MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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After 14 years, Enjin drops guild site building tools in favor of blockchain and NFT tech
It has been a very long time since the name of Enjin crossed our minds. Long-time MMORPG gamers will recognize it as a service...
Kakao’s mobile MMO Moonlight Sculptor is closing down in May after less than two years online
At 4:20 a.m. EST this morning, Kakao and XL Games announced that Moonlight Sculptor's global servers are set for demolition in multiple regions just...
Square-Enix’s Babylon’s Fall went out with the wimpiest of whimpers
How do you imagine your favorite online service game going dark? Hopefully it's with bittersweet parties among the faithful community and massive end-of-game events...
RF Online’s western version has been sunsetted thanks to an apparent contract issue
News coming out of the sci-fi MMO RF Online has mostly been a trickle of headlines - the last report involved Korean developer CCR...
Natural Selection 2 enters maintenance mode, Spellbreak returns as an official ‘community version’
We once more have to report on some semi-sunsets in our corner of the gaming sphere, although as the headline suggests, it's not all...
Mobile co-op multiplayer RPG Echoes of Mana announces a May 15 sunset
Echoes of Mana is not a game that we've really touched on here but it does fall within our sphere of interest: The mobile...
Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode will get one last major patch that adds new mercs, mechanics, and endgame
If you're a regular player of the Mercenaries game mode in Hearthstone, then we have good news and bad news: The game is going...
World of Warcraft is shutting down its integrated Twitter posting feature
One of the very first stories we covered when Old Massively became Overpowered was World of Warcraft's Twitter integration implementation. It seems like yesterday,...
Rumbleverse and Knockout City announce sunsets, Back 4 Blood announces maintenance mode
We have an unfortunate trifecta of bad multiplayer gaming news, especially for fans of the battle royale title Rumbleverse, the team-based dodgeball battler Knockout...
EA is sunsetting Apex Legends Mobile, canceling Battlefield mobile game
Electronic Arts delivered its Q3FY23Â investor report this afternoon, and it wasn't a bad one; the company saw net revenues up for the quarter and...
Square Enix-published Marvel’s Avengers is ending official support this fall
Even the force of one of the mightiest IPs of the world couldn't save Marvel's Avengers from a disappointing turnout and underwhelming reception. On...
One of Ubisoft’s canceled games was a PvP team battle arena dubbed Project Q
In covering Ubisoft's ongoing clownshow - the mass-game cancelations, the sixth delay of Skull & Bones, the CEO gaffe, and the impending worker strike...
Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio
Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
Stadia offers one last game to subscribers in the form of Worm Game
Before Google Stadia closes its doors for good, the service is offering its fans one final game to play for free. Lest you get...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy Record Keeper meets its finality
We're a little late to the party on this, but friend of the site Connor pointed out that Square Enix shut down yet another...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2022
Perhaps one of our saddest traditions at the turn of every year is taking stock of all the MMOs we lost along the way....
Kickstarted sandbox MMO The Repopulation is apparently dead as Idea Fabrik’s contracted dev team quits
When last we checked in on The Repopulation, it was in August, when I realized that the team behind the game had put out...
Kingshunt has shut down its servers for what the developers are claiming will be further development
We hope you got in your enjoyment with Kingshunt while it lasted because it's over now. The game's servers shut down on January 6th,...
Level 5’s Fantasy Life Online is shutting down for good next month
It's been a short, weird, and depressing trip for Level 5's Fantasy Life Online. The colorful mobile MMORPG launched in Japan in 2018 on...
Deathverse: Let It Die announces that it will suspend services in July
Normally, we'd say something like "don't title your game Deathverse: Let It Die if you don't want some snarky commentary if the game shuts...
