{"id":1724,"date":"2025-11-02T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:20:34","slug":"stop-killing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/stop-killing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Killing Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This habit of game design sucks. So much so a movement has started: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Killing_Games\">Stop Killing Games &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have one to add to this, one of my gavorite games of to play &#8220;The Golf Club 2019 feature the PGA Tour.&#8221; <em class=\"eujQNb\" data-processed=\"true\"><span class=\"N9Q8Lc\">The Golf Club 2019<\/span><\/em><span class=\"N9Q8Lc\">\u00a0can no longer go online\u00a0<\/span><mark class=\"HxTRcb\" data-processed=\"true\"><span class=\"N9Q8Lc\">because its servers were permanently shut down on October 30, 2025<\/span><\/mark><span class=\"N9Q8Lc\">, as <a href=\"http:\/\/The Golf Club 2019 can no longer go online because its servers were permanently shut down on October 30, 2025, as part of a &quot;server sunsetting&quot; process to focus on newer games. This means that after this date, all online features, including multiplayer, online courses, and in-game store purchases, are no longer available\">part of a &#8220;server sunsetting&#8221; process to focus on newer games<\/a>. This means that after this date, all online features, including multiplayer, online courses, and in-game store purchases, are no longer available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m on the best pace ever on a PGA tour game, to find out randomly I can&#8217;t play my campaign cause it says I have to be online (to play an offline portion of the game).<\/p>\n<p>As H8 Gamers states &#8220;Why does the PGA tour element of the game require an online server, I&#8217;ve only played a little of the game and thought only multiplayer required an online server to make it work. Now it will feel like a pointless purchase if there is no story mode, unless I don&#8217;t understand the tour mode correctly as I only played a few holes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I get discontinuing online servers to support legacy games becomes strenuous vs the amount of player (player base), but all offline features should be recoded with a last time update to release them from their coded dependencies on servers they know aren&#8217;t going to be online.<\/p>\n<p>TLDR, this sucks, stop making games like this&#8230;. watch I bet they still have it listed for purchase on stream too&#8230;\u00a0 &#8220;Notice: The Golf Club\u2122 2019 featuring PGA TOUR is no longer available on the Steam store.&#8221; alright touche on that one.. but still&#8230; ****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This habit of game design sucks. So much so a movement has started: Stop Killing Games &#8211; Wikipedia I have one to add to this, one of my gavorite games of to play &#8220;The Golf Club 2019 feature the PGA Tour.&#8221; The Golf Club 2019\u00a0can no longer go online\u00a0because its servers were permanently shut down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/stop-killing-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop Killing Games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-n-games","tag-killing-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}