Perhaps one of our saddest traditions at the turn of every year is taking stock of all the MMOs we lost along the way. Unfortunately, 2022 ensured we said farewell to several good ones – Bluehole’s Elyon and TERA being chief among them. EVE Valkyrie, Crowfall, Forsaken World, Bless Unleashed on console, and Atlas Rogues were also taken offline, perhaps for the last time, while games like Red Dead Online and Heroes of the Storm were sentenced to maintenance mode. We even lost a few games before they were born, like Daybreak’s second go at a Marvel MMO and Blizzard’s Project Neptune.
And of course, we can hardly fail to mention the impending sunsets of all but one of Blizzard’s MMOs in China, though technically, they won’t go dark until next year.
On the plus side, we saw a few dead MMOs return to service, including Global Agenda, Echo of Soul, and Mythos, albeit in diminished capacities.
o7, old friends.
Star Trek Online community podcast Priority One Podcast decides to wrap up after 535 episodes
Eternal Magic, infamous for alleged plagiarism, has sunsetted as of today
The Xbox One era is finally, officially over, plus Halo 3 sunsets
Webzen is closing down five-year-old Mu Origin in the west
TERA is apparently sunsetting its Japanese servers in April
Global Agenda is back from the dead at least temporarily, Hi-Rez confirms
Sea of Thieves plans new content seasons for 2022 but sunsets arena mode
Kritika:REBOOT is shutting down on February 16
Element Quest is already sunsetting as devs lament a lack of players and funds
US Army mil-sim FPS America’s Army Proving Grounds announces a May 5 sunset
Just months after supposed angel investment, indie MMO TitanReach has ceased development – again
Post-apoc survival FPS Survarium will sunset in May after seven years in early access
Bethsoft is sunsetting its launcher, migrating libraries – including Fallout 76 – to Steam
The Daily Grind: What was the MMO shutdown that hurt you the most?
Elite Dangerous has fully canceled console development to prioritize PC
Ubisoft maintenance-modes Ghost Recon Breakpoint following failed NFT scheme
Mobile MMO Warhammer Odyssey is forced to sunset because of ‘malicious attacks’
Online TCG Spellweaver goes into maintenance mode following ‘final update’
TERA’s PC version will sunset in June as Bluehole ceases work on the game
Gearbox is sunsetting PWE’s Forsaken World on November 30
TERA turns on some rewarding events ahead of the game’s sunset next month
Scavengers enters PC maintenance mode and cans console development as its studio gets sold by Improbable
EG7 Q1 2022 financials: EG7 has canceled Daybreak’s Marvel MMORPG
Artist shares character creation screens from Daybreak’s nixed Marvel superhero MMO
Lord of the Rings Online is ending MacOS support on August 25
MGI & Gamigo Q1 2022: Atlas Rogues is dead
WoW Classic to retire 21 servers while Diablo II improves its lobby
Gamigo’s Echo of Soul will close July 15, though a new publisher could potentially take over
You can watch – but not play – TERA’s last quest before its shutdown
Former Gazillion CEO apologizes for Marvel Heroes’ chaotic 2017 shutdown
12-year-old MOBA Heroes of Newerth has officially sunsetted
Sci-fi MMOs Divergence Online and Otherland are finally taken off of sale from Steam
Lord of the Rings Online previews summer content and race/class combos, will sunset Anor server in August
Blizzard bought out Spellbreak’s Proletariat to shore up the World of Warcraft team
Say farewell to TERA – Gameforge and Bluehole sunset it tomorrow just before dawn
Pokemon Go’s Niantic scuttles four more gaming projects and lays off 85+ people
EVE Valkyrie gets an August 5 sunset date, begins the process of removing itself from digital store shelves
Rockstar Games outlines new content for GTA Online, confirms the end of major updates for Red Dead Online
Pearl Abyss will shutter ‘inadequate’ battle royale Shadow Arena in August
Blizzard shifts Heroes of the Storm into maintenance mode, gives lizards to all
Ubisoft plans to yank multiplayer from 15 more of its games this fall as devs scramble to preserve them
Gearbox shuts down game forums in favor of Discord, but Cryptic’s MMOs are not affected
Blizzard-NetEase financing dispute leads to canceled Warcraft mobile MMO ‘Neptune’
CCP Games’ VR multiplayer game aspirations expire as EVE Valkyrie, Sparc, and EVE Gunjack go dark
The Chinese version of the Life is Feudal MMO will be shut down in October
Maplestory 2 announces a shutdown date for its Chinese server in November
Bless Unleashed on console becomes the latest Bless title to shut down
Ubisoft delays sunsetting some online games – including Anno 2070
Elyon, once hotly anticipated as Ascent Infinite Realm, is sunsetting in December
Krafton has put Thunder Tier One into maintenance mode after less than a year
Babylon’s Fall is shutting down on February 27
Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date
Echo of Soul comes back to the west once again as Echo of Soul Ragnarok thanks to a new publisher
Flagship’s dead MMO Mythos is back as a single-player RPG from Hellgate owner Hanbitsoft
CEO of Platinum Games on Babylon’s Fall: ‘Live service games are definitely something we do want to do’
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier is shutting down in January after less than a year of operation
Electronic Arts will sunset multiplayer servers for a wide assortment of classic games this year
Epic Games MOBA Paragon is resurrected as Paragon The Overprime under Netmarble’s oversight
Valofe resurrects the sunsetted Diablo-like MMO Cronous in a Steam re-release
Crowfall is going offline on November 22, supposedly for further development work
Vague Patch Notes: Alas, poor Crowfall, you’re gone now
SWGEmu sunsets the original Basilisk server, but Finalizer is going strong
WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal
Crowfall goes dark today with a slim hope of a future return
Gamigo silently pulled Aura Kingdom off Steam after months of payment issues
PvPvE survival shooter Scavengers goes from maintenance mode to sunsetted on December 16
Forsaken World officially sunsets, but there’s already a private server available
Elyon prepares to sunset in Korea following its western shutdown
Google Stadia hardware refunds have begun rolling out following its cancelation
