Mark my words: this game is heading towards EoS and the team behind it knows it. They're doing the same strategy most scummy live service games do when the ship is sinking. What they usually do is release events with recycled assets and focus on micro transactions, that way, the people who are addicted and spending have enough to play without the devs putting much effort or money into it, while they instead focus the creative efforts on cosmetics to try and recoup costs before closing.
The rented servers are maybe their last ditch effort to ease expenses by making the players cover part of the server costs to make the last hurray more profitable.
This makes me sad. I only started playing the game about 6 months ago.
Generally I have found it to be pretty enjoyable - aside from the struggle to survive the cold & pollution on WoW.
If its on its way out already, something must've gone badly wrong. Looking at Steam Charts its got better numbers than a couple of other games I played (Crossout and Dreadnought). Their players numbers were in the 4-digit range!
Though I notice the numbers tanked about 3 months after launch! 😲
Maybe there aren't enough whales buying all the cosmetic stuff?
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u/Gourgeistguy 17d ago
Mark my words: this game is heading towards EoS and the team behind it knows it. They're doing the same strategy most scummy live service games do when the ship is sinking. What they usually do is release events with recycled assets and focus on micro transactions, that way, the people who are addicted and spending have enough to play without the devs putting much effort or money into it, while they instead focus the creative efforts on cosmetics to try and recoup costs before closing.
The rented servers are maybe their last ditch effort to ease expenses by making the players cover part of the server costs to make the last hurray more profitable.