- Highguard to close after just 45 days
- The studio behind the game says it has “failed to build a sustainable player base.”
- It comes amid other high-profile failures in the live service.
Developer Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed that its online shooter High guard will close at the end of this month.
In an announcement posted on
“Since launch, more than two million players have entered altaguarThe world of d. “You shared comments, created content, and many believed in what we were building,” the post read.
“Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game in the long term.”
The game will no longer be playable after that date, although the team strangely confirmed that there will be “a final game update” before then that will add a new playable Guardian, a new weapon, skill trees, and more.
Developed over four years by a team that included veteran first-person shooter (FPS) developers who had worked on games like Apex Legends and Obligationshe High guard close It comes amid a series of other high-profile failures in the live service. sony Concord is a particularly notable example, a similar shooter that launched in August 2024 and went offline after just two weeks on the market.
Despite a strong initial player count, High guard It only had a few hundred PC players per day in recent weeks, according to data from SteamDB.
Reactions to the news are divided, with some players mocking the announcement while others express sympathy for the developers (many of whom were recently fired).
“What a waste of so much time, talent, and money,” said one X user. “I really feel really bad for the developers who work so hard on major AAA games and just get fooled.”
“We are witnessing the era of shooters with a two-month shelf life,” another joked.
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