And MADFINGER brought the biggest update Spearhead to their Gray Zone Warfare (they are nice folks and the game is a bit underappreciated IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCKnT__J4FM
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Yeah, duh 🙄 (via)

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First they are like: The cube, Save us! The cube then like: nope, ain't gonna save ya!

The game has been released just a few weeks ago in March. And it will be down by May 8 including Discord server. For example, the discord of Highguard is still up and running.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/3810880/announcements/detail/508484486901530657

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Dune Awakening devs are working on Self-Hosted servers and PvE. Soon PvP will become fully optional, less than 20% ever use it and they are less engaged.

Will AAA publishers notice it? Your live-service games are no longer needed, collaboration is the key, exploration and creation are the driving force.

https://duneawakening.com/news/developer-update-april-2026/
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Yet another multiplayer fell just a few weeks after the release. This time the company wants to give it back to you, the people:

It's a paid game, costs €12 by the way, peaked at 500 CCU and never got over 100 since.

UPD: The game has been developed by a small studio Night Street Games, founded by Imagine Dragons members, including Dan Reynolds and his brother Mac.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2721340/view/675119576448500506?l=english
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There's something terribly wrong going on with The Finals:

Embark is banning people even for accessibility controllers and players started to research the issue, but got deeper than expected.

- They apparently removed anticheat for pro players (secretly, then confirmed it by saying it was due to massive reports on their exceptional skill levels)

- They made a special discord for selected pro players where they have tons of privileges

- They ban average users with one request from pro players and without clear investigation

The same company also operates Arc Raiders. Which is far less competitive but still...

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Over the last couple of years I intentionally added all reasonable free to play multiplayer games to my Steam account. Dozens of games to simply look after the industry.

Many of them were just released
Most of them are already closed

Like literally: end of line, support termination, we took a tough decision to take the game offline. Party games, competitive games, and so on. I haven't even played most of them and never will. Often they don't even announce it — the server just goes offline and the game ends up unable to connect.

Were they that bad? Nope, but the whole market is oversaturated and there's barely any place left to conquer. Make solo games, folks, they are timeless.

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Spellcaster Chronicles from Quantic Dream is going to be closed. The game only made it to 1000 CCU on Steam and now holds about 20...

... NetEase, according to insights, will cease funding of the studio due to the failure of the game. Their more common story-driven projects were supposed to be funded from the success of this multiplayer.

Who's going to tell them?
Haven't they noticed yet?!

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Bungie gives up on Destiny 2: the game will no longer get any updates after the upcoming final one.

This news appeared after the commercial reports revealed that the studio is the financial black hole and caused over $700m losses for PlayStation during the last financial year alone.

Marathon waves between 3 and 12K CCU daily without any noticeable recovery. And fell to 225th position among top sellers on Steam. Now Bungie is hoping to explore what to do next.

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My take: do not make multiplayer games anymore, OKAY?

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Wargaming just released World of Tanks Heat, a hero-shooter but you're a tank. Good part: it's at least getting some traction (they were running a marketing campaign for half a year to collect wishlists).

And almost the same as with their recently failed robot game Steel Hunters, the reviews are negative. Because both games were packed with content 2-3 years before the release and then it was cut out before the release to make "updates" out of it.

That's not how you make a modern Live-Service game, unfortunately. The most passionate fans, the advocates and ambassadors mock Wargaming for it. They spread the word, but a bad one.

And the game crashes a lot (server connection issues, the client fails with and without visible errors, etc).

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Sony gave up on Destruction Allstars — their yet another failed Live-Service game... it has been delisted and the servers will go offline.

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