or anything but that's the truth.

I have played Motorstorm online for a couple weeks and this was many months after the game had launched. There were a bunch of people stil playing at that time. I wanted to play the sequel online though.

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Seems Sony is trying to save every penny. Hope they don't plan on selling more HQ buildings in 2014.

This goes along with their delusional fans saying stupid things like 'for the gamer by the gamer'. So much for that.

Having no money has consequences. Waiting for studios to start to close.

I don't see why they bother to shut down servers... I mean how much does it cost to keep a game server running. If nobody plays the games anymore then put all those games on a shared server in virtual machines if they have to. There is no reason to ever shut down servers for anything. It's not like bandwidth costs much, and even if it did you can only play one online game at a time anyway.

Not sure if dumb or poorly trolling

So jelly.

So dumb and poorly trolling

So reported

So screen captured for the lulz. :)

Yes,your comments are quite lulzy

Jelly confirmed. :)