At the end of March 2024, we told you about Nintendo's announcement, who delivered news that made many players sad, announcing that they would turn off the online services of 3DS and Wii U. It was for this reason that many players of those consoles ran to play online for the last time, eight of them still being connected to the servers, preventing them from closing and in the process breaking a record held by the Halo 2 community.
And despite the fact that Nintendo eliminated the servers on April 8, 2024, these players have refused to turn off their consoles and have managed to stay online, preserving the multiplayer functionality of games like Pokémon XY, Mario Kart 7, Mario Maker , Xenoblade Chronicles X and the original Splatoon. According to YouTuber GaffsNotLaffs, who has been monitoring the status of these players, who among them They call themselves “The Crazy 8 of the Nintendo Network,” their achievement is particularly notable due to the length of their endurance.
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The last Halo 2 players, known as the Noble 14, held on to their original Xboxes for 25 days after the original Xbox Live shut down in 2010. By comparison, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U players have far surpassed that record, maintaining the connection for more than a month. In a recent X post, GaffsNotLaffs broke the news, saying: “They did it, everyone on this list has stayed online on the Nintendo Network longer after the original Xbox Live (server) went down in Halo 2.”
One of “The 8 crazy people of the Nintendo Network” could be connected to the server for ten years
Although this group of certain players have achieved an impressive record, their situation is not without frustrations, as some have reported connectivity issues and errors. In addition, to this is added another concern, such as the one recently reported that one of the players will have to address, who faces a map rotation that will not change in ten years.
It's about the player Lcd101, who has proven to be a faithful follower of Splatoon for the , who has managed to stay connected for so long that now Wii U, who stayed connected in the lobby of that game on that console, preventing the server where he is located from being closed forever . But as reported by a data analyst, who runs a website showing future map and mode rotations for all Splatoon games, as of April 30 at 2PM ET, map rotation was scheduled to last a full decade.
This means that if he continues with his campaign, this player will be in a kind of limbo for the next decade.
