Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 hours agoI genuinely wouldn‘t say so. The game shuts down because nobody played it anyway. The chances you pick up a game no one plays is pretty slim by nature. But even if you have been burned in the past you can just pick up one that is already popular.
Pre-ordering on the other hand is rarely a good idea and that goes for any game, not just live service.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Every live service shuts down because not enough people were playing, eventually. Even ones I loved. I’ve got multiplayer games from 25 years ago that I can still play, but I can’t still play the ones from 10 years ago.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 3 hours ago
Well they could release the server software before shutting down the service, they wouldn't lose anything.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They’d still have to patch out their anti-cheat. And I’m guessing neither of those things are going to happen.