Sony has quite the habit of turning off multiplayer servers as of late, and unfortunately, another wave of turn offs have hit some of Naughty Dog's classic PS3 titles. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, The Last of Us, and The Last of Us: Left Behind will all lose their online multiplayer functionality at the beginning of September.
From 3rd September, the multiplayer servers in question will be turned off, but until then, Naughty Dog wants to celebrate the various titles. Henceforth, all DLC will be made free to every game via a bundle on the PlayStation Store, which will include all maps, gameplay additions, and vanity items.
"It’s bittersweet to say the least. Uncharted and The Last of Us multiplayer on the PS3 are defining entries in Naughty Dog’s history and we’ve been honored to support the passionate communities that have grown around them for almost a decade. We have so many fond memories from playing alongside you throughout the years."
Thankfully, the multiplayer capabilities of PS4's The Last of Us Remastered are not affected by this, while Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection never brought over the multiplayer portion of the games it remastered in the first place. Are you feeling let down by more news of multiplayer shutdowns? Shed a tear in the comments below.
[source naughtydog.com]
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I didn't spend a ton of time on Uncharted's multiplayer, but the time I did spend was a blast!
It stinks, but it was going to happen sooner or later. It's been nearly a full console gen, and Uncharted 2 is a decade old. Honestly, it was only a matter of time.
They're very old games so it's understandable. Sony has a terrible reputation for supporting online titles at the moment, though. Fortunately, these did get the kind of lifespans they deserved.
Farewell!
I very much enjoyed the MP for uncharted 3 and TLoU. Never got into it forbUC4 though. Im genuinely surprised the mp servers were still up at this point considering Sony is no nonsense on pulling the plug
Wish these games and other games supported some sort of server hosting after they turn their servers off, and fans can still play on servers they rent themselves or some other solution.
Didn’t even realize U2’s was still active. Love U3’s multiplayer and wish U4 could have taken the same approach as it’s pretty bad in comparison. Still sucks seeing these games get shut off and wish there was some type of way to be able to rent servers so communities could get together and activate them one weekend a year or something if they wanted :/
it is probably the servers used for stats/matchmaking that could be using de-supported operating systems / software and hardware. the community might not be large enough for the effort required to migrate it to new tech to be worthwhile.. it doesn't actually use servers for the hosting, it uses p2p. ND themselves said they chose p2p because it would allow the game to live longer. personally i haven't played U2/U3 multiplayer since PS4 came out.. and Last of Us' multiplayer is much better on PS4 anyway imo.
What kind of online multiplayer functionality does The Last of Us: Left Behind have? I thought it was only single-player story content.
And oh yah, BRICK F***ing MASTER!!!!
The ps4 Version's of the uncharted trillogy didn't have the mutiplayer and The last of us Remastered is Still going pretty strong
Nooooo last of us online is my go to ps3 game..... dammm
I would love if they could turn on peer-to-peer game servers, so some of these multiplayer games could live on in some way.
@Eternallover21
I did play on PS4 it seemed jerky in comparison to ps3 version...guess I’ll have to pick me up a copy...
Noooooo I still play Uncharted 3. This sucks.
UC2 was the last multiplayer game I really got into. It was incredibly addictive and well designed. This is sad to hear.
And Drive Club as well 🤨.
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