PS3 Online in 2023: It's Getting Worse... And Better?

ah there she is my cap and also PlayStation you know how to walk off that thing PlayStation 3. All right so let me just do the intro then since she borked it up PS3 online in 2023 you know what we're gonna do here we're gonna play a bunch of games see how many active lobbies and communities that we can run into and just see what's up and I think you'll find that this year we're running into a thing where games are getting both easier and harder to play and that might sound a bit weird but I think you'll see what I mean when you see this year's results [Music] MW3 let's go I think I'm on my other account actually I am I only have I'm only rank one 576 players online I think that was like around what it was last time was it not what's up what's going on yep yo what's up brother hey what's up what's going on man were you just having fun on a Saturday night you know how it is oh my God my controller the middle what's wrong with your controller PS4 controller oh was it broken he had three controls yeah they don't charge one of the other nights and I went to turn to shoot somebody in the PS4 controller is so sensitive it's nice yeah I need to hit up GameStop if those people exist Ence I don't know games would even have a PS3 controller eBay once parlay hits 45k I'll just buy me a new one [Laughter] Black Ops 2 we got 363 total it looks like oh yeah I forgot this this is what happened with Black Ops 2 last last year and I I totally forgot that it's still this the stuff which basically makes the game unplayable yeah look at this guy they're all doing it oh what is this uh PS3 online 2023 who's still playing and why well because you can cheat in Black Ops 2. that's why World at War let's see what's popping off in this bad boy huh 120 players online for World at War it ain't much but it's honest there's people playing but I'm by myself and everyone oh they're back [Laughter] you're not gonna you're stuck with me I don't know what you're expecting here I'll see you again hey hello welcome back because I don't see you see you again hey hey hey oh hey chem xl350 hold on my mic's not even on Kim don't go don't go Kim Kim please stay Kim Kim oh Kim stay Kim please don't leave Kim you gotta I'm begging you to give me a chance I'm begging you Kim is it what did I do Kim just just relax hang out with me is it because I'm level seven is that the reason I don't even want you here go leave I'm done I don't yeah that's what I thought cam I think you and me would make a great team skull Seeker hey this is Kim they don't want to stay for whatever reason you're telling me now they want to ready up are you serious Kimmy you're a hypocrite I don't even know if I feel safe having you on my team oh it's always hazel look out for Kim they're unreliable to say the least number one priority right now get the ray gun this is my singular last attempt at the box for a while oh I got it baby ray gun oh yeah I'm screwed if I run out of ammo on this thing aren't I everyone's like oh great uh the worst guy on the team got the ray gun well Kim you were right to be skeptical of us of me I should say yeah made a valiant effort Need for Speed Rivals so this is the last Need for Speed game that released on PlayStation 3 before they won full PS4 and Xbox One so should be good a lot of Need for speeds went offline last year so it's just Rivals and Most Wanted I believe that are still online this is one of those things where I'm not sure if it's just me because there's no players or it's just me because I haven't played far enough in the game yet don't worry I'm pit certified okay we're finally in and there are players so yeah you you did have to finish the uh little intro there but there's there's drivers up in here let's see look at that I made a friend just good old driving around it's the weekend having fun maybe hit the beach maybe put lotion on each other I don't know I mean we're just I'm just spitballing here but you know we're just having fun this is a brand new sealed copy of Dirt 3 complete edition on PS3 very important and uh loose desk but let me tell you what's going on with this game so it should still be online but this is something where the game is from that era of online passes and at least on PS3 this was never something where the online pass was removed not put on PSN for free and not put on PSN to buy as far as I know it was never on PSN but either way it's not on there now so if you want to play it online you have to be an original owner that bought it back then Dirt 3 base copies if you somehow have one new or have a code that you know has not been redeemed those codes are expired however I found one little look of evidence on PSN profiles one person said complete edition copies have working codes even if it's expired sometimes codes when there's an expiration date they do still redeem sometimes so I made a little Gamble we'll see what happens I really hope this works if not this footage is still getting used because it really highlights just how dumb online passes were back then Redemption expiry date 2016. I redeemed a code recently that was expired in 2018 and that was back in that was recent that was last year and it still worked so we'll see [Music] God the question or the the check mark that's good oh it went through we're playing dirt three online boys this this is wild man oh it oh no the code you entered may not be correct or may no longer be valid wow well that's the first time I've uh learned that which is that PSN will recognize what you're trying to redeem I did not know it would I've never seen that before that I really did not expect that it would recognize the content but tell you no you're not you're not getting it wow oh man what a bummer I really want to play Dirt three so not only are we still dealing with the repercussions of online passes but this is also a good time to highlight platform differences because the Xbox 360 version which is also playable on Xbox One series SX via backwards compatibility I'm not sure what they're doing exactly if it's something where the online pass is disabled or if they they pull it automatically as a download in the background and you don't see it but the game is still playable online there which is good but something where it just highlights why these things were so annoying we're not sure if it's more of a Sony issue or codemasters probably a little bit of both with them not wanting to do maintenance on an old game and maybe you can't release packages on the PS3's PlayStation store anymore I don't know but that's why these things always sucked I don't know why but this game just does not want to Output any audio to this monitor so enjoy some generic Plants vs Zombies music I don't know what to expect out of this one Welcome Matt Vanquish Gardens and graveyards team Vanquish there's a lot of modes looking looking for really great game sessions really good ones I remember when this was first revealed and it was like what are you guys doing you made a third person shooter Plants vs Zombies game and then it came out and everyone's like no no it's it's actually kind of fun this this is my first time playing it so it does seem okay oh okay interesting interesting oh yeah okay oh yeah definitely we got people we got people okay oh yeah it's kind of fun it's silly but it works I probably could have got into this if I had bought it I bought it at the time I'm pretty sure when I checked EA site it said Skate 3 was offline but I I feel like that's not that's that's not true [Music] how about just an unranked quick match [Music] yeah what's going on my man hear me I can hear you okay this is my first time I'm still trying to figure this game out do you have a PS3 controller or a PS4 controller oh I got a PlayStation 3 controller okay why is PS4 better uh they're about to save PS4 a little more stealthier you've been playing this game for a while yeah how about six over years veteran player I still gotta learned kick slips and nollies and but my son over here playing his PS5 he said fortnite he said he's talking I can't even know I got one game I'm playing this and he said he said five Fortnight tropical experience and I'm in here I don't like that fortnite I can't really get into it either okay yeah we got we got people up in skate 3 big time not nothing crazy but enough to get the game going Mass Effect 3 this is a game that is from the online pass yesteryears and uh oh okay this is this is my original copy so I I have the online pass but EA I know a long time ago uh like a few other publishers did the right thing at the time by not only not doing this anymore but making these games free so I don't know if you have to grab the license or what this account is currently invalid okay I didn't even try to do anything is that because I can just jump right in oh for crying out loud what does that even mean my this account is currently invalid what does that even mean multiplayer expansion I I might have to grab these because what wouldn't the player pool be split if some of these things are like new maps or something ah okay sure using the EA account that you've used to play Mass Effect 3. okay forgot your password my password has been changed now I got a very verify my email after already resetting my password oh it needs to be resynced to fix this problem excellent I will do that I would like to play this game online all right I've got all the downloadable content let's go I'm ready to play just give me a game oh wow that was that was fast I'll tell you it it took a bit but you can do it it's it's still working got some uh got the homies in here playing some Mass Effect 3. could do some trophy hunting it still works well I'll tell you there's a a right way and a wrong way to abandon these older titles with their online support right and the right way would be to make sure that the online pass is turned off or it's free to download make all the the extra maps and all that stuff free as well I don't even know if you had to pay for it before but it's free now so you know there is a right way to do it instead of leaving it kind of all messed up and having to pay for things again so it seems like people are still on here having fun Batman Arkham Origins this will be the first time we're going to try this one so let's see is this game offline I thought it was online I thought it was still good could not be established that that sounds like a server shutdown notice well not a notice but the behavior you would you would get if it was offline get out of here so I'm on PSM profiles and there's a thread that says how to access online I got the error that comes up this dude says stay on the online start menu for 30 minutes then after 30 minutes Press Start and you're in this is how me and my friends have been doing it to get online to get the to get the dreaded online trophies I've been doing this for a long time now this this is like the fourth or fifth year we've done this the private server games are easier to jump into it this is strange these these games are left to rot for the few ones that are still working okay I guess I'll wait and see if I can get in [Music] I can't believe this is gonna go through no it didn't go through I was a Believer there for a second God damn it it's been 35 minutes I've served I've served my time let me in I am determined to get this to work all right I'm gonna close the game and make sure with a stopwatch that I'm just over 30 minutes so let's try that thank you 30 minutes right away immediately oh it doesn't look like this is gonna happen I I can't get on it's just not letting me but from what I can see it's totally playable although I think it would be safe to assume it's only for Trophy Hunters so hey Assassin's Creed IV let's do it detecting my Uplay passport and my season pass both of which I do not have I hit multiplayer and it's just a black screen every game just doesn't work the first time what is what is happening please work please don't tell me the game locked up again oh my God dude what is what what is wrong with this game what if I just want to play single player even even that doesn't work how did I get to the menu the first time and then I and then I can't now I can't get to it at all somebody on gamefaq says it has to do with being online when you launch the game I'll sign out launch the game and see if we can then sign in and play after that now I'm going to sign in and now I'd like to play some multiplayer oh there's there's there there are people in here okay after all that and I'm sure they they know exactly what to do and how to get this game going and avoid all the lock-ups the game session is about to start I'd love to believe you oh here we go hide to score just blend in with the humans I got got pretty quick didn't I oh we won I'm sure I played a role in that now look PlayStation 3 is a 16 year old console of course games are shutting down or they're already shut down long ago but there is a Tipping Point happening right now where more games are coming back via Revival groups we've looked at PlayStation online emulated there's also PS rewired and both have brought back resistance ball of man via private servers our group is PS rewired I'm Kerberos of the group I do a lot of the you know heavy back-end engineering and stuff and work with one up which some people in the community will know him probably better than me but him and I found it PS rewired and had been working on these private servers right now as it sits today we have over 60 PS2 and PSP games working that doesn't include any PS3 stuff on the PS3 side of things we currently host uh resistance fall of Man Motor Storm Pacific Rift the original MotorStorm as well as Killzone 2. I love this track it was a lot of fun jumping back into MotorStorm Pacific Rift especially when you consider the time between its closure to now but therein lies a problem with restoring these games yeah so the I guess to give a little bit of background the the protocol infrastructure that's used for a lot of the first party Sony titles has actually went back to like almost almost 1999 and they built their online infrastructure for the original Socom 1 game as well as Twisted Metal black online they evolved it all the way up through the PS3 era so you've got you know a bunch of different hoops and I don't think I've ever worked on a single one where I just plug it in and it just works there's always something that that game does that's different than everything else and you're always just chasing those Phantoms around in every game that you work on we're just a group of hobbyists right you know we don't we don't know what Sony was doing back then and you know some of the features will use things that aren't quite there or you know maybe the game is in a completely playable state but you know maybe the leaderboards aren't aren't aren't active at that point or something you know it it's a continuing effort but why keep the fans from being able to play the games if there's one broken feature another problem with a lot of Revival projects is these games are old and the whole packet capturing scene didn't really take off until later on so a lot of the data that these games use just does not exist so again it comes down to interpretation or it may work slightly different than it did back in the day if anyone catches wind then a server is going to be shutting down or something it's always great to capture as much as you can you know the more data that's there the more data that we have access to to be able to recreate any of those online experiences as close to original as possible and it always helps and it's a huge asset in a lot of ways ah that sucks I mean obviously you know the stuff the stuff takes time if you do connect to these servers just know that they're not complete there are still problems that exist you know maybe there's a bug somewhere or whatever it may be but we're working really hard to try to provide the best experience provide a free experience for everybody to really enjoy this stuff and it takes time and any feedback is is definitely appreciated and if any anyone has any additional information about a game that may not be known about please step forward what yeah that's that's Motor Storm I want to thank Kerberos for speaking with me and after spending some time on PS rewired I decided to switch over to PS1 servers where they had restored SOCOM confrontation a while back and this game is pretty active one where you can seemingly jump in at a moment's notice oh there's two full games going I kind of don't want to be in there because that's going to be I'm I would I'm a liability I don't want to mess things up I actually got somebody which I was not expecting at all that was pretty bold of me you're right into the uh the the den of the anime sounds about right six deaths one kill I'm feeling good about it feeling good about it what 2023 and I have to update my PS3 if I want to play online what are the odds of this coming up while I'm doing this at this point for Grand Theft Auto 4 I'm just hoping there's something in here that's uh more than what we normally see which is a bunch of modding all right so I found one person that just keeps cycling through all the duration options oh hello okay all right popping off already pretty good a lot of people still Grand Theft Auto 4 is Fairly reliable got him okay well nothing else appears to be happening here outside of just some players not even not even being on and this guy trying to kill me oh there was only one year where somebody was using a mica on GTA 4 and that was the first year I think every other time nobody else was using one I feel like playing Dead Space 3 Co-op right now so let's try and find a partner I'd actually played This original copy when it came out on this account and that also means this online pass is still on here and I assume they turned it off though so it shouldn't matter I don't know why it says my NAT type is strict I don't think it is I'll have to double check because that could be interfering with some of these games that I'm trying quick match attempt failed to find a match why you know I was hoping with the release of the Dead Space remake that um the game would see like a small booster shot nothing crazy not talking about hundreds of people lining up in droves to play dead space three and two but I thought maybe I'd have a chance but no Team Fortress 2 uh so this game is going offline very soon unfortunately March 28th oddly enough on EA site it's listed as Half-Life 2 but you know that's part of The Orange Box and there's only one there's only one online game on there it's it's Team Fortress 2. such an iconic game uh recently a Community member reached out we looked at this game a few years ago so somebody on the Discord uh reached out and said hey you know the game's going offline soon so had to play with the community one last time I don't know why I didn't play more of this game back then it's it's a lot of fun but that goes to show why it's still so popular because it's it's aged so well so whether you're playing it on PC 360 or in this case PS3 still a lot of fun but that's the amazing thing I find about Team Fortress 2 on Playstation 3. this is you know hate to say it but this is not the best version of the game to play so there's so many PS3 games that have gone offline before this you know a 2007 era game that was you know kind of a shafted Port it just is certainly in this in the eyes of the PC and 360 version so it's just wild that they you know the game's been able to go this long on PS3 Red Dead Redemption let's go write an online because I know we're about to find people right away well would you look at this we got a little uh standoff going on how did I make it how did I make it out of that as far as I did gee whiz I was just trying to I was just trying to check a different mode okay so I just did gang matches casual matches and it was uh sure it seems like red Dead's pretty active more active than GTA 4. at least every time I check in which which is surprising to me I feel like Grand Theft Auto would have more appeal but either way it's good okay yeah it's just me in here so you're gonna find people in free roam a quick match of course which is going to lead you to I assume gang matches or or these sort of free-for-all matches I I gotta you gotta figure that these are are probably pretty dead and oh another free realm with a ton of people this is way more active than Grand Theft Auto 4 every time I check GTA 4. so I mean you're golden with this game golden especially since it seems like there is no remake or remaster coming in the near future thank you so much for watching I'll leave some links down below for the private server groups of PS1 and also PS rewired if you want to jump back into some of these older games it's always fun and uh usually with these larger uploads we have some deleted scenes on patreon so there's a lot of footage here that did not make the final cut and any support on patreon will grant you access to that and all the prior deleted scenes videos behind the scenes posts and quarterly q and A's that we do we're due for another one fairly soon but uh you know any support always helps not necessary though but there's that and you could also uh if you haven't just yet subscribe for the best PlayStation news reviews and updates that are here on YouTube You could also follow me on Twitter at Mystic Ryan and that is it I will see you all in my next video you take it easy foreign [Music]

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Length: 31min 38sec (1898 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 14 2023