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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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 3 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Battlefield 2 (and 2142 I think?) still have people playing the multiplayer. I ought to check it out one day

[–] AGD4@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Where and how?? I thought EA and Gamespy shutdown the server trackers and shutdown the community server tracker.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can't attest to how well this works but I've seen yt videos recommending videos of people running BF2 once in awhile

[–] AGD4@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

That is bloody awesome, thanks! I've probably got close to 1500 hours in the game across a few accounts. I definitely need to fire up BF2 again.