![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sniper Elite, released in 2005, was among those games whose servers were shut down by Glu, even though there was still an active if small community playing the game. Most of these games are close to a decade old or older and naturally their online multiplayer communities have dwindled. Publisher Glu shutdown for a large number of older games this week, including the Neverwinter Nights series, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Flight Simulator X amongst others. When servers go offline, as they did unexpectedly this week for Rebellion’s Sniper Elite, whole games can just disappear. In some ways, though, video games are even more fragile in the modern age. Now when your console or PC blinks out, you can just retrieve your information via the Internet. It used to be that if your game disc was scratched or you jostled your cartridge too much and dislodged the battery storing your game save, you could totally wipe out your chance to complete the game. Cloud storage and digital distribution have seemingly made gaming less fragile in the modern age. ![]()
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