Seems like there’s going to be a point where people are noticing the games they spent money on don’t work as they should anymore because the servers get shut down.

How would you feel if most of the multiplayer games you spent money on suddenly stopped being multiplayer because the business decided it’s not worthwhile for them to keep the servers running?

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Can confirm, I remember when Madden introduced online multiplayer, and there was a small kerfuffle because there was no way to bypass their servers. I remember having the conversation with my buddies that it didn’t matter, because we would all prefer to play together on the couch in the same room, and playing strangers on the internet didn’t sound appealing.

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Yeah, I’ve never played Madden online. That’s very much a couch game to me still. Not that I’ve played it much in years. I picked up my first copy in over a decade a couple years ago when it was on sale at the end of the season.

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