I kinda like how the Unreal Tournament 2004 situation resolved itself:
Epic pulled the game from sale on online stores, but you still keep it in your library.
After almost 20 years of continous operation, Epic shut down the master server last year, this should be a benchmark of a good deal when buying a multiplayer game, now shutting down the master servers didn’t mean online play stopped working, no, even before the shut off date, fans had a new fan made master server up and running and a quick config change in the ut2004.ini file is all that is required to get the experience back to how it worked on release.
I kinda like how the Unreal Tournament 2004 situation resolved itself:
Epic pulled the game from sale on online stores, but you still keep it in your library.
After almost 20 years of continous operation, Epic shut down the master server last year, this should be a benchmark of a good deal when buying a multiplayer game, now shutting down the master servers didn’t mean online play stopped working, no, even before the shut off date, fans had a new fan made master server up and running and a quick config change in the ut2004.ini file is all that is required to get the experience back to how it worked on release.