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Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2022

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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

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When last we checked in on The Repopulation, it was in August, when I realized that the team behind the game had put out...
Oh my sweet summer child.

Kingshunt has shut down its servers for what the developers are claiming will be further development

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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

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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...
That happened.

Deathverse: Let It Die announces that it will suspend services in July

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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...
Yeah, cool.

Google Stadia hardware refunds have begun rolling out following its cancelation

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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...
Not the problem.

Elyon prepares to sunset in Korea following its western shutdown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Hmm.

Vague Patch Notes: Alas, poor Crowfall, you’re gone now

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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...

Valofe resurrects the sunsetted Diablo-like MMO Cronous in a Steam re-release

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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...

Electronic Arts will sunset multiplayer servers for a wide assortment of classic games this year

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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...
Oh no. Anyway...

Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier is shutting down in January after less than a year of operation

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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...
Whatever.

CEO of Platinum Games on Babylon’s Fall: ‘Live service games are definitely something we do want to do’

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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

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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

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Echo of Soul has had a long and drawn out history of death and rebirth here in the west as well as across the...

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