Comment on Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games!
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThere’s a few listed here:
delistedgames.com/extinct-list/
But the problem is usually much larger where a game requires you to login to play even the single player component but is unable to do so with entire services going down, such as gamespy or others, more on that here:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/DefunctOnlineVideoGames
The list grows ever larger and even some online game news publications have their own lists, small example below:
kotaku.com/dead-games-2023-delisted-servers-offli…
There’s quite a few others, but I do agree with the point that there should be an aggregate for all of these, that could be presented as a universal list that hopefully stops growing in the coming years.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Thanks for the lists! Delistedgames seems to focus more on games that aren’t sold anymore rather than shutdown. For example, they list Grand Theft Auto IV as a delisted game because they only sell Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition now.
Weird that TVTropes seems to have a better list of games that not only aren’t sold anymore but don’t work even if you bought them. It’s an interesting list. I feel bad for all the people who played Family Guy Online for the 8 months it existed in 2012!
The Kotaku list is nice too but they do note that some of the games are still playable single player. It’s only the online multiplayer that’s not going to work since the servers are shutting down. I’m not sure how I feel about that one. Is it still killing a game if single player modes still work?