Highguard, the live-service shooter that debuted at The Recreation Awards, goes to close down completely this month.
“Regardless of the eagerness and laborious work of our workforce, we’ve got not been in a position to construct a sustainable participant base to assist the sport long run,” mentioned the builders in a message posted to their social media pages.
The sport launched to a powerful Steam participant rely of over 100k concurrent gamers plus all these throughout console, however regardless of being free-to-play the numbers started to drop quick. Layoffs had been introduced on the workforce, however folks hoped these had been the common type of layoffs that usually happen after a undertaking is accomplished. Now, although, we all know completely different.
The sport will formally shut its doorways on March 12, a mere 46 days after it launched. This implies it did last more than Harmony, the multi-million greenback catastrophe from Sony that crashed and burned so brightly that aliens on one other planet needed to placed on sun shades.
One final replace will launch for the sport immediately or tomorrow which is able to add an entire new playable character, proper earlier than you may’t play it anymore.
The sport has had a bizarre time of it. Geoff Keighley appreciated it a lot that he requested to make use of it because the final sport to be proven at The Recreation Awards, a stark distinction to how the developer initially deliberate on shadow-dropping it. That gave it a large viewers, however sadly folks weren’t pleased with the reveal. Nonetheless, it helped it drawn in some good opening numbers. Clearly, although folks weren’t excited by sticking round. There was a little bit of a web-based development towards hating it, one thing we’re seeing with…properly, the whole lot today. However even with out that, it’s apparent that Highguard was most likely by no means going to outlive on this cutthroat market.
