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.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    And yet Helldivers 2 comes out in 2024 and sets the world on fire. Seems to me that gaming is perfectly fine with live service as long as it’s in line with community expectations and not s soulless cash grab.

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Highguard’s leadership and at least one of their former devs said they were making this game in order to line their pockets.

      They really never mentioned wanting to make a great game because they love these type of games.

      It was they want a bigger piece of the pie and these games generate lots of revenue.