Last Updated on May 30, 2025 @ 9:58:43 AM.
Change is inevitable, and Capcom is doing everything in its power to keep up with modern gaming trends, but Lost Planet 2 might suffer for it. There was a time not too long ago when the company spent a little extra to use Microsoft’s online service for the convenience of the player base, but that structure has been rendered obsolete. Games for Windows Live has been out of commission for a decade, but one popular game clung too hard, and the recent update caused major problems.
Capcom Ruined Lost Planet 2 With the Recent Update
The year was 2010, and Lost Planet 2 was released at a time when online multiplayer games were all the rage. The game was designed to be experienced with friends; however, it also featured limited single-player content for those who play solo.
Fans fell in love with the game’s variety of enemies and repetitive yet addictive combat system, especially with friends, and many believed it was the developers’ crown jewel for the co-op genre.
Capcom rolled out a new update that didn’t do the 15-year-old game any favors. The update removed the GFWL feature, making the game unplayable since players can’t access their old save files, and the online functionality has been removed entirely. It appears that the removal of Games for Windows Live had unexpected side effects that essentially ruined a game.
Perhaps Capcom is working behind the scenes to save the online multiplayer feature and integrate it with a modernized co-op structure that most games have today. This fiasco can be attributed to the experience of tampering with an older structure that wouldn’t survive today, and it serves as a lesson for other developers to future-proof their projects. Whether Capcom can find a way to fix Lost Planet 2 or not is left to be seen, but for such an old game, it’s unlikely, even if the devout fans do kick up a fuss.
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Rouvin Josef Quirimit is a Content Writer, an avid gamer (on his PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch), and film enthusiast. He was fortunate to grow up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was enamored by the storytelling of a shared universe full of heart and spectacle. His love for movies led him to great single-player games and he intends to cover major franchises for years to come!
