Pokemon DS Wifi discontinued May 20th

• Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2014-03-30 03:05
  Nintendo is planning to terminate all online services for DS and Wii games on May 20, 2014. This will affect the following Pokemon games:
  •Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
  •Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver
  •Pokemon Black/White/Black 2/White 2
  •Pokemon Battle Revolution
  •Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky
  •My Pokemon Ranch
  •Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs
  •Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
  •Pokemon Conquest
  
  You will not be able to go online on any of the above games starting on May 20; it will not matter if you play a DS game on the 3DS (The online features will still be terminated for the DS game). Online services WILL still be accesible on all 3DS and Wii U games (This includes Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transporter).
  
  
  Copy/pasta from Marilland forums
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2014-03-30 05:04
  Already knew this weeks (or a week) ago.
• Taycat wrote on 2014-03-30 06:59
  I posted about this a month ago dude http://mabination.com/threads/78816-Nintendo-Shutting-Down-Online-Services-For-Wii-and-DS-in-May
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2014-03-30 08:15
  I don't want to necro an old topic so I'll post this here.
  The actual reason why they are discontinuing the service (not official, but surely proven by a bunch of observant people):
  
  http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997614-nintendo-3ds/68877403
  
  

  Megagunstarman posted...
  So I saw this posted on neogaf.
  
  http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=102550208&postcount=574
  
  Originally Posted by BumFrenzy of Reddit
  
  This is because Wii and DS online are using Gamespy technology for their matchmaking service.
  
  Unfortunately, Gamespy matchmaking was bought by Glu Mobile in August 2012. A bunch of games suddenly lost multiplayer matchmaking (Star Wars: Battlefront, Sniper Elite, Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Neverwinter Nights, etc.) without any notice. I imagine that Nintendo had contracts in place that made sure they couldn't shut down service until the contract had completed. My guess would be that Glu Mobile wanted to stop supporting Nintendo ASAP. I really doubt Nintendo would electively shut down service for Wii and DS unless they really had to.
  
  Not sure if this has been mentioned here but I saw it on Reddit.
  
  Didn't double check it because I'm lazy but this would be a pretty legitimate excuse if true.
  
  
  I decided to double check it and it turns out to be true.
  
  http://docs.poweredbygamespy.com/wiki/How_does_GameSpy_support_the_Nintendo_Wii_%26_DS%3F
  
  GameSpy is the default multiplayer middleware and backend services provider for both the Wii and DS platforms. Nintendo have provided standardized online multiplayer functionality the form of the 'DWC' wrapper class around our SDKs. Access to the DWC is available through your Nintendo account rep and comes at no extra licensing charge to you.
  
  Upon request from Nintendo, GameSpy will set up title specific access to our backend and Nintendo will manage all support for DWC issues to licensees via [email][email protected][/email].
  
  Developers and publishers can still license additional SDKs not incorporated into the DWC directly from GameSpy. Typically, this would be our Sake and ATLAS SDKs for advanced persistent storage and stats tracking/leaderboard functionality. Basic ranking functionality is offered through the DWC already; contact your account manager for details on that functionality.
  
  
  And with the recent sale of gamespy to GLU moble, online services using gamespy have been getting shut down.
  
  http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/07/2250252/gamespys-new-owners-begin-disabling-multiplayer-without-warning
  
  Seeing as how most Wii and DS games can't be patched, this can't be fixed.

• RicochetOrange wrote on 2014-03-30 14:17

  Quote from Yogurticecream;1211113:

  I don't want to necro an old topic so I'll post this here.
  The actual reason why they are discontinuing the service (not official, but surely proven by a bunch of observant people):
  
  http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997614-nintendo-3ds/68877403

  
  
  Didn't know that. o.o
  
  Glu is a dirty company, for this.
• Sapphireoath wrote on 2014-04-01 03:56
  Well now I know the reason for it, surprised they didn't have their own service. Silly move...
• Phunkie wrote on 2014-04-01 09:08

  Quote from RicochetOrange;1211148:

  Didn't know that. o.o
  
  Glu is a dirty company, for this.

  
  
  Technically, all wi-fi services have an expiration date.
  
  And they're not doing it for the money either. It's commonplace with online services for them to be deactivated as demand reaches minimal.
  
  Sony does this too. They just announced that they're doing it for Gran Turismo 5. Everyone does. The entire PS3 online will be gone in a few years.
  
  http://www.vg247.com/2014/01/06/sony-to-shut-down-multiplayer-severs-for-grand-turismo-5-resistance-series/