The last Splatoon player has somehow made it to two months on the shooter’s dead servers, even as Nintendo starts removing features from the sequel
They’re not going anywhere
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Splatoon was supposed to die quickly; it should have fizzled out after Nintendo shut down 3DS and Wii U serverson April 8. Butone brave playerhas managed to keep Splatoon-ing two months post-mortem while Nintendo starts removing features from the sequel.
Defying Nintendo isno easy feat, but I guess being a huge Splatoon fan makes some people up for the challenge. Lcd101, theself-proclaimed"final Splatoon 1 player," has now lasted over two months on the nonfunctional server.
They post daily updates in a captain’s logon Twitter. It seems that life in the barren, Book of Revelation Inkopolis has become so boring, Lcd101 has taken to reminiscing about better Splatoon days.
Theirmost recent logfrom June 10 celebrates “day 63 on the Nintendo Network!” with a reminder that “ten years ago today, Splatoon was officially revealed to the world at E3 2014. For ten years, we’ve been living in a more creative, colorful world.”
As Lcd101 basks in their nostalgia, Nintendo is seemingly working on dismantling Splatoon 2, its 2017 third-person shooter for Switch. The developer notedin its customer support centerthat Splatoon 2 has lost access to Twitter (or X, or whatever) integration and social media integration for its friends list.
In addition, players will no longer be able to post directly to Twitter or Facebook from Splatoon 3. These changes presumably come, in part, from Twitter/X’s decision to monetizetheir third-party API.
But fans have started to lament the fact that"Splatoon 2 is slowly dying"as players flock to Splatoon 3, which released in 2022.
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“I’m afraid Splatoon 2 died the minute Splatoon 3 came out,” one Reddit commenter said. “Could since never get into a single ranked match.”
Splatoon update accountOatmealDome also notesthat, after 2’s posting features were removed, “all players in the Square are now Nintendo-made presets, likethe Miiverse shutdownin Splatoon 1.” Splatoon 2’s future looks dark. You should try playing Splatoon 1 instead.
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Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
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