Right, I don’t even know how you would cheat it. Down at this point, I guess I’m just lamenting that more games aren’t able to keep healthy communities after dev support ends.

Wasn’t Rising Thunder the one that at least handled part of shutdown right by semi-open sourcing?

But yeah, it’s all part of a wider problem. Personally I don’t want an invasive devloper over-tuning fighting games all the time, and I don’t want any microtransactions. But unless you keep dangling new shiny, very few players will stick with a given game, making it hard to find matches on-demand.

So bizarre to me that a game has to be a runaway hit to even remain accessible for any length of time.

Stopping updates I get (and good, most game updates are annoying), but shutting down servers completely and especially delisting it seem so over the top.