Gotham impostors was actually a really cool game I remember playing a long time ago and the grappling hook mechanic and improvised guns were so unique. RIP gotham impostors

Gotham City Impostors is probably the saddest loss of a game i've experienced. Honestly idk if it was that good or if I was just a stupid kid, but man getting on the 360 after school and loading it up was the shit. Was actually a pretty good hero/class based shooter. Maps were great and fun, art style and character design was goated. Perfect era for that game to exist, it would absolutely flop today.

Agents of Mayhem isn't a multiplayer game with 12 players, it's a solo game where you could choose between 12 characters and make a team composition of 3. The gunplay was fun but there wasn't anything really interesting going on in the campaign

blacklight retribution is a notable mention one of the first ftp fps games back in the day before free games were popular

Gotham City Imposters was actually a very fun game. Mechanics were solid, and the different characters made the game play very differently dependent on who you chose.

Jump Force doesn't really belong here since it has a physical release on consoles and you can still play online matches, the matchmaking and DLC was removed. They even made the achievements that required the matchmaking servers work once they were turn off. There was more thought put into this shutdown than most other games.

Man, I miss Defiance, both the show and the game. I enjoyed it because it was one of the precious few MMOs that encouraged co-op and if you wanted it, solo play, over PvP...although it had that, as well. It was nice being able to play the game and get stuff done without always worrying about whoever you run across trying to kill you. That game, while small, actually had one of the best communities for an MMO I had ever experienced.

Gotham city imposters was one of my favorite multiplayers of all time I stay asking for that game to comeback

I fondly remember MAG, which was released on PS3 in January 2010, between the two behemoths that were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. But man, this game was so ahead of its time. It had large battles that really worked (256 players in one game!), interesting game modes, skill trees, 8-people squads, different factions... And many people had mics in this game, that was a real blast. It definitely had network issues (like you could die a whole second behind cover) and balancing issues (SVER faction was clearly overpowered) but the game was maintained and updated. It's also a game that I worked hard to get the platinum trophy on. The game did have some updates but unfortunately the devs (Zipper Interactive) were closed down years later due to the failures of SOCOM 4 and Unit 13, a PS Vita launch game. MAG only lasted 4 years, being closed in 2014, but I still haven't found a true replacement for it. Obviously Battlefield came close, and Planetside 2 had similarities but I'm still remembering MAG as something unique.

I really loved Battleborn. Admittedly I got into it really late, getting a $5 used copy from GameStop as a Christmas gift in December of 2019, but I still played for several dozen hours. My favorite character was Ghalt, but I played a handful of other characters and played Beatrix a lot after I saved up enough points to unlock her. It's such a shame how mismanaged the IP was. If they'd simply made it playable offline, then there would still be people playing it to this day, including me. I'd probably have had a couple hundred hours in it by now. It was just such a great blend of hero shooter, looter shooter, MOBA, and horde mode and had a lot of potential. It even had splitscreen and fully-functional bots, too. The bots weren't half bad, either. My friends always preferred Overwatch, which I tried a few times and considered being a few times, but I at least got one of my friends to download it and play with me, and we had a pretty good time. Anyway, that's just my two cents.

Hyperscape had mad potential, but Ubisoft just didn't change what needed to be changed, it was a really fun movement based BR and I think what killed it was how long the fights lasted. For how fast paced the game was the time to kill was abysmal, it took so many bullets to kill which kind of took away from the fast paced aspect.

Knockout city was genuinely an amazing game and 100% the paywall is what murdered the player count. The gameplay was so fun and unique compared to anything else I played In a while, I only stopped BECAUSE the player count got low and it got really hard to find a match.

I think Gotham City Imposters is still playable in some capacity. Like if you host the servers locally? If anyone wants to play, I have a steam group where we play dead games together occasionally. My groups kinda dead (ironically), so maybe a game like GCI and a local hosting could help bring both things back to life? If anyone wants to join up, let me know.

I really enjoyed Gotham City Imposters. I recently just started using my 360 again and noticed it. Pity the game has been lost to time, I would have jumped back into it. Same with Battleborn, I really enjoyed it.

The failure that is the current state of Warzone is soul crushing

Defiance was a game that was fun when I was younger. But when I got a job I wanted to get back into the game to buy cosmetics I wanted... Then I found out it shut down. In the middle of downloading it, saw it had really low stars, and I went to check.. Game shut down literally a few weeks before I started to download it.. The game had so much potential. The show too..i hope we see something like it again, there's so little mmo's with guns.

This guy didn’t do a lick of research for Agents of Mayhem

I SWEAR TO GOD one of the creators of CROSSFIRE X was on my Fireteam during a session of Halo: Infinite because this one teammate was LAYING IT ON THICK with how great the game was he even tried poaching another teammate of ours to quit the MATCH WE WERE STILL IN and start playing Crossfire X, I was generally PISSED I told the other player "ERRR, I wouldn't cause I've heard NOTHING but terrible things about that game".

I only played one match of Ghost Recon: Phantoms around mid-2016. I was thinking to myself, "I should play more matches," but I never did. It wasn't until a few years ago when I found out the servers were shut down.

i really miss gotham city impostors. it was one of the few FPS games that ran well enough on my garbage laptop back almost 10 years ago. I spent a lot of time in that game. It should get a reboot/relaunch

I freaking loved Gotham City Imposters, I tried playing it on Steam at some point this year and it wasn't really going all that well

Major nostalgia trip. Getting gold katana in Gotham imposters was probably my proudest gaming moment. 3 sword kills in a few seconds is hard in a game like this. The trailer for this game was insane. And the classes were wild. Middleweight cloak ninja, rollerblades shotgun girl and grappling hook skinny sniper were goated classes if yk, yk. Gonna miss you bud. F

I miss Firefall, I remember REALLY enjoying before my PC died, and during the time before I got a new one it was shut down

Just FYI it wasn't Gamespy that killed Gotham City impostors, it was the fact that aimbots and wallhacks were quickly found that the devs simply couldn't fix without pouring a ton of money into the game. You would spawn in and be instakilled from across the map by a wallhacking aimbot so the only ones left after a few months were a handful of cheaters trying to outdo each other's bots.

Something I feel is very relevant to Gundam Evolution's situation is that its availability was EXTREMELY limited to only a few countries, it was straight up completly unavailable here in latinoamerica which I don't doubt contributed to the extremely tiny playerbase. It later became available worldwide but that wasn't long before its shutdown was announced

Thanks for mentioning Dragalia Lost. I was a day 1 player and played until the end of service. Very early in the games release, the playerbase was hopeful for a Switch port because the iconic Switch finger snap was in the game from the get-go. Although that didn't happen, I feel the game was filled with excitement throughout its lifetime. Unfortunately, this gem in my eye has sunset because the service ended. I am still watching the communities I was in for any news of a continuation of any sort, but I don't have much optimism at the moment. I take the game shutting down as a lesson that Live Service Always Online games are not the proper future of games. If a game comes out with either of these "features", I already know they are a ticking time bombs. They will evaporate into nothing but memories. It sucks when you want to share these moments with new people, or even just to relive them, but cannot even play a watered down version. The app is now just a welcome screen with its music that says thanks for playing.

According to Steam I have over 300 hours on Battleborn. Most of that was in matches, but I burned through a bunch of the single player / coop missions as well. Great game, poorly marketed, and Blizzard certainly didn't help when people mistakenly thought it was identical to Overwatch. Could have been managed better after launch, but my guess is Gearbox saw less players than they imagined and cut the budget for additional content and maintenance in response.

Actually, some of these games can be played again, because it got revived by the community, not only the community removed/adjusted the pricing for the item shops, but they also made it accessible for new players to jump in , games like: Battlefield Heroes revival, & Play4Free revival. NFS World Revival (Soapbox Raceworld), Hawken Revival (Hawken Refugees) Blacklight Retribution Revival BattleForge Revival (Skylords Reborn) Age Of Empires Online Revival (AOE Project Celeste) And a whole lot more.

Phantasy Star Universe is a dead live service and it was very popular. i wish more people would talk about it

So in short, micro-transactions and lack of single-player modes killed games. There's a reason old games like Doom and Quake maintain their success. Having the ability to have private servers makes a huge difference with gaming too.

Destiny 2 definitely fits on the list imo. To think the original campaign is just non existent now is pretty saddening... also I loved Defiance, played at launch. Underrated for sure

How is Gran Turismo Sport not on this list? They just announced its end of service date a few days ago. ...Or is it perhaps that the game will remain playable despite being unable to save or use custom liveries, buy cars, or even use the Mileage Shop?

its not here but Ghost in the shell first assult online was one of my favorite free to play live service games that was killed alittle over a year after coming out. It had really detailed weapon customization but for some reason they decided to change the class system to be more restrictive, locking gun to certain characters. it played like call of duty but a hero shooter. even more like a hero shooter after the killing update

I love how live "service" games are almost universally hated yet they keep getting made 🤔

fuck man battleborns shut down made me so sad, my friend and I used to play splitscreen, and we had great memories of us staying up late, him playing as toby, the fucking penguin in a mech. damn I miss it so much

i love how you included the clip of firefall, the game was my jam for what it was worth

Anyone remember Spartacus Legends? You would train your gladiators and fight. I remember you would have to wait real time for training and many other stuff. I can't remember much about the game but it's still installed on my 360.

I still make sure to play Doritos Crash Course any time I set up my 360. Such a fan game, back in the days of party chat it was hella fun to play that when waiting for people to either get on or come back from being AFK or just time out between changing games. Iconic game.

Gotham city imposters looks so cool, I’m kinda sad I never played it 😢

Bro Ghost Recon Phantoms awoken something in me. Also surprised to not see Loadout on here. One of my favorite ftp games that genuinely didnt feel pay to win

20:12 Saints Row 2022 was not a remake of the original, it's a reboot. Remember playing NFS World a lot back in the day, had so much potential but EA's heavy focus on adding cars into the game and not enough game modes or brand new areas got "De-prioritized".

Hyperscape was probably my favourite br due to how fun the games could get. So sad it was shut down

I remember playing warzone so much. Love that game to bits, really made me realise that u dont realise how much u love smth until its gone

I thought Gotham City Impostors was down too but I re-download it recently on Steam to reminisce only to find active servers, I was very surprised

The way you just broke my heart 15 seconds into the video reminding me that i can’t play Gotham Imposters.

The one game I always think of when thinking about shutdown live service games is that one ghost in the shell fps. It was a little generic but holy shit it was so much fun, I hope that some day it gets brought back by fans or something

Doritos Crash Course took over my entire school for a solid 3-4 months. everyone was OBSESSED trying to have the highest scores in the school. i remember the course Japan 3 was an absolute BATTLEGROUND

You have been infecting my KZfaq recommended and I love it! Keep up the great work! Earned my sub!

I think Phantoms would have been pretty popular if it was released today. Especially after the popularity of Wildlands.

Game I am both sad and happy you didn't mention. Dirty Bomb. Really cool game, great gameplay, Movement tech, and overall mechanics. Very objective based character PvP shooter. Interesting card system that changed your weapon and efficacy of your abilities. Cards also being tradable over steam at first, and while some could be bought they weren't ever really THE BEST, some where but not all. All went downhill when they added 2 mercs eventually that were a defensive powerhouse. A sheild merc and a very Huge range trophy system merc. Pair them with the turret guy and tou have a fortress. Game officially shutdown long ago, however there are still some private servers that linger here and there. Thankfully they have a server browser.

This video just made me sad. I miss some of these games, but also just feel bad knowing others have that same void of games they truly enjoyed.

The way to play Verdansk is through the cracked offline build, it only works via LAN, but you can use softwares like Radmin VPN to connect people over internet onto your LAN server. Only catch is the 500m collision issue that's now in limbo if someone out there can figure out to fix.

Bioshock 2's multiplayer deserves an honorable mention here even though it's not a "live service" game. That was amazing and is lost forever.

i pre ordered Defiance for that orange Dodge Charger pre order bonus. then i found out that they made a black one with 10 more speed that anyone could unlock and that was a slap in the face.

One of the best vids you have made. Thank you

I miss Battleborn, it was such a fun game. Wildstar too; though, Wildstar's downfall was due to mismanagement. The biggest nail in the coffin was right before F2P, they offered free server transfers to players could play in large groups. Many PvP players migrated to PvE servers with the understanding they could migrate back after the F2P drop. They couldn't and ultimately dropped the game. Considering how well GW2 was doing with a B2P model, Wildstar should have released with the same model, and I felt that was the biggest factor to why the game failed. Players would not have left in droves if they didn't have to pay a sub each month.

This video unlocked some many hidden memories about games I used to play… 😨🤣

The Defiance part is really cool. Maybe we can get something similar in the future.

One game that I never see talked about is free realms. I remember playing that game everyday on my parent’s computer growing up. I’ve never met and else who played or even heard of it. I know it was on ps3 also. Definitely gotta include it in the next video like this. Would love to hear you guys talk about what happened to that game. I had lifetime membership and all the special items from the chests you could get. I just wonder what happened I was young so I moved on and by the time I went back to it it was offline forever. They have a remake of some volunteers going on but it’s honestly lost all the hype from being in production for so long. Great video though! Been watching the channel like crazy the past few days y’all are amazing

I remember playing this games when i was extremely young like black light, gotham city, etc all seemed like amazing games to experience back in the day..

Why does no one ever mention that Battleborn had a campaign? There was a story campaign to that game. Nothing big, but still. And you can't play it anymore because you had to be online, even if you played by yourself...

Destiny 2 hurt the most. Pre-ordered the game (still have the case and cayde-6 figure), made sure to get all dlcs until forsaken then boom. All that money and all that story just gone. The BASE CAMPAIGN especially hurt most it’s what started Destiny 2 now new players won’t know what happened. Such a waste of money.

00:00 Overview of various live service games that have been discontinued. 00:27 Details about Gotham City Imposters, an early live service-style game. 00:45 Mention of how it transitioned from a paid game to free-to-play. 01:30 The game's eventual shutdown. 02:32 Information on Crossfire X, an anticipated game with a strong start. 03:07 Discussion about the issues that led to its decline and eventual shutdown. 04:35 Introduction of Doritos Crash Course 2 and its disappointing transition to a paywalled model. 05:47 Mention of its rapid closure after the release. 06:00 Brief details about Family Guy Online, an MMO game, and its short-lived existence. 07:09 Overview of EA's Play for Free campaign, including games like Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play for Free. 09:05 NFS World Play to Win racing game. 09:24 FIFA World Play for Free MMO Soccer game. 09:49 Brief details about the closure of these games. 10:52 Ultima Forever closure 11:07 Overview of the popularity and eventual closure of The Sims Online. 12:25 Information on The Matrix Online and its shutdown. 13:45 Kill off Morpheous??? 13:11 Information about Ghost Recon Phantoms and the decision to shut it down. 14:03 Details about Gundam Evolution, including the issues that led to its closure. 15:36 My experience with Gundam Evolution before the server shutdown. 16:13 Club Penguin. 17:10 Ghost Recon Phantom. 17:58 MMO games and their saturated market. 19:53 Concluding remarks on the rise and fall of various live service games. 20:04 Discussion of the closure of Volition and the impact of the "Saints Row" remake. 20:34 Agents of Mayhem its new IP and its weird. 21:52 BattleBorn mobile hero shooter similar to Overwatch. 23:40 Overview of Knockout City closures and their reasons. 24:57 Rumble Verse, a recent game that got closed down. 25:45 Hyper Scape: Ubisoft's response to BR games and as a late entry to the Battle Royale genre. 27:04 Evaluation of "Marvel Avengers" and its issues. 28:56 Analysis of "Jump Force" and its reception. 30:31 Discussion of "Call of Duty Warzone" and its transition between games. 33:39 Analysis of "Defiance" as an ambitious MMO and TV show project. 36:48 Discussion of "Dragalia Lost" as a Nintendo mobile game. 38:08 Evaluation of "Destiny 2" and its content sunsetting.

That defiance game jus unlocked the most random memory of playing it for a few hours on the ps3 after downloading it for free and then deleting it right after

Gothem City Imposters was so good. I played the game so much and loved every second. Durritos Crash Course was such a good game too. Idk if this is in here cause im not gonna watch the whole video and idek if its a "live service" game but Happy Wars was also really good.

The game I miss the most that almost no one remembers or even talks about is Gigantic. That game was honestly amazing and it did not deserve to die. To this day it still has a dedicated fan base that plays a private version of the game.

bf heroes was fun! i remember playing the beta, and the regular release. it has a really catchy theme song

Well I didn't know if I was gonna stick around for the whole video, but you bring up Gotham City Impostors 10 seconds into the video and now i'm hooked.

Some more games I would've added to this list would be Drawn To Death, Lawbreakers and Backlight Retribution. Those were really decent games that also got shutdown pretty quickly.

Uhhh, Agents of Mayhem doesn't have a multiplayer mode. Doesn't really fall under live service.

Gotham city imposters is a lil bit alive, cause there’s this small group I met on the game one day while randomly logging on and now I play with them like every Friday around 6 est . Although it does kick us out the server every now and then, it still works

Knockout City is still available to play. It has no official servers, but they patched in community hosted servers. So I'm not sure it belongs here. You can seemingly still download it too.

This is why you should never invest time in any live service game. You will forever be yearning to return to it, long after it's gone, if it was good.

The problem with defiance is that it wasn't available on next gen Then they made a new next gen called 2050 But then the 2050 variant was not as good The open world events spawned less frequent and with less variety, the guns you got were less in variety It takes longer to grind to get new stuff instead of the same stuff They took away an entire island And it takes much longer to go to the lower half of the map where you're at a level where you won't just get destroyed So you're experiencing the same weapons enemies missions and map for longer, too long

Ahhh 🙀 you did not mention “Nosgoth” nor “Age of Empires Online” Nosgoth: Looked great for it’s time! It was interesting but yet fun. Age of empires online: Was extremely addicting. It looked smooth and modern with its cartoony graphics. The multiplayer gameplay was surprisingly smooth and very rewarding to play.

RIP Dead Island: Epidemic and Loadout, maybe Microvolts (not sure if this one's been revived) 3 of the games i played the most when i was a kid, and they all shut down around 2016-17...

I really am sad to see Gundam Evolution go. But I think not having crossplay was a major downside, especially in western regions where the franchise isn't as popular. But I can see why it was condemn for the MTX, especially with how pricey they were. But as I always say to people, I enjoyed it cause of the freedom from roles it came with. Most other games like this had some form of dedicated roles. This game was mainly, you picked someone and you just played and had fun. Sure, there were some units that were better at other roles than some. But the fact that you didn't need someone to be a support or someone to be tank, that is what really mattered to me. Just being able to play a hero shooter with no role restrictions, and just have fun.

You know what Gothan City Inposters really needed? Multiplayer Bots like in the Call of Duty series, with a seperate leveling up system for when you're playing against bots. It would have been played more by everyone who owned the game, but so far no one has done that well other than Call of Duty.

Agents of Mayhem wasn't multiplayer actually. It just a single player game that people thought was co op because of the hero characters, when in fact the gameplay was just switching between a squad of 3 of them that you pick out.

Jump Force actually had a strong player base all the way up to the end of its run (I never waited more then 2 minutes to find a match); and the game is still playable online (casual only); you just can’t buy it anymore from digital stores. It shutting down was more so due to licensing, similar to its predecessor J-Stars which was also delisted but still playable.

i played the crossfire x beta and love it sniping was disgustingly good and loved the pub stomping

one game that comes to my mind is Final Fantasy 14 the original version.

The 360 version of Gotham Imposters is actually still available to buy in the marketplace. And the online still works too.

Seeing Ghost Recon Phantoms brought a tear to my eye.

Gotham City imposters was one if the best FPS games ever (my opinion). Really wish they would remaster it for the new consoles. I kiss the game so much.

Im sad to say ive played almost every single one of these games

No mention of Loadout :( (pretty much a build your gun game, game was very chaotic and fun and extremely unbalanced, over time devs updated less and less and thus the player count went down slowly...)

MY BOY ROCKET BROUGHT UP GOTHAM IMPOSTERS. YOU LEGEND. I’ll see you when streaming bro

Battleborn was actually super fun, I spent so many hours during the beta/prerelease and postrelease, but not too long after Overwatch's release, no one was online anymore. I think you can still play the PVE mode (a mode that Overwatch STILL doesn't have) but it's not as great anymore now that you're matching with yourself in a 4-player mode. I keep wanting to go back, but I know there's no one online anymore.

Dust 514 is another one these game, it was quite fun and sad see it die.

I've worked on several games shown in your videos, it's funny.

12:25 the moment you said "upload their own images" I knew this was getting nuked. Whenever those words are said all that can happen is bad things.

I miss Battleborn! I personally liked it more than overwatch :( I used to play so much on Xbox i still have clips playing with my friend and we did sooo good! Orendi was my main and i destroyed with her, i hated that later on kinda b4 the game shut down they randomly changed her dash-burst like move and it'd leave flames in whatever direction you went, anyhoo i still re-watch my many old clips, I even played the beta for Battleborn, I MISS THAT GAME :(( it was extremely fun and the characters were so dang cool! Agree doritos crash course was amazing and the 2nd one was lame with paywalls pretty much ppl would just go back to the first dorito CC game lol Gotham City Imposters was absolutely a blast i still miss it too It was so silly and chaotic Thanks for the awesome video and talking about these old live service games it was nice seeing them being talked about 🎉

Another live service game that got its servers shut down was Starhawk. It was my first shooter game back in the day and it got shut down a few years ago

Gotham City Impostors is actually still available to play on Xbox 360, the shutdown only affected the PS3 version; albeit the game is basically dead. But yeah, it's sad to see it die regardless. I hella enjoyed it - probably my 2nd favorite MP game on 360 next to Halo: Reach.

Gundam Evolution is so good it's a shame they're ending it I don't play it anymore since I know it's ending and that's definitely one of the things I hated from it if someone left the whole match ended or it would not replace the person that left which made the other team get a huge advantage

I remember Gotham Imposters as a kid but couldn't afford it haha

Ohhh! I worked on Gotham City Impostors! That game was such an underrated gem. I had lots of fun when it was in my labs. I miss it.

I played through Agents of Mayham twice (one save slot and one of the online trophies glitched on me). It was an okay game but got very repetitive doing the same dungeons and fighting the same mosters. The only online portion of it was doing collective missions where the player base has to complete tasks daily such as kill 2000 of this enemy, kill 100 of this elite enemy, collect 100,000 cash.

I feel that Firefly Online should have been on here although it never made it out of beta which was playable on steam