It’s been a tough few months for free-to-play games, and the most recent to be floor up by 2018 is Total War: Arena, the team-based tactical spin-off from the historic technique sequence. The game entered open beta 9 months in the past, however failed to attract the crowds that builders Creative Assembly and writer Wargaming have been hoping for, in order that they’re pulling the plug early. You can see the official announcement here. On the intense facet, anybody with the game can log in to choose from one in every of 4 Total War-related comfort prizes, together with Medieval 2: Definitive Edition.
For those that performed a diligent quantity of Total War: Arena, Wargaming are being particularly good. If you’ve performed over 100 battles, you’ll be rewarded with a month of three Premium account for World Of Warships, World Of Tanks and World Of Warplanes. If you’ve spent any cash on Arena via it’s premium cash-shop, they’re providing to transform the total quantity spent into the equal for both of these three games. It’s not fairly a full money refund, but it surely’s the subsequent neatest thing.
Live on the time of writing, Creative Assembly’s last dev livestream.
While they’re not letting any new gamers in, the few sticking round till the lights go off in February are being decently served, at the very least. Creative Assembly have launched one possibly-final replace – the Sunset Patch, as they’re calling it. The replace removes the premium money store from the game, will increase the benefit of matching with gamers between unit tiers, and reduces the extent of stat acquire between one unit tier and the subsequent. So, simpler to search out matches and a few messier fights for the subsequent few months.
For those that by no means had an opportunity to play the game, Total War: Arena was mainly the regiment-level fight from a Total War game. It was barely reworked as a ten-on-ten multiplayer game, with every participant controlling a small unbiased power. Not a nasty concept – the truth is, it’s the first multiplayer mode from many different Total War games, writ giant. I can’t assist however suppose that was a part of the game’s undoing although, as there’s already 9 Total War games on Steam alone with over a thousand gamers on-line proper now – it’s a well-served area of interest.
Total War: Arena’s servers shut down on February 22nd. You can learn the full details of the game’s demise here, and the ‘Sunset’ patch notes here.
