- Wildlight Entertainment has announced that Highguard servers are shutting down on March 12.
- They weren’t able to maintain a healthy player base, so they can’t support it further.
- It will receive one final content update before being shut down for good.
Highguard was among the most controversial releases in recent months. It was put in a very weird position, after its The Game Awards finale announcement and dubbed as Concord 2.0, and it is now suffering a similar fate.
Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed that Highguard is shutting down on March 12. The game was a colossal failure despite having a nice debut with over 100K players, but just after a couple of weeks, it lost 99% of its player base.
Why it matters: Highguard might not have garnered this much attention if it hadn’t gotten that TGA finale spot. However, it crumbled under all the pressure and couldn’t carry on much further.
Highguard was released on January 26, so it is shutting down for good just over a month later. This comes after the studio promised to support the title and even add a single-player mode down the line.
The studio penned a note of X, saying that due to a faltering player base, they are unable to continue supporting the game. The servers will go offline from March 12. But there will be one last update that adds new content.
Highguard’s failure also put the studio in a very weird spot, which led to most of the developers being laid off. The studio blamed the audience for the failure, citing that all the hate was totally unwarranted.
Nonetheless, while Highuard did technically better than it, it has now officially taken the ‘Concord 2.0′ label, after being announced to be shutting down just over a month after launch.
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