Respawn Entertainment has announced that the original Titanfall game will no longer be sold and will remove the game from subscription services on March 1, XNUMX. Nonetheless, it will still be holding live Titanfall servers for its dedicated fanbase that still plays.
The move comes after a series of DDoS attacks in recent times. Denial of service attacks aim to disrupt normal server traffic by sending large numbers of requests that cause servers to shut down.
Titanfall was bombarded with DDoS attacks, resulting in players being kicked off the servers or unable to join a match, making the purchased game unplayable. Players begged Respawn to fix the issue, but it seems the company never did anything about it. Although it seems to keep the servers alive, the game is virtually unplayable, so how does that help?
Analysis: #SAVETITAFALL
Hacking and DDoS attacks led to the abandonment of Titanfall on PC. According to Steam Charts, there are currently no players on Titanfall, and an average of 6 people play the game per month.
For the past 3 years, hackers have been using exploits on the Titanfall servers to break the game and make it unplayable. Hackers used bot requests, which continuously connected to the Titanfall servers and filled the required player threshold in the lobby before a match started, thus preventing players from joining matches.
And while the game hasn't been playable of late, Respawn still sold the game on PC. If you had purchased the game during this time, you would be faced with a "deceased" game.
This led players to voice their concerns to Respawn and EA, and Titanfall on Steam received overwhelmingly negative reviews, as players bombarded EA's discussion forums with their pleas, and certain disgruntled players even launched a site. Www.savetitanfall.com (no longer active) to raise awareness of the game's drawbacks. Some have gone so far as to hack into Apex Legends servers and display the hashtag "#SAVETITANFALL" in in-game popups.
Even Titanfall XNUMX has started getting hacked. Titanfall XNUMX streamers were "blacklisted" as hackers tracked their various accounts and IP addresses to ensure they could never join a game.
Respawn apologized and aimed to address the issues affecting both Titanfall games by saying, "Help is coming," and that it was looking into the ongoing DDoS attacks back in May. But again, that help never came. A former Respawn employee even claimed that the company will "SOLVE THIS" in July.
Instead, Respawn waved the white flag and left Titanfall a no man's land, and there's not much hope for Titanfall XNUMX either. But Titanfall XNUMX has a good single player campaign that should always be played by everyone.
Overall, this move only caused a backlash among enthusiasts, who may never excuse Respawn.
Dear pilots, we have no interest in seriously trying to solve this problem. We're removing the first game to get around legal issues and leaving a vague implication for a new game that's going to be badder than what we moved from the first 2 to Apex. Thanks for your money, Respawn December 1, 2021
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