Firefall – Its misery finally ended in 2017
In Firefall, a coop MMO shooter, there had long been trouble. The game from studio Red 5 was remodeled from Buy2Play to a Free2Play title during development. It already had technical issues during the beta in 2013, and the studio had to repeatedly lay off employees. Even the studio founder Mark Kern was kicked out.
When in 2015 even the salaries for developers could not be paid anymore, the funeral atmosphere was perfect. Nevertheless, Firefall somehow managed to continue and was further developed by the Chinese company The9. In 2016, it was even completely offline from time to time, and everyone thought, “Now it’s dead!”. But Firefall apparently did not want to die; it kept coming back.
Firefall is dead but is supposed to be resurrected as a mobile game
In July 2017, it finally happened, and the servers of Firefall were shut down. By then, the game had hardly any players left and led a seemingly dead existence. However, the death of Firefall is probably not the end. The remaining developers are reportedly working on a mobile version of the game. Loyal Firefall fans will receive special goodies here.
The next game was shut down shortly after a short time.
Cloud Pirates – A short fun, then it had to jump overboard
The tactical Free2Play action game Cloud Pirates from My.com was officially released only in April 2017. In the game, you commanded a sleek airship in a steampunk style. You fought in teams against an enemy group of ships, similar to Wargaming’s World of Warships.
The goal was to fulfill mission objectives before the enemy and to shoot down as many ships from the opposing team as possible. Depending on the type of ship, you had different weapons, such as cannon broadsides, long-range sniper guns, or cumbersome torpedoes. In addition, your ships had special abilities such as self-repair or invisibility.
Hardly online for half a year and already dead
But hardly half a year after release, on September 29, 2017, Cloud Pirates already had its lights turned off. The publisher My.com did not give official reasons. Probably, interest in the game was simply too low and it was no longer economically viable.
Just before the end, however, there was one last big update with the name “Final Frontier” (translated as “the final frontier”), which of course sounded somewhat cynical in light of the impending end. Fortunately, My.com offered players the option to refund recently made microtransactions or transfer them to other My.com games.
This made the death of the game somewhat easier to bear, but still Cloud Pirates was a nice game that did not deserve such a quick end.
The next game was very emotionally mourned by fans.
Asheron‘s Call – Emotional farewell from the MMORPG
The online role-playing game Asheron‘s Call was a monument of the genre from 1999. Its peak was in the early 2000s, when around 120,000 gamers were supposed to have played Asheron‘s Call. However, since 2014, the game had been in “standby” mode. It was still running but was no longer actively developed.
The moving end of a classic
The end of Asheron‘s Call was sealed when at the end of 2016 the MMO development teams left the responsible studio Turbine. They took titles like The Lord of the Rings Online with them, but not Asheron‘s Call. That was the end for the venerable online RPG.
On January 31, 2017, it was then over for Asheron‘s Call. The servers were shut down. The end of the classic Asheron‘s Call was emotionally celebrated by the remaining fans. The streamer loud_lou mourned the loss of a sort of second home.
Sad retiree says goodbye to his favorite game
Even sadder was the farewell from Asheron‘s Call for player Julien. The man is 74 years old and has been playing Asheron‘s Call since its release in 1999. In an immensely popular YouTube video, he shows his granddaughter his characters before the end of the game and talks about the many years he spent in Asheron‘s Call.
Among them were moving events like weddings and even funerals. This touching story not only made his granddaughter sad. At the developer Blizzard, they were probably also moved and gifted the retiree and his granddaughter access to World of Warcraft.
On the next page you can expect two resurrected figures that died again and maybe the worst MMO on the Playstation 4!
