Highguard, the live-service shooter that debuted at The Sport Awards, goes to close down completely this month.
“Regardless of the fervour and onerous work of our workforce, we’ve got not been capable of construct a sustainable participant base to assist the sport long run,” stated the builders in a message posted to their social media pages.
The sport launched to a robust Steam participant depend 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 form of layoffs that always happen after a challenge 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 as we speak or tomorrow which can add an entire new playable character, proper earlier than you’ll be able to’t play it anymore.
The sport has had a bizarre time of it. Geoff Keighley preferred it a lot that he requested to make use of it because the final sport to be proven at The Sport Awards, a stark distinction to how the developer initially deliberate on shadow-dropping it. That gave it an enormous viewers, however sadly folks weren’t proud of the reveal. Nonetheless, it helped it drawn in some good opening numbers. Clearly, although folks weren’t inquisitive about sticking round. There was a little bit of a web based development towards hating it, one thing we’re seeing with…effectively, the whole lot lately. However even with out that, it’s apparent that Highguard was in all probability by no means going to outlive on this cutthroat market.