MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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Gameforge is sunsetting the western version of SoulWorker as the original dev promises a new global version
Bad news for western SoulWorker players today: Gameforge has announced that it will no longer be running the game in Europe and North America,...
A new version of the long-sunsetted MMORPG Shadowbane has landed on Steam
Shadowbane has had one of the strangest journeys of an MMORPG over the past two decades. Originally launched in the early 2000s, the PvP-centric...
Battleborn has officially shut down completely
We're sorry to inform you that if there were things you still wanted to do in Battleborn, you have missed your chance. Like, completely....
The Daily Grind: How do you handle MMO sunsets?
You probably read the news over the holidays that Zynga finally shut the original FarmVille down, owing to the deprecation of Flash and development...
The Daily Grind: Do shutdown fears influence your MMO play habits?
It's hard to ignore the long-term health of a game when it comes time to play an MMO. If one of the big elements...
Players of Life is Feudal MMO share their thoughts and final moments before the game’s sunset
This past December, we reported on the news that the MMO version of Life is Feudal was closing up shop on January 18th. In...
Hi-Rez’s Paladins ends its esports program: ‘It’s time to close this chapter’
This can't be a good sign for competitive shooter Paladins: Hi-Rez announced this week that it has decided not to go forward with a...
The Xbox 360 servers for Halo multiplayer will be shutting down at the end of 2021
All right, it's time to face facts. If you've still been playing Halo 3: ODST multiplayer on your now-ancient Xbox 360, that hardware is...
Kickstarted Jane Austen MMORPG Ever, Jane closed its doors over the holidays
Well crap - just when we thought we'd escaped 2020 without too many MMO sunsets, another one sneaks in at the last minute to...
Guild Wars 2 ends Mac support February 18 thanks to Apple OpenGL issues
If anyone reading this is a player of Guild Wars 2 on a Mac, then we've got some bad news for you: ArenaNet has...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2020
I'm happy to report that the list of MMOs that sunsetted in 2020 was shorter than in previous years, but I'm sure you'll join...
Minecraft Earth is sunsetting in June due to the inability for people to play in-person together
With global lockdown restrictions seemingly on the road to getting worse and not better due to the pandemic and the events of the past...
The Stream Team: Farewell 2020, farewell HEX — a sunset stream
Massively OP's MJ is getting quite annoyed that the games she really likes in genres she wouldn't normally play keep going away. Such is...
Life is Feudal MMO announces imminent closure, cites ‘reasons beyond [its] control’
Enjoy this Christmas, Life is Feudal, because it will be your last.
The Life is Feudal team made the shocking announcement on Friday that it...
The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2020?
We've had some brutal years for MMORPG sunsets. But surprisingly, this wasn't one of them. I mean, yes, we lost games, but not as...
Netmarble’s mobile TERA Origin to close down in Japan
Oh you can give me all the big wet lavender anime eyes you want, banner girl, but your game is doomed. DOOMED, I say!
The...
Atlas Reactor’s revival is actually a story-driven co-op game that was part of original prototyping
Gamigo surprised a lot of gamers this week when a number of confirmed Twitter accounts started stirring the pot for a return of Atlas...
StarCraft II officially ends development as Blizzard ‘thinks about what’s next’
Earlier this year, MOP's Tyler noted that StarCraft II had quietly become Blizzard's best-managed game, with updates and events rolling out even a decade...
‘Welcome back Freelancers’: It looks like Gamigo might be reviving Atlas Reactor
The date is June 28th, 2019. It's the crack of dawn. And Gamigo has just sunsetted Atlas Reactor, one of the multiple Trion Worlds...
Perfect Ten: 10 notable MMO developers that shut their doors
When En Masse Entertainment announced that it would be closing its doors this fall, we here at Massively OP came to the realization that...
