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The graveyard is expanding, y’all.<\/figcaption>Image: Bandai Namco \/ Blizzard \/ Codemasters \/ Ubisoft \/ Kotaku \/ Odette Villarreal (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nThere was a time, back in the day, where you’d just buy a finished game and played it. No day-one updates or extra patches\u2014it was simple. These games couldn’t \u201cdie\u201d because they simply\u2026existed. But as MMOs and live-service games (or \u201cgames as a service\u201d) began to proliferate, requiring online servers and constant support from developers to keep things up and running, so too has the number of games that’ve hit in the graveyard . Please, bow your heads as were solemnly mark this year’s casualties.<\/p>\n
There were quite a few, too, from racing sims like Dirt Rally<\/em> and Project Cars<\/em> to battle royales like Hyperscape<\/em> and massively-multiplayer online role-playing games such as tera<\/em>. Not every game on this list is \u201cdead\u201d in the traditional sense, with some still having minor functionality that makes them somewhat playable, but all are no longer receiving developmental resources or updates, effectively making them dead games.<\/p>\nRead More:<\/strong> 12 Games Killed In 2021 That Prove Preservation Is Vital<\/span><\/p>\nWith that, here are 14 games that died in 2022:<\/p>\n
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The graveyard is expanding, y’all.Image: Bandai Namco \/ Blizzard \/ Codemasters \/ Ubisoft \/ Kotaku \/ Odette Villarreal (Shutterstock) There was a time, back in the day, where you’d just buy a finished game and played it. No day-one updates or extra patches\u2014it was simple. These games couldn’t \u201cdie\u201d because they simply\u2026existed. But as MMOs …<\/p>\n
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