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We looked at over 700 games that have or used to have some sort of online requirement…

… First up are dead games, which means no one on Earth can currently play the game. It’s not possible…

…Next, we have at-risk games, which means these games are currently working, but they’re designed in such a way that the second the publisher ends support, they will become dead games without some sort of intervention…

… Next, we have dev preserved, which means the game would have died, but the publisher or developer implemented some sort of endof life plan, so now the game is safe…

… And finally, we have Fan Preserved, where the publisher did nothing or practically nothing to save the game, but fans managed to either hack it to remove dependencies or reverse engineer a server emulator so that the game was saved in spite of the publisher actions. It’s worth stating that almost every time this happens, it’s an incredible amount of work and it’s a small miracle it happens at all. So, here are the stats on all the games that we researched.