10 Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In March 2024

games as a service.....

After buying or putting money into game as service then never being able to play it again.

All digital is great thing, right? Nope. Granted example is a GaS. But take good look at not being able to access something after paying for it.

Physical media is the best and only way to go. This will not happen to you.

@GuyinPA75 if it's actually the full playable game on the physical disk/cartridge then yes it's definitely the best way to go. But in reality a ton of physical media is just wasted resources for something that you're going to have to download digitally anyways because it's not actually on the disk/cartridge.

I expect limited run physical copies will be a niche market for collectors and that's all. Not sure how you could stop that change from happening as the average consumer doesn't care about having a physical copy so neither do the publishers.

Love the Comments about games as a service by people who clearly just read the article name and not even the games losing their servers. Every time there's an article like this. Yes, my favorite live service game Dark Souls 2 on the 360.

@GuyinPA75 Physical or digital makes absolutely no difference in this situation. If you own a disc for The Crew it's going to be a frisbee or drink coaster when the service goes down.

@Krzzystuff To be fair, there are just as many games that have the full, playable games on disc now. There are whole websites dedicated to providing lists of these. And there are a lot.

@GuyinPA75 all but one of the games listed above (Rocket Arena) was released on disc.

Ah, all of these make sense because no one (or very very few) still play them. But seeing Dark Souls on there does make me a little nostalgic and sad. I love that game.
Lasting until 2024 though is pretty impressive. Goodbye Drangleic, I'll see you in my dreams.
( T _ T )

It's a shame they will not put out a patch to allow you to play some of these offline. The Crew is a good example, after all these years I still load it up just to cruise around.

@BleedingDreamer That exactly!They should be forced to patch the game to make it offline but the consumers are sheep these days and just accept anything that's being shoved down their throats unfortunately...

They all suck, doesn't affect me.

Let's play vanilla Dark Souls 2! I still have my 360

It's sad that they shut down the servers to The Crew. There is plenty of players still playing the game. I will play the game as long as I can

Most of these will be restored on PC versions where you have file access. Hopefully a version of Insignia is made for Xbox 360.

Down with this sort of thing!
Careful now!
They really should be regulated to ensure a minimum lifetime of the servers is stated when the game is purchased.
Servers will persist until 2030 at the earliest. That sort of thing. At least then you can gauge the value of your purchase.

thats why game as a service is a cancer of our industry its meant to be capitalize on a 5 to 10 year life cycles, i don't buy those game up to 10$ for me they are like going to cinema they are meant to be consume and move on! Which is terrible for players.

Screwed again just like the Wii. This proves once again how digital purchases can be bad. Guess I’ll have to browse the 360 store to double check any games I want to grab before the cut off. Any digital games I buy I wait till they’re super cheap but physical games is still king! I still jump in my car & go to GameStop 2 or 3 times a month (or Best Buy) to buy physical games. Now that Sony is seeing this I’m sure ps3 store is not far behind as they already tried once and took a lot of heat for it and backed off.