This is even with the servers having been officially shut down for the past year. ResetEra user Nerdkiller shared in a thread on the gaming forum. In his post, he shares that there now exists a workaround for players to play certain classic PlayStation games online. The company states the following on its website. Being available since the PS is a pretty old game console.
Despite its age, there are still people wanting to play online. Some just love to get reminded of old times, some want to enjoy games that simply have no equivalent counterpart on more modern consoles. Sony decided to stop hosting any game servers, which rendered some games unusable or at least hard to use.
The idea of being able to play Socom again is exciting. Here is hoping PlayStation sees people clamoring for these games and decides to make new installments in the franchises. A fan can only hope. A Sony spokesperson told Ars that "there isn't a means within the game to provide that notification," but they couldn't explain why that in-game Announcement page has apparently remained unused.
In the grand scheme of things, this might not seem like a huge scandal, even judged by the standards of the video game industry. As it stands, Sony is giving one month of notice for any remaining Warhawk players to say goodbye to the game after 11 long years of keeping the online community going. Squeezing out two more months on a legal technicality might not seem worthwhile. Indeed, the online version of Sony's license terms, which are referred to on the box, have been updated since the game was released to say that "Licensor makes no commitment to continue to make those servers available and may terminate online features at any time.
But none of that has stopped hundreds of players from signing a couple of online petitions essentially begging Sony to keep the servers up, if only for a little while longer. Lorenzo B. It is important to me to get what I paid for, and what I paid for is the Warhawk game that is now offline on the PlayStation network.
Even if you've never played Warhawk , though, you could argue there's a greater principle involved here. Sony and other game publishers expect their players to stick to end-user license agreements that they are forced to agree to whenever they play an online game. These companies often go to great lengths to enforce those agreements in order to control what players can do with the games they purchase. Now, faced with a situation in which it has to stick to its own shrink-wrapped promises from years ago, Sony apparently can't be bothered.
That might not be the end of the world, but it's more than a little galling, too. You must login or create an account to comment. The explosion is Warhawk players' hopes and dreams.
Further Reading Change that embarrassing PlayStation account name starting next year. IonizedCatfish wrote:. So apparently, if Sony's marketing material is to be believed, the game is actually hosted by racks of PS3s at least thats what I saw on Wikipedia. This is fairly unique and it enables a couple of really nice benefits.
And yes, you can play on your own server too…even in 4-way split screen. As Warhawk is an online-only title, this shutdown means that the game will no longer be playable unless the PS3 system is set to LAN mode, as only local network play will function.
Sources who have been briefed on the project suggest that the new PlayStation 3 consists of eight custom console units built into a single rack server Sony's engineers were able to mitigate both issues by shrinking the equivalent of eight PS3s onto a single motherboard, housed in a slimline server cabinet.
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