With the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into impact in the present day, hopefully spelling an finish to e-mails from firms begging me to remain subscribed to their newsletters, one other recreation has chosen this second to throw within the towel. Torn Banner Studios have eliminated first-person brawler Mirage: Arcane Warfare from sale and can quickly shut down their official servers. The magical follow-up to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare will nonetheless be playable on player-hosted servers and with its AI botbuds, so individuals who already personal it could play – however new individuals can’t take part.
“We have made this change in part due to the new European Union privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that comes into effect May 25, 2018,” Torn Banner mentioned in yesterday’s announcement. “We unfortunately have run out of options for keeping Mirage alive.”
The official servers can be on-line till May 31st, then it’ll be all the way down to player-hosted servers.
Torn Banner don’t absolutely clarify the state of affairs, however I’d think about it’s the case that the sport was making so little cash that the price of updating to change into GDPR-compliant wasn’t value it. The GDPR prompted Loadout and Super Monday Night Combat to name it quits for that cause, the ultimate straw for struggling video games. I’ve requested Torn Banner to elaborate on their explicit state of affairs, and can let you realize what I hear again.
Mirage was struggling. Over the previous month, it peaked at having 24 gamers on-line on the similar time. Torn Banner did briefly bolster playercounts by giving Mirage away for free for in the future in September 2017, which noticed it briefly surge to an all-time excessive of 43,000 concurrent gamers earlier than dramatically falling off. Chivalry’s numbers are nonetheless about 100 occasions increased than Mirage’s.
Our Matt was a fan of Mirage and had hoped it’d in the future go free-to-play to lure in masses extra gamers, however so it goes.
This doesn’t sound like the tip for Torn Banner, thoughts. Chivalry remains to be up and bought, and so they say “We look forward to seeing you in our future titles” – so that they’re anticipating to make extra video games.
