Highguard Permanently Shuts Down on 12th March

Wow, how nice of Highguard to make way for Marathon.
Good to see that flop seat on rotation.

Say goodbye. To highguard

Well done concord 2, now welcome marathon (concord 3) and horizon gathering (concord 4)

I shouldn’t but I just burst out laughing lmao
It really was Concord 2 🤣

@CielloArc - Marathon will do fine, I guess at least it will last some months. Game is among the top sellers on Steam, people will play it for some time. But on the long run? Who knows.

World's least surprising news

@OthmaneAD I dont mind marathon but im hoping the horizon multiplayer game fails that will put Herman the idiot in his place

Sad for all the devs but you just love to see it for the big suits. I hate this live service trend and I hope 90%+ of these games fail as they clearly only intend to cash grab! Sony would fail so so hard if they kept going. But hey Hermann still needs to go ASAP

Concord 2: Highguardin'

@CielloArc im dead 💀💀💀 🤣

Only Marathon is left to complete the Concordian Epic Trilogy.

These two things might actually be mutually exclusive, but imagine being the type of person to think ‘Highguard looks good I will play that’ and also being a trophy hunter. Better grind out that platinum immediately or the devs will have screwed you forever because that platinum will be impossible to obtain after the 12th. There should be laws against this sort of thing.

@Dan12836666 - Well, if that game fails and Guerrilla don't have anything to release right after, I guess we can all say goodbye to the studio.

Pretty sure that's everyone wants, right?

Where’s the usual live service defenders?

@iNightfarer The Horizon live-service game might see Concord becoming a franchise lol

@jFug dont see how people can defend that rubbish

@nolifebr no, we’d prefer Sony does what it does best – single player games.

@jFug spot on thats what we all want

@Balaam_ The only thing funnier than seeing this live service trash fail, is seeing it take trophy hunters down with it.

Lasted longer but was also free to play. Really hope we see less of these live service games but I doubt it

@jFug - Well, they'll probably refocus on that again (there are already some rumors about that), but it's not like they'll give up on having their own Fortnite anytime in the near future.

If they give up completely, I think people should prepare for a new price increase on games in the next generation, because they will try to find the money somewhere.

I don't get why people are so pissed about Marathon, to be very honest. Last single-player focused game Bungie released was 17 years ago.

You know Geoff was just waiting to give it multiplayer game of the year this year..

I don't think I can ever bring myself to laugh at this sort of situation. Countless hours of work go into making games and as much as I don't care for live service things a lot of people worked hard on the project and now most if not all of them are going to lose their jobs. The big companies suck but in the long run the only people actually hurt by this are the devs who now have to find new jobs with essentially nothing to show for their years of work.

Just goes to show that live service doesn’t sell and no one wants it.

Except for Fortnite, Roblox, GTA Online, Call of Duty, Genshin Impact, League of Legends, FIFA, PUBG, WoW, Apex Legends, Valorant, Final Fantasy XIV, Honkai Star Rail, Destiny 2, and Rocket League. Not to mention Sony-owned Helldivers 2 😉

That at least lasted more than Concord, right?

Didnt even seem like that bad of a game its a shame really i hope the devs go onto other good stuff.

They didn't waste as much money as concord. They should call it half a success.

Brain-dead investors keep throwing money at live services. They'll eventually run out of funds.

I swear it seems like a ftp game gets announced as shutting down like once a month now.

It seems like you have to catch lightning in a bottle with the ftp format almost out of the gate or it's doomed.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Did you forget Rivals, or is that one slowly sinking? In any case, I both see your point, and yet, also feel that that's plenty enough! Haha 😅🤷

Game got Concorded.

Anyways, feel bad for the devs since all that work is for naught.

People in the comments "hoping" that Highguard would fail and now hoping that Marathon and Hunters Gathering will fail are so lame. It makes me sick how rampant schadenfreude is right now. How miserable and bitter do you have to be in your own life that you wish it on other people, too?

I also don't think Highguard's failure has anything to do with it being live-service or free-to-play. It just didn't have an appealing aesthetic, content was light, and the gameplay felt pretty boring (at least to me). The fact that Highguard failed is not surprising, but I certainly didn't hope for it. Wildlight succeeding would have taken absolutely nothing away from anyone else.

@J2theEzzo Google’s AI didn’t mention it!

Good...enough of this *****

Marathon is toast people have had enough of live service games and the biggest issues is time once people invest in one they don't have time to invest in others.

I play destiny 2 and fortnite myself I don't have time to play any more.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Haha, it must know something we don't!

At least it lasted longer than concord

They couldn't have atleast waiting for one more month to shut it down...

Even that star wars hero shooter lasted more 💀 I feel bad for the team but at the same time, the writing was on the wall. I genuinely believe Marathon has better potential to last a bit linger than this game.

Fairgames on the other hand, might actually become the next Concord.

Never even heard of this before, but this couldn’t even last a pathetic 2 months? Embarrassing. I can’t wait for the industry to move on from this trend but I fear it’s still not going anywhere anytime soon.

@SoulsBourne128 I believe marathon will succeed but fairgames and horizon hunters gathering will be dead on arrival

It is fun to see, that people still flush money down the GaaS toilet...

Maybe Marathon can manage two months

Guess they didn't get the memo that the bubble burst happen a while ago.

This is costing greedy investors money which is the only way to stop this trend. Live service needs to go away so the only thing people can do is kill these games. Horizon will be next but Marathon might survive because that fan base is terrible and will defend it blindly.

I dont know if I am looking at it wrong but I see the Horizon game more like a destiny or division. I.e. it can be played solo and enjoyed like that. I mean I dont see people slating monster hunter and that is essentially what the horizon game is?

OK. I’m usually one of the contrarians here. Always speaking [i]for[/] the industry trying to find the next big thing. But at this point just stop with the chase for next Overwatch/Fortnite/Marvel Rivals. I feel like people are not wanting to play these games as a for of rebellion against the craze.

lol i know it’s not funny, but it is 😂🤣

It was well worth the half hour.

@ButterySmooth30FPS but that's exactly it, look at the age of these games.
Most recent live action games don't manage to survive because their place is already taken and/or players are already satiated with what they have.
Really just simple maths

So much for years of content. Got to feel like if a Gaas title cannot sustain itself independently for say 12 months, it deserves to fail.

This has been heavily funded by wealthy backers, why didnt they have provisions set aside to keep it going for a minimum period if it didn't get a large initial audience? If they truly believed they had something, they'd take it back into Beta and turn it into something worth playing.

Sounds like disaster class in management.

As an aside, there is some serious egg on the game awards face too off the back of this. having a show ender survive less than 2 months before shutting down really damages their credibility.

Did we call it, or did we call it?

High..what? Never heard of it, was it F2P micro transaction 💩
When will they learn.

@OthmaneAD "Well done concord 2, now welcome marathon (concord 3) and horizon gathering (concord 4)"

While Marathon and Horizon will not set the world on fire I don't think they will be the historic flops that can match Concord. Fairgame$ is the only one that will absolutely earn the title of Concord 2 ✌️

Never tried this and was never interested, but dang, it's a shame to see all this work wiped away after a couple months.

I am glad, but also I feel bad for the developers. However this is a necessary tragedy that needed to happen so the big publishers stop trying to chase the Live Service Games Cow.

this game needed less Tobias Bruckner style characters

@wildcat_kickz thank you! Wishing nothing but the worst is awful. I hope for the best for the devs, do some of these appeal to me? No, but I don’t wish the end of their work. Like seriously.

Incredible.....I didn't think I'd see Concord 2 again this early. I'm personally hoping the industry takes notice and moves away from it.

@CRASH64
Nah, you're alive
Can't say the same about Highguard though

What were they thinking paying geoff a million to be on the show? What was geoff thinking putting them as the last reveal of the show

Well that went about as expected.

Next is that Fortnite wanna be Horizon game right?

Also was this an F2P game, or did people pay for this game like Concord?

So, does Geoff still want that apology?

About a week after push square wrote an article saying it was doing alright.

good riddance. you will not be missed. highguard. publishers, take this as a sign to stop investing in trash that only has a 1% chance at success perhaps? but if your shareholders demand it, then by all means, keep burning your resources away...

@Cherip-the-Ripper Those are the just the all-timers. Plenty of new games have had great success, it's just getting to a point where it's either huge success or crushing failure with zero in-between.

“YoU nEeD lIvE sErViCe GaMeS tO sTaY iN bUsInEsS”

Remember all of the idiots who continue to say this. Some of the money some of the time will always be better than none of the money all of the time.

Signed,

An actual business major

Well…. Bye. Hopefully this keeps happening until they get the hint that we don’t want that GaaS crap.

Well most of us anyway.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Does this fit this desire to make a live service shooter?

Maybe 5% of these games hit a sweet spot and make it work

I wish devs and publishers would stop wasting so much time and money chasing the live service bag. You're basically as smart as the guy banking on getting rich by winning the lottery. Move on already.

Feel sorry for the Devs’ on this one. No one wakes up one morning and decides “Hey, I feel like making a Game that sucks today”. Seems like they didn’t get a chance to turn it around. Even though GAAS aren’t my bag, it’s still tough to see all these Devs crashing and burning.

Most I can say is I hope the team learns something from this.

Hopefully some of this sticks to Keighly, whether he's aware of it or not.

I think Marathon will be OK b/c Bungie, and I can see it picking off some Destiny 2 players.

Fairgame$ I have no hope for.

Horizon I'd like to see do well but I'm not optimistic.

7 Deadly Sins Origins releases in a couple of weeks which I'm very much looking forward to so I'm not anti live service or anything like that but it's just not a good time to be releasing this many of those types of games.

@iNightfarer

And after this Concordian Epic Trilogy, we will get Concord: Andromeda in the form of Fairgame$.

Marathon will do just fine, because it's fun and itnfeels great to play. Highguard didn't interest me in the slightest despite being f2p. The reason being that it just looked bland. Marathon on the other hand has a very distinctive style (which seems to be a marmite thing buut that's another topic). Plus I really liked the server slam, I managed 15 hours due to work and other stuff. But before the slam I would've never guessed that i would even manage 15 hours

Oh well anyway …

What game will last longer? 4Loop or Online Horizon PS5 ?

This game couldn't beat the allegations of being Concord 2 lol another one bites the dust let's see marathon now

@charbtronic probably 4loop that looks kinda fun at least

Nothing of value was lost let's move on guys

Well, the game doesn't have beta test and the only marketing was from TGA which received quite negative. So i'm not surprised if this happen.

My condolences to the devs though. I hope they get a new job asap 🙏

@ButterySmooth30FPS You forgot GT 7, SF 6, and Tekken 8 which also a successful live service games 😁