Test Drive Unlimited: Servers To Be Shut Down Soon

[Tom]

Atari & Eden Games recently announced that their MMORG (Massive Multiplayer Online Racing Game) will cease to exist - as an PC online game - come end of September. The servers are scheduled to go offline forever on the 29th of this month. However, if players decide to boot up TDU afterwards they'll still be able to play offline - yet, that's a bit more lonely than most players might have gotten used to during recent years.



Having been released in 2007, TDU continued to suffer from losing more and more players recently. After around 5 years that's most certainly only natural. Similar current games are Burnout: Paradise, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Forza Horizon - although neither of them is, to our current knowledge, focused on playing online as much as TDU was and still is for 4 weeks to come.

[source: teamvvv.com | image: gamereactor]

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[Viesturs Priede]

Is it just TDU or they will shut down servers for the TDU 2 as well with this? Because I was just going to start playing it online, lol.

 

[Tom]

It doesn't mention TDU2 and seeing that it's been on the market for only around 18 months I'd say it's unlikely TDU2 will be affected as well.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Yeah just kill the best TDU ever made. Great stuff again Atari Can we host the servers ourselves?

 

[magicfr]

As Game dev of TDU Physics I feel a bit sad
Atari is going down.
Eden Games is going down.
Atari is SOOO great to destruct good I.P. and make poor sequel

Made the good decision leaving that ship in 2008.

 

[Paul M Jones]

That's it for the best TDU. It was great fun.

 

[Ian Strom]

@Bram Hengeveld Totally.
I never actually played TDU but I know people who love it. Being able to host one's own server would be very useful.

 

[KS95]

There's a guy on TDU-Central who owns a datacenter in Spain. He's asking about getting hold of Atari to take over the servers.. so there's still hope. Assuming Atari will actually respond.

 

[magicfr]

I don't think they will answer.
The IP for main server is encrypted in data base, that would need to patch the game.
This mean working on TDU 1 ... I doubt they will do it.

 

[KS95]

Ha, well if work is required on their part then it's maybe unlikely. However if money is involved perhaps that could be an incentive?

 

[KS95]

Sign the petition!

http://www.change.org/petitions/atari-keep-the-tdu1-servers-online

 

[hamza shahid]

Is it just TDU or they will shut down servers for the TDU 2 as well with this? Because I was just going to start playing it online, lol.

hi .. can anyone tell me how to get test drive unlimited servers... i tried many times but i dont get it...

 

[hamza shahid]

hi .. can anyone tell me how to get test drive unlimited servers... i tried many times but i dont get it...

 

[hamza shahid]

Sign the petition!

http://www.change.org/petitions/atari-keep-the-tdu1-servers-online

now what?

 

[KS95]

Servers are closed mate.

Now... well we move on. It seems Atari, despite saying they had passed the idea on to the team, have decided to do nothing.

I recommend Forza Horizon.