It’s the end of the road for Zenith, more or less, as its small indie team announced that the virtual reality MMO is going into maintenance mode going forward. This comes as little surprise, as the studio admitted that the game was running at a loss at the start of this year. Even the launch of an OARPG spin-off, Zenith Infinite Realms, wasn’t able to turn the fortune of this project around.
“Zenith has struggled with retaining players since very early on,” Ramen VR said. “Even though we’ve had hundreds of thousands of players, the vast majority of them stopped playing Zenith after about a month. Despite our best efforts over the 5.5 years of development (and well before Infinite Realms launched), we weren’t able to improve retaining players.”
The studio said that next month’s Season 4 will be the final one for Infinite Realms and come with a bug fix patch for both titles. Ramen VR acknowledged that these titles will be shut down at some point but is currently committed to running them “for the foreseeable future.”
Ramen VR now turns its attention to other projects, although the studio declined to announce what was next quite yet.
