Epic Games : Decom of services

[Apex]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealtourn...ames_shutdown/

[cheesemp]

I've no issue with games losing services once they are a few years old (this is especially true for games with a newer release like COD for example where a current release plus last being supported is probably fair - someone needs to pay after all.). What really upsets me is when the single player no longer works once the servers shutdown. Microsoft seem to have the right idea here with Forza Horizons. They keep adding new races/cars for the current release and previous. Boot up FH3 now FH5 is out and no new races/cars but everything still works. They've even set up a never ending challenge to replace the weekly challenge. It should be a requirement for publishers to ensure the game has a wind down route - be it a minimal server just to make the game work, making the server software freely available for 3rd parties or patching the game to work entirely offline. Dead single player games after 3 or 4 years is a joke. Running a service like GoG is going to be nightmare with some recent titles.