Daybreak Game Company final evening introduced plans to close down PlanetSide Arena on January 10th, 2020. The free-to-play battle royale FPS spun off from PlanetSide 2 launched into early entry on September 19th, in order that’s lower than 4 months. Daybreak say it hadn’t attracted sufficient gamers to maintain the kind of massive battles it’s meant to. The servers will shut down, the game will turn out to be unplayable, and individuals who paid actual cash for DLC or microntransaction money will obtain a refund.
Daybreak defined in Friday’s announcement, “While our team set out with an ambitious vision for a game that combined the massive-scale combat and camaraderie of PlanetSide through a diverse collection of new game modes, it has become clear after several months in Early Access that our population levels make it impossible to sustain the gameplay experience we envisioned.”
PlanetSide Arena began out supporting 300-player matches (with 25 groups of 12) and was deliberate to finally allow over 1000 in a single match. Across November, the very best variety of gamers in-game at any level (not essentially even in a match collectively) was 70.
We despatched Brendan and Sin in to take a look at Arena and return a verdict when it first launched. They did each just like the moments of chaos with massive fights filled with automobiles and explosions. “But I didn’t feel overly impressed by much else,” Brendan mentioned. “The movement, the shooty-shooty, the item-hoovering. For me, in terms of royal bats, this ain’t no Apex predator.” It wasn’t, no.
PlanetSide Arena continues to be free-to-play on Steam, should you’re curious. It’ll turn out to be unplayable when the servers shut down on January 10th. Refunds ought to robotically hit Steam Wallets after that.
Over the previous few years, Daybreak have hit workers withseveral rounds of layoffs and shut down a number of games.
