Highguard will "permanently shut down" next week after "one final game update," dev confirms: "We have not been able to build a sustainable player base"
www.gamesradar.com
"Servers will remain online until March 12th"

Archived article: https://archive.md/HONwC

They’ll release one more update (my guess is whatever release-ready content they’ve already got), then the servers will shut down next Thursday.

“We don’t need player counts to be super huge in order to be successful” is starting to ring hollow.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 hours ago

    I feel like Geoff really did a disservice to this game. It might actually could have ramped up some dedicated players as it built out its vision. But Geoff swooping in and saying it’ll be the next, greatest game did it zero favors.

    • red_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      2 million players gave the game a chance thanks to Geoff. I doubt the game would even get 1000 players if they decided to shadow drop it like they originally intended.

      The fact that they laid off most of their staff just weeks after release shows that they couldn’t afford a slow ramp up.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      I agree completely. There’s only one chance to make a first impression. The final ad slot of TGA needs a worthy game that the audience can be excited about, and putting the most generic, most corporate-looking game there felt like an insult. Kind of like this absolute flop.

      • AEsheron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Too be fair, TGA doesn’t seem to have historically given a lot of weight to the last spot. And they probably should, because of the public perception of the last spot being inherently prestigious. But it doesn’t seem like they were trying to say it’s some sort of capstone or anything. By all accounts he just thought it looked neat and threw it in the last open spot.