The Chromehounds community, dozens strong, was informed of the news last week: Sega will be pulling the plug on January 6, 2010. According to Sega forum administrator, “all online components for Chromehounds will no longer be accessible and the game will only be available for play in Offline modes.”
That means, if you still need some of Chromehounds’ Xbox Live Achievements tied to the game’s online component, you better get ‘em now. Or at least before January.
The From Software mech game was released for the Xbox 360 in the summer of 2006. We don’t what 3.5 years of online play translates to in chromed dog years.
Chromehounds Online Service Closure – January 6, 2010 [Sega - thanks, John!]
Jackson Thurtle
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 11:59 AMAww. I bought Chromehounds. But only about 4-6 months ago, so I missed out on all the online…
Ah well. Xbox Live is all US hosted, so it’s not even worth signing in to play online.
plmko
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 1:09 PMSome Xbox fanboys have argued before that Xbox live rules because games will be online for longer, mmmm yeah… cause thats makes sense.
EvaUnit02
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 4:10 PMMost XBL games use P2P hosting, rather than dedicated servers. Not very many titles use the latter, aside from EA-developed games.