Epic Video games is starting to close down on-line providers for a big collection of its older video games, together with Rock Band 1 by 3, The Beatles: Rock Band, and Unreal Event 2003 and 2004. The corporate is making the adjustments as “we transfer to solely assist Epic On-line Providers with its unified buddies system, voice chat options, parental controls, and parental verification options,” it mentioned in a weblog put up on Wednesday.
The shutdowns will start on Wednesday. For the beneath video games, on-line providers shall be absolutely disabled by January twenty fourth, although you possibly can nonetheless play single-player or offline multiplayer. Epic can also be starting to take away the video games from digital storefronts (the place you would nonetheless purchase them) and disabling in-game DLC purchases.
1000 Tiny Claws
Dance Central 1-3
Inexperienced Day: Rock Band
Monsters (Most likely) Stole My Princess
Rock Band 1-3
The Beatles: Rock Band
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Vehicles
Unreal Gold
Unreal II: The Awakening
Unreal Event 2003
Unreal Event 2004
Unreal Event 3
Unreal Event: Recreation of the 12 months Version
Should you’re upset to see Unreal Event 3 on the listing, I do have some excellent news: Epic says that it plans to convey again on-line options for the sport sooner or later. As noticed by deals expert Wario64, there’s already a Steam web page for a sport known as Unreal Event 3 X, and based on the itemizing, it will likely be free with crossplay between Steam, Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG.
Confusingly, Unreal Event 3 X’s launch date is listed as November nineteenth, 2007, and there’s a discover that the sport is “now not out there” on the shop. However on condition that Unreal Event 3 initially launched that very same day, it appears Epic is likely to be repurposing the older sport’s Steam web page for the newer launch. Epic declined to remark.
As for Rock Band, which Epic snapped up as a part of its Harmonix acquisition in 2021, the studio says that Rock Band 4’s on-line multiplayer will stay out there. However with the shutdowns to the opposite Rock Band video games on the listing, you gained’t have the ability to purchase DLC songs, that means you gained’t have the ability to broaden your track libraries as soon as DLC purchases are absolutely disabled.
Epic is making adjustments for just a few different video games and apps as effectively. On Wednesday, the Mac and Linux variations of the avian relationship simulators Hatoful Boyfriend and Hatoful Boyfriend: Vacation Star and the cell sport DropMix shall be pulled from storefronts. Battle Breakers, a free-to-play RPG, shall be shut down on December thirtieth. Unreal Event (Alpha), Rock Band Blitz, the Rock Band Companion app, and VR karaoke sport SingSpace shall be shut down on January twenty fourth.