Resident Evil: Outbreak and Monster Hunter Online Service Shutting Down
Posted by Jonathan on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm under Capcom, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Games, Games Industry, Sony
Bad news for the people still playing Resident Evil: Outbreak and Monster Hunter. Capcom says the online servers for the game will be shutting down on Dec. 31. Apparently the company providing the hosting service has decided to exit the PS2 market altogether, leaving Capcom with little choice:
And just so you know, although these are older titles, we did want to make an effort to keep the fans happy and continue supporting online play. We’ve tried to extend the contract, move it someplace else, etc. It’s not happening. The hosting partner (who I guess remains nameless here) is just quitting the business entirely and doesn’t want to mess around with the time/money involved in porting anything. Thanks to everyone who has kept these games fun online for so many years.
Didn’t know people were still playing RE: Outbreak, but I’ll bet there are at least a couple people out there who are pretty upset by this.
Via Capcom
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December 4th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Aww..
I played the crap out of that game online. Well, I;m going to be playing it more this month before it ends.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
December 7th, 2007 at 1:52 am
go to 1up.com and sign the petition to keep the servers alive, capcom needs to know. how many people they're disappointing.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:36 am
NO!
well this just makes me hope that they eventually make an Outbreak 3 for PS3 and they can hopefully get online support for that.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT CLOSED IT CLOSED WOAOAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
THOSE B******* 1up.com GO HERE GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
save it bring it back!!!!!!!!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 9:16 am
CAN'T find it JOE help me i want to save it
Joe says:
December 7th, 2007 at 1:52 am
go to 1up.com and sign the petition to keep the servers alive, capcom needs to know. how many people they're disappointing.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:46 am
March 11th, 2008 at 5:54 am
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I know, I was ABOUT to play MH online, got the adapter and all just to find out the server is gone. D:
At least find a different company or host it yourself! damn CAPCOM… >O
May 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Sign the petition, write and call corporate guys! This is bull!
http://www.petitiononline.com/REOback/petition.html
Capcom U.S.A., Inc.
Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
800 Concar Drive, Suite 300
San Mateo, CA 94402-2649
(650) 350-6500 main number
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
After reading thru this article and skimming over some of the comments ive noticed a few things. True it is very irritating that capcom's online providers just dropped from the map but what every seems to be forgetting is that they never payed anything special for the online play. I see plenty of messages whhere people over-react and say that they'll "never play another capcom product again" because they took the special prize inside out of their box of Cap'n Crunch. The fact is, you didnt pay anything for the online play aside from the basic price of the game, so you have no right to flip out like something has been stolen from you. Sure it sucks, but thats one of the risks of free-play online. Without getting payed, the providers can do whatever the hell they want with the game. So just try to keep that in mind.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
shinyguy says:
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
"I see plenty of messages where people over-react and say that they'll "never play another Capcom product again" because they took the special prize inside out of their box of Cap'n Crunch."
ROFL…nice, i need to remember this one.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
PS2 Online Sucks that why Capcom pull the Plud on Resident Evil Outbrak & File2 the Only Online Game Good on PS2 is Socom 2 XBox Live FTW