Cal Ripken's Real Baseball shut down

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Cal Ripken's Real Baseball shut down

Posted Oct 3rd 2008 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: MMO, Sports

Earlier this week we reported on the upcoming shut down of the free-to-play MMO RF Online. Now another long running small scale persistent online game has apparently shut its doors but has given no explanation as to what happened. That game is Cal Ripken's Real Baseball, the MMO-like online baseball game that for several years was known as Ultimate Baseball Online.

The game launched in beta format in 2004 and was rebranded as Cal Ripken's Real Baseball in 2007. However the game's web site now simply states, "The service for Cal Ripken's Real Baseball is currently halted until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience." Furthermore the developer/publisher of the game, Netamin, has vanished as well with its web site now leading to one of those "Site under construction" pages. Simply put it looks like it's the game is over and the lights in the stadium have been turned off.

[Via Blue's News]

Tags: cal-ripkens-real-baseball, netamin, ultimate-baseball-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

i hope it comes backPosted at 7:43PM on Oct 6th 2008 by adrian

i cant beleive its downPosted at 7:03PM on Oct 7th 2008 by y

Why did u shut it down?? im so madPosted at 7:41PM on Nov 2nd 2008 by Ben

I've been a UBO/RBO player since 2006. I loved every minute of play time in this game and can't wait for it to return someday. There has been some rumors going about that it will return sometime in 2009. I hope so i miss all the friends and players I met in the field and dugout. I even created my own team called Crusifix we were just starting to accomplish all that was needed. If any of you are reading this that was on the team I miss you guys and hope one day I see you again.Posted at 6:23PM on Dec 30th 2008 by CField

cfield, i hope u remeber me, and i better 1 of those friends u were talking bout, i wasnt on crusifix, but we were 1ce teammates.

btw, MyBoy14 wasnt my rbo name, lets see if u can figure it out

Posted at 3:05PM on Dec 31st 2008 by MyBoy14