Hawken, the free-to-play mech shooter, will see its Steam servers shut down at first of the brand new yr, based on an announcement from the sport’s Facebook page. DLC and different purchasable content material has already been faraway from sale, and the servers will likely be shut down as of January 2, 2018 to “refocus our development efforts.”
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The information isn’t altogether shocking, given the sport’s weak participant counts. Total concurrent gamers haven’t exceeded 500 since 2015 based on SteamCharts, and up to date months have seen common counts beneath 100, which isn’t sustainable for a free-to-play title. It appears the console variations of the sport have been extra profitable, as this announcement applies solely to the Steam servers on PC.
Hawken has been by extra layers of improvement hell than most video games. After an open beta launch in 2012, the sport has been out and in of assorted levels of launch ever since. Following the closure of authentic publishers Meteor Entertainment – and after practically a yr of silence – the title was picked up by 505 Games, who republished Hawken as an Early Access title on PC.
The console variations will stay on for now, however it’s time for PC gamers to say goodbye to Hawken. Alas, we will now must look elsewhere for our mech fight repair.
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