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MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.

RuneScape Classic is sunsetting this August thanks to instability, bots, and bugs

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RuneScape has wound its way through many revisions and editions over the years, but Jagex usually left the original versions standing - or in...

Echo of Soul classic servers end their western run Wednesday, but you can still play the game

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Hope you got everything done you wanted to in Echo of Soul because the fantasy MMORPG is winding down its classic servers this Wednesday, May 23rd. According...
Oh look.

Boss Key shutters after Radical Heights, LawBreakers fizzle

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Boss Key is closing down following the struggles of LawBreakers and Radical Heights, though the latter will apparently remain playable for now. Cliff Bleszinski...
Cool, we get to live still!

Jagex shutters Chronicles: RuneScape Legends, Ace of Spades, and its FunOrb portal

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The developer Jagex is best known for various versions of RuneScape and shuttering any project that isn't RuneScape. Ace of Spades is shutting down...
Where the 'hood at.

The Daily Grind: How much does fear of an MMO shutdown affect your playtime?

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There are two basic reactions I've seen to people who fear that their favorite MMO is going to shut down. Not people who know,...

Perfect World is sunsetting Swordsman Online and Jade Dynasty as teams move on to ‘bigger and better things’

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Perfect World announced two sunsets yesterday: Four-year-old Swordsman Online and nine-year-old Jade Dynasty will close down in June. Here's the official announcement for Swordsman...
Bye Felicia

Elite: Dangerous is discontinuing support for the Mac [Updated]

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We're sorry to inform fans of Elite: Dangerous on Apple computers that they're soon going to be forced to choose between the platform and...
If at first you don't succeed, that means nothing now.

Echo of Soul closes its Classic servers on May 23

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It's been a while since we've talked about Echo of Soul, but it turns out that a lot has been happening with the game...

Ragnarok Online shuts down in Europe due to new regulations [Update: US servers blocking EU access]

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Update: This story was a miscommunication in the media. It turns out that while the servers are staying up, Ragnarok Online's North American servers...

Paragon artist shows off concept art from the doomed MOBA

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Perhaps because the announcement was all the way back in January, but Paragon's shutdown is scheduled to take place at the end of next...

Amazon Game Studio’s Breakaway is officially dead

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Last fall, we heard word that one of Amazon Game Studios' three announced online titles, Breakaway, was going into development hiatus. That didn't bode...

Devilian has officially sunsetted

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At some point, the ending credits have to roll. And Devilian's have started as of 3:00 p.m. EST today. Devil transformations are now a thing...
So, bye.

Demon’s Souls servers turn off tomorrow

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There's been a trend over the past several years of games that are not MMOs but still have a pretty robust suite of online...

Cabal 2 calls it quits in the west

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If you have any pressing business left in Cabal 2, don't put it off for too long. ESTsoft announced last week that it will...

Perpetuum Online developer: MMO felt like a ‘no-win scenario’

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At the end of the game's life, when the lights are going out and the developers drifting off to different positions, the most interesting...

EVE Online is shuttering EVE Voice in March

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More chunks of EVE Online are on the chopping block this week, as CCP announced today that it's sunsetting EVE Voice with the March...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO sunset had the biggest impact on you?

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If you've been playing MMOs long enough, you've probably lived through at least one sunset of a beloved game world. In fact, I bet...
I what

MMO devs discuss the painful process of shutting down online games

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Have you ever thought about what it is like for developers and community managers who handle online games that are being shut down? It's...

Minecraft developer announces the shutdown of card game Scrolls

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Minecraft developer Mojang revealed this week that it will be shutting down its online card game Scrolls on February 13th. This shouldn't come as...

Video game preservationists attempt to raise $450K to rez Marvel Heroes [Updated]

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(We've updated below with MMOBomb's detailed investigation into this Indiegogo - short story, don't go handing over your dough.) With Marvel Heroes dead and gone,...

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