Electronic Arts announces the end of the title “Shadow Realms”, it will not be further developed. The team from Bioware is supposed to focus more on Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Six months ago, there was an elaborate trailer campaign for this, and now it has come to an end. The title “Shadow Realms” will not be further developed. The team from Bioware worked on the game.
Shadow Realms was envisioned as a 4vs1 online game, where 4 “adventurers” faced a kind of dungeon. The opposing player was to throw dangers and difficulties in their way, ultimately aiming to triumph over them in a final confrontation or not.
Even at Gamescom in Cologne, Shadow Realms was promoted and presented as one of the upcoming major projects. Already in November, Electronic Arts had buried a MOBA project called “Dawngate”.
As a reason for the end of Shadow Realms, EA states that it is more important for Bioware to dedicate itself to other projects. Thus, Bioware is supposed to focus primarily on the long-standing MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, for which they have big plans in 2015 in light of the new trilogy.
But the biggest focus for our team in BioWare Austin will be on Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. As every Star Wars™ fan knows, this is a massive year in the Star Wars universe. We have some great plans for expanding this epic game this year, and look forward to sharing the news about those plans with our players in the coming weeks.
Ironically, the announcement of the end of Shadow Realms comes on the same day as Evolve an asymmetrical 4vs1 experiment just takes off. A push from the major U.S. gaming print magazine Game Informer likely made such a statement necessary. They had caught wind of it, inquired, and pressed for answers.
