LogFAQs > #975209791

Oh, I didn't even know that they were taken down. I did know that a vulnerability was recently discovered in many Wii U/3DS games that allowed hackers to get into your system just be being connected to the internet while playing those games, even if you aren't playing online, but I thought they had all been fixed.

I was actually also aware that Splatoon 1 does indeed still have a small but active playerbase in 2023, though I'm guessing this might have more or less killed it.

I guess the most interesting thing to me is that they actually took the effort to fix these issues and put the games back online, meaning they likely have no plans to permanently shut down the servers anytime in the near future. If they did, they probably would have just let them die here and now.