{"id":20056,"date":"2013-03-22T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=20056"},"modified":"2013-03-22T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:43:07","slug":"ascension-offline-next-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/03\/22\/ascension-offline-next-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascension offline next New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"20056\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sunset_imminent.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sunset_imminent.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset_imminent\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20057\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some sort of split between the developer and publisher of Ascension &#8212; I couldn&#8217;t care less about the particulars &#8212; the game will stop working online after next year.  You&#8217;ll be able to play against the AI, which is missing a setting that I&#8217;m guessing will still be missing when the game is switched off next year.  But as a multiplayer game, it will cease to exist.  It will be effectively EA&#8217;ed.  From a press release you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/blogpost\/18054\/quick-news-future-of-playdeks-ascension-nshex-for\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Stone Blade Entertainment launches Ascension Online on iOS (currently scheduled for July of 2014), Playdek&#8217;s Ascension iOS app will be removed from the app store, but Playdek will continue to support online play through the remainder of 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the developer (Stone Blade Entertainment is the new name for Ascension developer Gary Games) will sell you their game a second time, but the game you already bought will no longer work online.  Yet another nail in the coffin of the olden days when you could buy a game and be reasonably assured that it was yours to play in perpetuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ascension offline next New Year&#039;s Eve - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/03\/22\/ascension-offline-next-new-years-eve\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ascension offline next New Year&#039;s Eve - 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