style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">Here's where I think I land on this: MMO makers fifa 15 ultimate team coins don't need to support their games forever, nor do they have a responsibility to do so. Game companies are businesses, and if a title becomes unprofitable, it's entirely within the company's right to nix it unless you plan to pay developers and support staff with the warm feelings of the community. That being said, MMO makers should absolutely provide closure to their players through some sort of community event that marks the occasion. It doesn't have to be big, fancy, or expensive, but it does need to say, "Hey, players, thanks so much for sharing this time with us. We appreciate it. "

The simple fact is that these games can't live without players, and those players deserve some thanks when it's time for the game to shuffle off its digital coil. The Think Tank What's your solution to save closing MMOsI don't think there's a good answer to this question. I think that protests are the right answer, but not because they'll stop the game you love from closing. I think that protests show companies that players are devoted to a game, and keeping a game around that churns out a profit even if small helps avoid bad press. How many articles on Massively alone have been dedicated to the CoH shutdown? If you look at how much bad press that event created for NCsoft, it makes you think twice about closing down your game. Even if the #SaveCoH events didn't pan out, they let every publisher know what the gaming world thinks about destroying online communities.

I personally don't care whether people play an emulated version of a dead game. My only concern is that emulated software for a particular game might not be available, and even if it is, it puts the people running the game at serious legal liability. You might be able to play your favorite game, but you probably won't be able to recreate the community there without attracting an army of lawyers. It might be a dead game, but it's still someone else's intellectual property. Usually a game leaves the beta list because it launches. Glitch was an odd case anyway, having launched and then returned to beta. But unfortunately, the quirky sandbox MMO is not getting another shot at www.fifa14stores.co.uk launch.