Killzone: Mercenary multiplayer servers are back online

Over the weekend reports of the multiplayer servers for Killzone Mercenary had been shut down by Sony came out.  However, usually when Sony is going to shut down the servers of a game the company puts out an announcement through its game servers site, but it seemed that Killzone Mercenary’s multiplayer servers had been turned off with no notice to players, and it was not listed on the list on Sony’s server shutdown site.

[time2die]

Seriously does anyone actually still play a Playstation Vita...?

[Nyxus]

Yep!

[Abnor_Mal]

Yes, especially when I'm at an appointment sitting in the waiting room.

[SonyStyled]

Yea, played 3mp games in Killzone mercenary last week. I haven’t played it in a bit otherwise. I still have Severed in my backlog but I’ve been chipping at the ps3 backlog this past year. Obviously there isn’t too many new games I’m interested in but frequently sales have games for under $1 so I’ll buy and play as things come up in the store

[NecrumOddBoy]

I platinum'd Severed. It was super awesome!

[Good-Smurf]

Still play Killzone Mercenary and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed on it.
But I mostly use it for browsing Pixiv.

[IanTH]

Just to add to the chorus, "yes!"

Got it sitting in its charging cradle (alongside several other older handhelds) for whenever the mood strikes. It isn't a daily thing, but it still gets used. Great handheld that passed before its time.

[UltraNova]

It was criminally overlooked. It was the Switch before the Switch. A perfect storm of things against it at the time.

It's sad that Sony gave up on it and handhelds thereafter...

[AnotherGamer]

Yep, I still play it. Your problem?

[meganick]

You’re living in the past. Trade it in for a Switch ya schmuck.

[Pughski]

Nope. I don't believe anyone that says so.

[SegaSaturn669]

Playstation vita just had a very good n64 emulator released for it, and there's an upcoming dreamcast emulator.

Also just released was Noboru, a phenomenal manga/comic reader.

[meganick]

This is why Sony handhelds fail, because people use them to play free roms and don’t actually buy software.

[kayoss]

i do. Its a great handheld. unfortunately, Sony dont give it the support it should have deserved and the Remote play with PS4 is horrible. Especially with the button layout on the PS Vita for certain games that required all the buttons that are on the Dual Shock.

[JonTheGod]

Me

[TheGamez100]

Great place for jrpgs, indies, and emulation. Remote plays great too. I can see many still playing or finally picking it up for the good library it has.

[Rangerman1208]

Yep. Me lol.

[mynameisthumper]

Yep, and PSP too! I'll keep repairing them and playing them until I can't anymore. Also, isn't it kinda interesting that for a site full of PS love, most Playstation fans seem to hate Vita? They can't have ALL played it and decided it was bad...right? Just sounds like a group mentality of hate towards an amazing system. Such a shame :/

[Profchaos]

Own both loved my PSP easily the best handheld I've played but my Vita I used it mostly for remote play ultimately I was disappointed with the quality of the releases most of my legit gameplay was on PS1 emulation.

Only after homebrew did the vita become special with games like half life being playable

[Profchaos]

Actually on the odd occasion I boot it up

[rainslacker]

I do.

[Aghashie]

I still do.

Lots of cheap games on Amazon.

I have the first model that came with a SIM card. Still working like a charm. I just feel "incomplete" if I left home without it. Seriously.

[cosmicjest]

Sony's *usually* good with providing notice way ahead of time for stuff like this. Still, I'm always surprised to fire up Mercenary and find people in surplus.

[Rangerman1208]

Same. Before Sony decides to turn off the servers, I'll be booting this game soon.

[Majin-vegeta]

Someomes shirt got caught on the on/off switch😂

[neutralgamer1992]

What but but Sony is the baddest they turn off without notice where are all those with fake anger haha

I never got to play this game because I didn't have a vita I wish it was playable on ps3

[JonTheGod]

Maybe PS5.... 😏

[Silly gameAr]

Seems like somebody made a knee jerk reaction article a little to fast the other day.

[The Wood]

c'mon now...Some people need negative nutrition to live

[L7CHAPEL]

no, it wasn't knee jerk it was thought out.
@razzerRedux, no you guys handle all of those,"negatives"
even though you don't really give a shit about the system, it's just a self touting thing.
I was doing the opposite, pointing out one of the things, hypocritically that are ignored, just one of them, I don't have all day.
but you inadvertently made my point for me,
so I thank you for that
😉👍

[Pughski]

Nooooobody cares about this game

[AuraAbjure]

Best Killzone ever.

[AuraAbjure]

Merked KZM multiplayer so hard. I would get MVP like half the time after practicing for like half a year. I would use the 1 - shot sniper with the incendiary shotgun and the flying drone perk. The cluster missle perk was good too.

[Dabigsiebowski]

Jim Ryan sucks already. Give Shawn the position!

[contra157]

Wow that’s great news ! Nothing should be shut down if people still enjoying

[TheHan]

Ok 👍🏻

[AuraAbjure]

The touchpad melee combat and the motion control while in ADS was so lit.

[AuraAbjure]

To correct myself it was touchscreen melee combat, motion control aiming while in ADS, and touchpad zooming while in ADS.

[Avalanche]

fantastic game.

[Profchaos]

Said they would be back online it was probably a unplanned outage and copped hate now it's back online.

[Games1st]

Sold Vita, fun game.