Less than four months after its release, developer GungHo Online Entertainment has announced it will be shutting down the servers for free-to-play title Deathverse: Let It Die. The game is being taken offline on 18th July 2023, meaning it will have spent less than a year on the PS Store. However, this won't actually be the last you see of it.
The studio reveals it is pulling the PS5, PS4 experience so it can redevelop it in order to release it again "with significant improvements [that] will allow it to be enjoyed by a wider audience as well as our current players". GungHo believes this is the best decision for the game at this current point despite the fact it has to remove access from players. "We will be doing our utmost to prepare for the re-release so that our current community can enjoy the game alongside many more new players in the future," says a post on the official Deathverse website.
As for why the game is being shut down — at least temporarily — the team points to issues with in-game matchmaking and lag. "While we have tried various solutions to some degree of success, we have not been able to resolve the underlying problems." As such, GungHo Online Entertainment will suspend the servers for an unspecified time while Deathverse is redeveloped.
Between now and the server closure on 18th July 2023, sales of the premium currency Death Metal will be pulled on 7th February, and the entirety of season two will be released. However, season 3 will only launch "partially". The blog post concludes: "All of us in the development team deeply apologize to our loyal players for the sudden notice. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of our players for their support, as well as our heartfelt apologies."
The follow-up to PS4 game Let It Die, the free-to-play title appears to have struggled to find an audience — or at least one as large as the following its predecessor garnered. While not the most popular game on Sony's last-gen system, Let It Die continued to receive support for a number of years after release for a committed fanbase, which included Sony's own Shuhei Yoshida. GungHo Online Entertainment will now be hoping it can pull a Final Fantasy XIV and return to market with a better and more popular title.
[source deathverse.com]
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Lol. That didn't last very long. But its a good call I suppose? Its pretty boring compared to Let it Die and definitely not optimized at all.
Didn't even realise this got released already. Although it was clear from the original trailers that this was not going to do well.
It needs it..rougher than jodie marsh pre photoshop..
It was ok, played a few matches but the combat boils down to whoever lands the stun lock wins.
Sh*t game. Just let it die dammit!
I'm not sorry
Let Let It Die die.
Am I really sad that this game will be defunct now?
Nah! I say let it die!
Let it die, let it die
Let it shrivel up and die!
I actively follow video game news and I've never even heard of this game
That game released?
I only remember seeing a pretty horrible trailer for that game
July? That's pretty far away considering the state the game is in... I know it's a joke to say the 12 or so people will be sad that the game is going offline for a bit, but I've played this in the past month, and there are literally around that many people playing at any given time. You have to wait around 5 - 15 mins for a match, just so the one you were just in can finish if you didn't win or come second.
The 3 or so week long maintenance periods totally took the wind out of the sails of this game, and the technical state doesn't help either. Not to mention the art direction is ugly, it's made to be ugly and garish, with it's kinda post-ironic space age art deco style. Game is grimey, and niche, and none of the skins look good. It's hilarious how they thought this would have anything, but a small nibble of success if that.
They really need to retool and reenvision this game.
Should have made Let it Die 2 instead, would have been far more successful. This Deathverse could have been an optional part of that game instead.
Hope they remake it in the style of Let it Die. That blueprint had pontential worth following through.
I didn't think I'd see the day a game flopped harder that babylons fall.
And the award for this year’s most appropriate game title goes to….
Like a few users above me, I wasn't even aware this already got released once. Heck I nearly forgot about this game lol.
So the game is that bad that it can't be reworked in the 6 months between this announcement and the server going offline. What have they been doing since it's launch. How long will the shutdown take, days? months? years?
All that said I have never heard of this game. Hope they can pull it off even if I never played it. As I'm sure no creator sets out to make a poor game. Good luck.
Ironic name for the game that .. let it die lol
I completely forgot that this game even existed tbh.
nothing of value was lost , tired of battle royale do something different 👎👎
You should have Lily Bergamo instead that game looked way more interesting.
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