MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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Google Stadia hardware refunds have begun rolling out following its cancelation
Just two months ago, Google announced the sunset of Stadia, which was less a surprise than an expectation at that point, given the company's...
Elyon prepares to sunset in Korea following its western shutdown
It's an ignominious end to a once-promising MMORPG. Elyon (previously Ascent: Infinite Realm) has less than a week left before Kakao closes it in...
Forsaken World officially sunsets, but there’s already a private server available
Gearbox Publishing announced at the tail end of April that it would be shutting down Perfect World Entertainment's MMORPG Forsaken World on November 30th....
PvPvE survival shooter Scavengers goes from maintenance mode to sunsetted on December 16
It's been a fairly long stretch of time since we've heard much out of Scavengers, the PvPvE survival shooter from developer Midwinter Entertainment, but...
Gamigo silently pulled Aura Kingdom off Steam after months of payment issues
Welp, this can't be good news for Aura Kingdom. Players are reporting that Aeria Games' MMORPG has been pulled from Steam by the publisher's...
Crowfall goes dark today with a slim hope of a future return
For an MMO that's all about death and reincarnation, there's either irony or hope in Crowfall going offline today supposedly for retooling. Whether or...
WoW, Overwatch, Diablo, and more to sunset in China following failed Blizzard-Netease licensing deal
Last week, as part of its Q3 2022 investor report, Activision-Blizzard included what we described as an ominous note about its apparent difficulties negotiating...
SWGEmu sunsets the original Basilisk server, but Finalizer is going strong
One of Star Wars Galaxies' oldest emulator projects bid farewell to a long-running test server this past weekend. SWGEmu announced that it took the...
Vague Patch Notes: Alas, poor Crowfall, you’re gone now
Dusty dusty, ashy ashy, Crowfall's plane went crashy crashy. Yes, we are now talking about Crowfall very strictly in the past tense. You could...
Crowfall is going offline on November 22, supposedly for further development work
Since Crowfall was purchased in December of last year, the news coming out of the game has been minimal at best. So today's announcement...
Valofe resurrects the sunsetted Diablo-like MMO Cronous in a Steam re-release
Usually, when an MMO has announced its closure, that's often the last word. However, some games refuse to go into that good night like...
Epic Games MOBA Paragon is resurrected as Paragon The Overprime under Netmarble’s oversight
It's been a long, strange, and twisty-turny journey for Epic Games' Paragon. The third-person MOBA came out in 2016 but quickly found itself floundering...
Electronic Arts will sunset multiplayer servers for a wide assortment of classic games this year
As Tim Curry's character can tell you, escaping capitalism requires some pretty severe steps, but unfortunately the online multiplayer servers for a number of...
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier is shutting down in January after less than a year of operation
It's apparently the season for Square-Enix to cut loose its various online games that are severely underperforming, as Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier...
CEO of Platinum Games on Babylon’s Fall: ‘Live service games are definitely something we do want to do’
Ultimately, Babylon's Fall went about as badly as a live-service game could conceivably go. It launched to poor reviews and reception, never convinced a...
Flagship’s dead MMO Mythos is back as a single-player RPG from Hellgate owner Hanbitsoft
A few weeks ago on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to come up with MMOs that had centaur-like races, and we...
Echo of Soul comes back to the west once again as Echo of Soul Ragnarok thanks to a new publisher
Echo of Soul has had a long and drawn out history of death and rebirth here in the west as well as across the...
Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date
MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...
Babylon’s Fall is shutting down on February 27
It turns out that building a looter-shooter that is more of a looter-slasher is harder than it looks. Square-Enix and Platinum Games' Babylon's Fall...
Krafton has put Thunder Tier One into maintenance mode after less than a year
You guys remember Thunder Tier One, right? It's a top-down tactical multiplayer shooter with a heavy emphasis on player modding along with single-player, co-op,...
