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
Jun. 11, 2024They’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.
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.
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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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