Highguard will "permanently shut down" next week after "one final game update," dev confirms: "We have not been able to build a sustainable player base"
www.gamesradar.com
"Servers will remain online until March 12th"

Archived article: https://archive.md/HONwC

They’ll release one more update (my guess is whatever release-ready content they’ve already got), then the servers will shut down next Thursday.

“We don’t need player counts to be super huge in order to be successful” is starting to ring hollow.

  • red_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    2 million players gave the game a chance thanks to Geoff. I doubt the game would even get 1000 players if they decided to shadow drop it like they originally intended.

    The fact that they laid off most of their staff just weeks after release shows that they couldn’t afford a slow ramp up.