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.

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    released […] on January 26, 2026. The studio has announced that the game will be shutting down on March 12, 2026.

    What the fuck is happening in “triple-a” game dev world?

    • Jako302@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      These games are build with a budged so high they either have to rival overwatch in its glory days or they get scrapped and written off as a loss since they will never be profitable.

      Triple A studios have arrived in the corporate world a while ago were long term profits are irrelevant if your quarterly earnings aren’t what the investors want.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Gambling, pretty much. They go all in on a bet that it will explode and make tons of money, take out loans based on that expectation, setting themselves in a position where either it is a major success or it is an utter failure, no in between.

      The gaming market is so saturated these days that it’s kinda baffling this approach is still being taken. Like I hadn’t even heard of this game before this.