The action RPG Babylon’s Fall from PlatinumGames, the creators behind hits like NieR:Automata or the Bayonetta series, is on the verge of shutting down. After not even 365 days, the servers and associated websites will be taken offline. MeinMMO summarizes the most important information for you here.
What is Babylon’s Fall? Babylon’s Fall is a third-person action RPG with hack-and-slash elements. You play as a Sentinel and must explore the Tower of Babylon. There, you fight powerful foes and can continuously earn better equipment.
The game can be played solo as well as in groups of four players. There is also a social hub where you can find NPCs, quest givers, and merchants. You can interact with other players and form groups for the next adventure, much like in Destiny.
The gameplay is typical hack-and-slash, as known from NieR: Automata, another game from PlatinumGames.
However, there is a peculiarity: In addition to your four primary weapons sword, shield, hammer & bow, your character can equip two astral weapons. The order in which you use your weapons in combat changes their effect and allows you to perform cool combination attacks.
Despite this, the game spectacularly failed about half a year after its release and we will show you the reasons for that.
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Why Babylon’s Fall flopped
Why did Babylon’s Fall fail? The first trailer for the game received a lot of positive feedback, but during the beta phase, critical voices began to accumulate. While the combat system was praised, players criticized the level and item design. The graphics, which were meant to resemble a living painting, were also criticized and subsequently revised.
Many players were frustrated that Babylon’s Fall became a live-service game; they would have preferred it to be a single-player game like NieR: Automata or Bayonetta.
At release, the game failed to impress. Most reviews were mixed or negative. However, the biggest problem with Babylon’s Fall is the lack of active players. Most of the time, fewer than 50 Sentinels were on the servers. At times, Steam even recorded only a single player, who was exploring the Tower of Babel alone (via steamdb.info).
The trailer for Babylon’s Fall looked quite promising:
What happens next with Babylon’s Fall
In a community statement, the developers from PlatinumGames apologized to players for the shutdown of Babylon’s Fall. They outline how the game will proceed before the servers are finally shut down on March 3, 2023.
- September 13, 2022 – The sale of the digital and physical versions of the game. The sale of in-game currency will also be stopped.
- November 29, 2022 – Season 2 ends and the sale of the premium battle pass will cease. At the same time, a final season will start, adding special rewards and an event mission.
- December 2022 – Additional unique rewards will be added.
- January 2023 – Another event mission will be released.
- February 2023 – The last event mission will become playable and a quest boost will be implemented.
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On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, the developers will shut down the service for Babylon’s Fall. This will result in the servers being taken offline and the websites being discontinued. Would you have been interested in a free-to-play version? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
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