Capcom has quietly up to date Lost Planet 2 to take away Games for Windows Live (GFWL), primarily eliminating on-line performance and former save information.
It is come as fairly a shock to Lost Planet followers on the subreddit, not least as a result of Lost Planet 2 is a multiplayer recreation. As we wrote in our 2010 assessment: “At its core it is a probably nice motion recreation and it’s extremely handsome, nevertheless it explains itself so extremely poorly and has such a clumsy construction and poor checkpointing that a whole lot of the enjoyable is ruined by interminable frustration — to not point out the truth that it is mainly unplayable as a single-player recreation. It has a couple of real standout moments, particularly on the uncommon events that every little thing works in co-op, however they do not stability out the faults.”
Whereas dropping save information is unhealthy sufficient, it is that bit on the finish — “it is mainly unplayable as a single-player recreation” — that is notably attention-grabbing right here, as with out GFWL, Lost Planet 2 has misplaced a vital a part of its gameplay.
“The entire promoting level of the collection is co-op,” said one participant. “Might as nicely have simply deleted the sport from Steam at that time,” whereas one other asked incredulously: “…they removed the net performance in a recreation that’s supposed to be performed in on-line coop?”
GFWL was a web based gaming service offered by Microsoft. It built-in options like Xbox achievements, on-line play, and cross-platform multiplayer, nevertheless it’s now deprecated, which implies gamers of video games that use it both must make peace with enlongated login instances, or wait for the developer to replace — which is what avid gamers are hoping will occur right here, though it is laborious to say that’ll be the case given Lost Planet 2 is 15 years outdated now.
On the plus facet, this should not have an effect on any new gamers — Lost Planet 2 has been withdrawn from sale, with Capcom leaving a message on the Steam storefront web page, saying: “We’re conscious of a problem that some clients could also be experiencing throughout recreation set up which is said to Games for Windows LIVE. We’re briefly disabling the acquisition choice on Steam whereas we examine the matter additional. We are going to maintain you knowledgeable of the progress of the investigation. Thanks for your endurance.”
Different Capcom video games like Avenue Fighter x Tekken and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon Metropolis have additionally been impacted, with related messages additionally displaying on their Steam pages. Nonetheless, some followers hope this’ll be a brief concern; when Capcom equally eliminated GFWL from Resident Evil, the workforce was reportedly in a position to implement Steamworks multiplayer as a alternative.
We have requested Capcom for remark and can let you realize as/after we hear again.
We thought Lost Planet 2 was ‘okay’ when it launched manner again in 2010.
Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.
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