{"id":1951,"date":"2010-01-20T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/20\/when-psn-games-fade-away\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T06:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T11:46:40","slug":"when-psn-games-fade-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/20\/when-psn-games-fade-away\/","title":{"rendered":"When PSN Games Fade Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was cruising around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n4g.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.n4g.com\/', 'N4G');\" target=\"_blank\">N4G<\/a> this morning I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/thegameraccess.com\/ps3\/calling-all-cars-still-playable-online\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/thegameraccess.com\/ps3\/calling-all-cars-still-playable-online', 'article');\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/callingallcars\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/callingallcars', 'Calling All Cars');\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Calling All Cars<\/em><\/a>.  Apparently as of Jan 14, Sony no longer hosts the game on its servers.  The article shows that the game is still playable, as long as you (or a friend) hosts the game.<\/p>\n<p>My concern is that folks that paid for the game were not told up front that their online experience would fade away after a certain period of time.  Granted, I got the game for free as part of a <a href=\" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qore_%28PlayStation_Network%29\" target=\"_blank\">Qore<\/a> episode\/subscription, have not played the game in a while, and am not all that bent out of shape about the game fading away.  Of course that is beside the point.  Since I do not have any skin in this one, it only bothers me enough to write a short rant, but what happens when a game I care about disappears?<\/p>\n<p>I think Sony needs to keep hosting these games for the life of the PS3, or Sony needs to offer some sort of voucher (for those that paid for the game) for a replacement game as PSN content is discontinued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was cruising around N4G this morning I came across this article for Calling All Cars. Apparently as of Jan 14, Sony no longer hosts the game on its servers. The article shows that the game is still playable, as long as you (or a friend) hosts the game. My concern is that folks that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/20\/when-psn-games-fade-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When PSN Games Fade Away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,26],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-psn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}