Many of us only view a game's release in passing, and view it as an "event". Groundhog Smasher came out, it failed, and we don't hear of it again. Additionally, many of us associate "online" games with being "live service" - expecting the developers to announce a new skin, battle pass, game mechanic, or character every other week.

But some online games are just purely enjoyable, or get enough unremarkable patches, or sometimes don't even need a high playercount, to be enjoyed for years after the developers stopped emitting news.

This subject also gets confusing with cross-play games; even if one game has hardly anyone in its Steam playercount, sometimes between Playstation and Xbox there's just enough left to garner a following.

Which games do you play, or know about, that most people would've thought to be completely closed down, or at least had totally forgotten about?

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I haven't played in a number of years, but I'm pretty sure fan-made servers are still running for Phantasy Star Online.

I was playing the GameCube version online well over a decade after that console was dead. Blue Burst on PC is well supported too, I believe.

Crazy now to imagine a console game letting you input a DNS server and IP address for online play. But it did.