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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.
If it’s unsustainable for you, release the server and game source code for someone else to host it and patch it. Why waste developers’ time and effort into making of this game?!
It’s insane that this isn’t a requirement for shutting down/delisting a game.
Whose requirement? Government game laws? Just don’t play this garbage.
Yes.
From how I understand it, TenCent pulled funding in the studio as soon as the game didn’t hit its metric goals, they fired all but 11 people working on the game last month. If they have time to Port it, that would be awesome to make it open source, but I have a feeling the skeleton crew left probably doesn’t have the ability.
I expect whoever made the decision is embarrassed and don’t want a visible monument to their hubris.
Nothing to salvage from that mess of a live-service slop.