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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten multiplayer games killed by their
developers before we begin we publish
new videos every day so be sure to
subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re ranking multiplayer
games that are infamous for their
servers being shut down or
irreconcilably altered by their
developers games that you can still play
online but are not receiving updates
like Tribes Ascend will be excluded
number ten tabula rasa Richard Garriott
who popularized the MMORPG genre with
Ultima Online was the lead designer for
this sci-fi adventure in 2007 and the
game guarded some great press prior to
its launch probably because of it
despite decent ratings for its solid
gameplay and flashes of creativity this
MMORPG didn’t set the world on fire or
still is that publisher NCsoft
allegedly forced Garriott out of their
company while he was being quarantined
after returning from space only weeks
after this incident developer
destination games slated for shutdown on
February 28 2009 with the game coming to
an end destination made the game free to
play
they also rewarded loyal players with
one final stand against the alien
alliance the bane before the game became
a blank slate number 9 halo wars go
already seen as the underdog for being a
rare RTS on a console halo wars also had
to contend with criticism of using a
different developer yet the game found
its fanbase anyway due to the simplified
RTS controls and the continuation of the
halo lore told through pretty cutscenes
it wasn’t even a year later that
Microsoft decided to close the website
Halo Wars comp on December 15 2010 the
plan was to use Halo Waypoint as a
universal hub for all Halo games this
decision though came at the cost of lost
user accounts statistics ranked match
records and forums
which were not maintained or replaced
despite the in-game service being online
Halo Wars just wasn’t the same
afterwards and it’s pretty dead now
occupation upgrade complete number 8 the
matrix online just as icons in the
gaming world can’t save games from their
fate film series rarely do any better
launched in 2005 this MMO was the
canonical sequel to The Matrix film
trilogy though the second and third
films were some of the most divisive
dozens in month but whatever for what it
was the matrix online gave players the
experience they kind of expected when
they swallowed the red pill and more
offering a real-time hand-to-hand combat
system bullet time and an ongoing plot
the game did try its darndest to be the
one after four years of relative
mediocrity and waning interest in the
entire franchise Sony Online
Entertainment pulled the plug on July
31st 2009 number 7 Warhammer Online
age of reckoning
based on the tabletop gaming franchise
created by Games Workshop Warhammer
Online age reckoning did pretty well in
the cutthroat MMORPG market well at
first developed by mythic entertainment
and released in 2008 age reckoning sold
over 1.2 million copies received stellar
reviews and won a few awards too that
said there were a few issues with its
game play pvp and quests being the
primary focus these issues in parts
caused a loss of 300,000 players as the
game limped along it became free-to-play
and offered new battles for players but
it wasn’t until mythix licensing
agreement with Games Workshop expired
that the game was shut down on December
18 2013 with many remaining players
gathered together in solidarity man they
love to do this stuff right before
Christmas a number six PlayStation Home
[Music]
PlayStation Home was an online world
within the PlayStation 3 acting mostly
as a way station before getting started
with an actual video game calm amassed
41 million members during its seven-year
run similar to Second Life players could
create avatars that would interact with
other avatars and places in homes
virtual hub and they could make an
in-game purchase using real world’s
money as relatively novel as the idea
was Sully never got pshome past the beta
stage with Sony focusing more on the ps4
players said their final goodbyes to
their home away from home on March 31st
2015
number 5 City of Heroes not even the
likes of Darkseid or Santos can cut down
so many heroes at once the way NCsoft
has the publisher dealt quite a blow to
this creative superhero themed MMO and
it’s spin-off city of villains due to
budget cuts NCsoft let go of the team
working on the game and closed developer
Paragon Studios doors but the thing is
the game was actually doing quite well
as it was highly praised by critics and
had amassed a large fan following making
the decision to shut the game down kind
of questionable
still on November 30th 2012 City of
Heroes went out with a massive influx of
heroes waiting for the end at City Hall
number four Star Wars Galaxies the force
was not quite strong enough with this
one with an MMORPG as expansive as you’d
expect it to be with galaxy in the title
Star Wars Galaxies had comprehensive
gameplay and the backing of the Star
Wars universe lore for all its critical
acclaim however the game suffered from
bugs and not every detail worked as
players would have liked developer Sony
Online Entertainment’s fixed a couple of
these issues but also ended up altering
a lot of the things that players kind of
like to pub the game cutting their
losses as EA and Bioware’s the Star Wars
The Old Republic was a week away
galaxies became one with the force on
December 15 2011
number three all we and DS online games
may 20th 2014 millions and Nintendo fans
have that date edged in their minds on
that day
Nintendo discontinued their Wi-Fi
connection service for all we knew Tendo
vs online games
sadly moving on to the next generation
of consoles always has its casualties
and with the Wii and DS family
discontinued Nintendo merged the service
with a Nintendo network we understand
that they need the bandwidth for games
on the Wii U Nintendo 3ds family and
more originally the Nintendo switch but
after so many hours of playing Super
Smash Brothers Brawl this one definitely
stung number 2 The Sims Online
in theory it seemed like a genius idea
to make Max’s and EA’s life simulator
into a massively multiplayer online game
sure enough they gained a good amount of
players for the service but it also
gained mixed reviews regarding its
gameplay with the release of Second Life
in 2003 EA and Maxis were starting to
feel the pinch unable to keep up with
second lifes customized content the sims
online was actually rebranded to EA land
in 2008 shortly after its rebranding the
MMO formerly known as The Sims Online
was shut down on August 1st of that year
number 1 halo 2 in a similar situation
that Nintendo had with their Wi-Fi
connection service Microsoft announced
the shutdown of Xbox Live for all of the
original Xbox games on April 15 2010 out
of all the titles attached it was halo 2
the most popular game on the platform
whose shutdown was the most notorious
[Music]
diehard halo players were determined to
enjoy the game as long as they could
with 51 loyal fans prolonging their
final match for weeks refusing to give
in and turn off their consoles
eventually Microsoft had enough and they
bribed and kicked out the players until
the last man stood on may 11th 2010 for
anyone who has lost a multiplayer game
that they loved this last stand was
considered a small symbolic victory
James do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten multiplayer games killed by their
developers before we begin we publish
new videos every day so be sure to
subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re ranking multiplayer
games that are infamous for their
servers being shut down or
irreconcilably altered by their
developers games that you can still play
online but are not receiving updates
like Tribes Ascend will be excluded
number ten tabula rasa Richard Garriott
who popularized the MMORPG genre with
Ultima Online was the lead designer for
this sci-fi adventure in 2007 and the
game guarded some great press prior to
its launch probably because of it
despite decent ratings for its solid
gameplay and flashes of creativity this
MMORPG didn’t set the world on fire or
still is that publisher NCsoft
allegedly forced Garriott out of their
company while he was being quarantined
after returning from space only weeks
after this incident developer
destination games slated for shutdown on
February 28 2009 with the game coming to
an end destination made the game free to
play
they also rewarded loyal players with
one final stand against the alien
alliance the bane before the game became
a blank slate number 9 halo wars go
already seen as the underdog for being a
rare RTS on a console halo wars also had
to contend with criticism of using a
different developer yet the game found
its fanbase anyway due to the simplified
RTS controls and the continuation of the
halo lore told through pretty cutscenes
it wasn’t even a year later that
Microsoft decided to close the website
Halo Wars comp on December 15 2010 the
plan was to use Halo Waypoint as a
universal hub for all Halo games this
decision though came at the cost of lost
user accounts statistics ranked match
records and forums
which were not maintained or replaced
despite the in-game service being online
Halo Wars just wasn’t the same
afterwards and it’s pretty dead now
occupation upgrade complete number 8 the
matrix online just as icons in the
gaming world can’t save games from their
fate film series rarely do any better
launched in 2005 this MMO was the
canonical sequel to The Matrix film
trilogy though the second and third
films were some of the most divisive
dozens in month but whatever for what it
was the matrix online gave players the
experience they kind of expected when
they swallowed the red pill and more
offering a real-time hand-to-hand combat
system bullet time and an ongoing plot
the game did try its darndest to be the
one after four years of relative
mediocrity and waning interest in the
entire franchise Sony Online
Entertainment pulled the plug on July
31st 2009 number 7 Warhammer Online
age of reckoning
based on the tabletop gaming franchise
created by Games Workshop Warhammer
Online age reckoning did pretty well in
the cutthroat MMORPG market well at
first developed by mythic entertainment
and released in 2008 age reckoning sold
over 1.2 million copies received stellar
reviews and won a few awards too that
said there were a few issues with its
game play pvp and quests being the
primary focus these issues in parts
caused a loss of 300,000 players as the
game limped along it became free-to-play
and offered new battles for players but
it wasn’t until mythix licensing
agreement with Games Workshop expired
that the game was shut down on December
18 2013 with many remaining players
gathered together in solidarity man they
love to do this stuff right before
Christmas a number six PlayStation Home
[Music]
PlayStation Home was an online world
within the PlayStation 3 acting mostly
as a way station before getting started
with an actual video game calm amassed
41 million members during its seven-year
run similar to Second Life players could
create avatars that would interact with
other avatars and places in homes
virtual hub and they could make an
in-game purchase using real world’s
money as relatively novel as the idea
was Sully never got pshome past the beta
stage with Sony focusing more on the ps4
players said their final goodbyes to
their home away from home on March 31st
2015
number 5 City of Heroes not even the
likes of Darkseid or Santos can cut down
so many heroes at once the way NCsoft
has the publisher dealt quite a blow to
this creative superhero themed MMO and
it’s spin-off city of villains due to
budget cuts NCsoft let go of the team
working on the game and closed developer
Paragon Studios doors but the thing is
the game was actually doing quite well
as it was highly praised by critics and
had amassed a large fan following making
the decision to shut the game down kind
of questionable
still on November 30th 2012 City of
Heroes went out with a massive influx of
heroes waiting for the end at City Hall
number four Star Wars Galaxies the force
was not quite strong enough with this
one with an MMORPG as expansive as you’d
expect it to be with galaxy in the title
Star Wars Galaxies had comprehensive
gameplay and the backing of the Star
Wars universe lore for all its critical
acclaim however the game suffered from
bugs and not every detail worked as
players would have liked developer Sony
Online Entertainment’s fixed a couple of
these issues but also ended up altering
a lot of the things that players kind of
like to pub the game cutting their
losses as EA and Bioware’s the Star Wars
The Old Republic was a week away
galaxies became one with the force on
December 15 2011
number three all we and DS online games
may 20th 2014 millions and Nintendo fans
have that date edged in their minds on
that day
Nintendo discontinued their Wi-Fi
connection service for all we knew Tendo
vs online games
sadly moving on to the next generation
of consoles always has its casualties
and with the Wii and DS family
discontinued Nintendo merged the service
with a Nintendo network we understand
that they need the bandwidth for games
on the Wii U Nintendo 3ds family and
more originally the Nintendo switch but
after so many hours of playing Super
Smash Brothers Brawl this one definitely
stung number 2 The Sims Online
in theory it seemed like a genius idea
to make Max’s and EA’s life simulator
into a massively multiplayer online game
sure enough they gained a good amount of
players for the service but it also
gained mixed reviews regarding its
gameplay with the release of Second Life
in 2003 EA and Maxis were starting to
feel the pinch unable to keep up with
second lifes customized content the sims
online was actually rebranded to EA land
in 2008 shortly after its rebranding the
MMO formerly known as The Sims Online
was shut down on August 1st of that year
number 1 halo 2 in a similar situation
that Nintendo had with their Wi-Fi
connection service Microsoft announced
the shutdown of Xbox Live for all of the
original Xbox games on April 15 2010 out
of all the titles attached it was halo 2
the most popular game on the platform
whose shutdown was the most notorious
[Music]
diehard halo players were determined to
enjoy the game as long as they could
with 51 loyal fans prolonging their
final match for weeks refusing to give
in and turn off their consoles
eventually Microsoft had enough and they
bribed and kicked out the players until
the last man stood on may 11th 2010 for
anyone who has lost a multiplayer game
that they loved this last stand was
considered a small symbolic victory
James do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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