Multiple games from Epic will be losing online play soon

Epic today has announced that numerous games from its library of titles will be losing access to online play and features. That’s because it’ll be shutting down the servers and turning off services for those games. The good news for fans of Epic’s games is that this is really just for its older titles. Games that likely have had a massive decrease in player count over the years because of the fact that they’re older. This includes games like Rock Band 1 -3, Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament 3 and more.

Epic says that it’s making this change because it’s going to be focusing on support for Epic Online Services with its unified friends system. All of the games losing online play don’t use this system. And Epic finds it easier to simply shut the services down for these games than support different systems. And that makes sense. This shift means less work and it can start to have one system for all its titles.

Epic won’t be shutting off online services until January 24. So there’s still time to enjoy the online services until then. However, Epic has already started delisting some games from storefronts and in-game DLC purchases can no longer be made as of today.

Most games, Epic says, will still be playable offline after online shuts down

Although online play and services is shutting down for these titles, Epic says that most of them will still be playable offline. So you can play solo or with local co-op if the game supports it. Rock Band for instance, will still be playable offline and it does support local co-op. Which means you can still jam out with your friends if you still play the game. They just have to be in the same room as you now.

The full list of games losing online play are as follows. 1000 Tiny Claws, Dance Central 1-3, Green Day: Rock Band, Rock Band 1-3, The Beatles: Rock Band, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3, and Unreal Tournament: Game Of The Year Edition.

Epic says it’s also shutting down Battle Breakers on December 30. Some players will no doubt be disappointed by these changes Epic is making but, nothing lasts forever. And Epic is moving on.

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