2K Sports activities has introduced that will probably be delisting two of its video games later this month, then shutting their servers down in the summertime.
As noticed by Delisted Video games, 2K has quietly up to date the digital retailer pages of WWE 2K Battlegrounds and NBA 2K Playgrounds 2, informing gamers that they’ll quickly be faraway from the shop.
In accordance with the assertion each video games shall be delisted from digital storefronts on February 26.
After this date, gamers who personal them will be capable of proceed taking part in and redownloading them, however 2K says their on-line servers will then shut down on July 9.
“After that point, all recreation features requiring on-line servers will not operate,” the assertion reads.
Whereas each video games do have offline single-player modes, 2K typically ties unlockables to its on-line servers, as a result of gamers often get the choice to purchase additional content material with actual cash, or grind in-game cash to get them.
It’s possible, then, that whereas WWE 2K Battlegrounds will nonetheless enable gamers to proceed taking part in offline, it could not enable them to unlock new characters with the cash they accumulate in-game, as a result of it makes use of the net servers to make this transaction.
Equally, NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 has gamers unlocking new characters by shopping for packs with both actual cash or in-game foreign money, that means it’s additionally unlikely this shall be doable after July 9.
WWE 2K Battlegrounds was launched in 2020 and supplied a extra arcade-like wrestling recreation than the primary simulation-focused WWE 2K sequence. The sport’s roster was portrayed as motion determine variations of their real-life counterparts, permitting for over-the-top strikes.
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 was launched earlier in 2018, and was an arcade-style two-on-two basketball recreation just like the NBA Jam sequence, permitting gamers to unlock licensed NBA gamers from the previous and current.
