These video game series may be dead but their online communities are very lively

Summary

• Communities can maintain older online games after publishers leave them, such as Pirates of the Caribbean online and club penguin.

• Recreation of fans enable former players to revise beloved titles such as Toontown Online, via the toontown override.

• The number of players who are diminishing does not mean the end for games like Bloodborne, because the community revives annual events as a “return to Yharnam”.

Many games come and go to our lives over the years, evoke a sense of nostalgia and joy when we sometimes think we could return and play them again. And for the most part, you can approach these games in a large number of ways and start walking through them as you remembered.

But what if these games were primarily online and have been abandoned since then? The vast majority of games will be dead when it happens, but some devoted communities can be crazy enough to keep it above water with unofficial servers and passion!

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Pirates from the Caribbean online

Legend continues

We dig things out, we have pirates from the Caribbean online, MMO based on the title franchise, which took place from 2007 to 2013. While its official servers are offline for 12 years, the community surrounding this title maintained it all the time.

The Pirates Online Legend is a devoted to recreation of the beloved MMO fans a small team that allows players to jump and sail on the free sera. There are about a few hundred players at the moment, which is quite impressive for this project. If you loved it back on the day you should check it!

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Toontown Online

Rewriting

The massive and generation MMORPG called Toonown Online officially launched in 2003 before closing the servers about ten years later in 2013 and broke the hearts of many who invested hundreds for thousands of hours in Disney's charming and unique world with their friends.

Fortunately, thanks to the ongoing efforts of a small team of fans, this fantastic online experience is still alive through the rewritten toontown, allowing players to log in with their old tooni and teleport back to your childhood. This is one of the best examples of the community that connects to save something they have appreciated for many years!

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Club Penguin

Back and better than ever

Speaking of other deeply respected Disney Interactive MMO studies, which has been taken offline after almost 12 years of service, we have Club Penguin, one of the easiest recognizable and iconic games of its kind. To say that players were devastating when it was closed would be an underestimation.

After several attempts to close fan projects and servers that kept them above the water, Club Penguin Legacy allows you to jump back and overcome nostalgia. If Club Penguin was part of your childhood and you thought it was dead for a long time, it's a necessity!

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Stargate: Resistance

Disable

Stargate: Resistance is next in a row and was a third-party scorer based on the Stargate SG-1 TV show, which had a surprising watching of devotees. If you were one of them, you may be excited to learn that you can still jump and play it online for 14 years after its servers darken.

Using the central server solution, fans restored the online functionality of this specialized shooter, which survived only a year after its release. Whether you were a fan of the show or this niche, jumping online and getting into the event should be your highest priority!

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Bloodborne

Provide us more blood

Yes, we know it's a little strange to have here, but to hear us for a moment. While Bloodborne servers are still alive and well, its online gaming base is shrinking every day and their online aspects remain more spiritual city than a prosperous community.

So if you expect to participate in your PVP, read messages, or summon players for help at an exhausting boss meeting, you will probably fight your efforts. However, every year from March 24 to 7 April, the community connects for the annual “Return on Yharnam” and relies again, as if it were the start of the game!

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Spellbreak

Another unique example comes from Spellbreak, which left its official servers closed in 2023, about three years after it was launched. Unlike other items on this list, however, developers have created a community version of this title, making it easier to maintain the game alive.

Yeah, that's true, Proletariat has released the official community version of Spellbreak on Itch.io, allowing you to host and connect to servers around the world, keep the game alive after its official development. It is very great to see and experienced massive spikes in the number of players since then, which is always a plus!

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Fusionfall

Fusionfall ran from 2009 to 2013 and showed a unique MMO experience that showed almost every Caroon Network IP that time, making it a dream world for its players and immediate classics for those who experienced it during their childhood.

Unfortunately, years after its shutdown, fans released the revival of the title project, which divided the game into two versions: the original edition (retro) and others, which was the original game with other content (Legacy). In the end it met with the stopping of DMCA, which forced the project to go offline.

Fortunately, things end up with a positive note, while Openfusion restores the original edition of the game, which allows fans to enjoy it again. If it was a clear part of your youth, you must absolutely dive and see what's going on!

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Discord fighters

Down but not outside

In the end, we have “Discord fighters” that may or may not carry a negative connotation, depending on the circles you hang. Overall, we love how passionate fighting games are because you will find an active and enthusiastic gaming base for almost any combat game, and find them online for them.

While some of these titles still have their servers (DNF duel, Soul Calibur 6, Dead or Alive 6, etc.), you will not be lucky to look for matches online throughout the day. Thanks to Discord, however, you will find hundreds of people who want to throw and even teach new technology, keep things fresh and live.

In addition, exceptionally niche fighting games such as Arcana Heart 3: Love Max Six Stars, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, Fighting Ex Layer, and many others are given by another breath of life, allowing you to find constant matches. Although it is a pity to see how some newer games will become Discord fighters, we like to see how their communities move around them and keep them above water!