The MMORPG Weapons of Mythology – New Age is closing on Steam. The game was very reminiscent of World of Warcraft, but in the end only 2 people played simultaneously.
What is Weapons of Mythology? The MMORPG comes from IDC/Games and the development studio Gamemag. It was released on Steam in 2016. The release happened for us because the game was incredibly successful on PlayStation 4 in Taiwan.
Weapons of Mythology – New Age combined elements from PvE and PvP. There were guilds and boss enemies, but also a PvP battlefield with elements of MOBAs and a Ranked Ladder system.
When looking at the gameplay, it resembles well-known Asian games like Blade & Soul. However, the combat system feels significantly less dynamic.
MMORPG Doomed to Fail – Just Had No Players
What is said about the Steam closure? The developers only briefly commented on Steam about the end. They wrote: “Hello Mythologers! We would like to inform you that the journey of Weapons of Mythology at IDC/Games is coming to an end. The game’s servers will close on 01.07.2020. Hurry up and enjoy the last battles!”
What are the reasons for the failure? The MMORPG had long been doomed to fail. Two reasons stand out in particular:
- The player numbers were catastrophic
- On Steam, there were almost only negative reviews about the MMORPG, criticizing many game contents
What do the player numbers look like? According to Steamcharts, there was an average of 0 players in the last 30 days. Looking at other analysis platforms, it is evident that since March 16, only a maximum of 2 concurrent players have strayed into the MMORPG.
An average of so few players for a free MMORPG is, of course, catastrophic. Even the Corona crisis, which brought a surge to various games and led to records on Steam, did not help Weapons of Mythology.
By the way, things didn’t look much better at launch. In December 2016, the MMORPG had just a few hundred players. This dwindled to double digits in the last years.
What was criticized? On Steam, there were only 82 reviews in total. Of these, 51 were negative. The sentiment was generally poor.
A major point of criticism is the Pay2Win aspect. In PvP, it was said that certain paid items offered significant advantages. There is also criticism regarding the content, which is said to be boring, and at a certain level, the main activity would just be mindless grinding.
The Steam user Haui lists several of these points and writes: “Don’t waste your time and money on such crap!”
However, Weapons of Mythology is not the first MMO that failed in 2020. Chronicles of Elyria was considered a promising MMORPG but is now dead and all employees were laid off.
