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Orcs Must Die! Unchained is Closing Down - MMORPG.com
SBFord
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Orcs Must Die! Unchained is Closing Down - MMORPG.com
Robot Entertainment has posted a brief note to its community that Orcs Must Die! Unchained is closing on April 8, 2019. Two of the company's other games, Hero Academy and Hero Academy 2, will also close down on that date. All three games will be playable through April 8th and players will "receive a substantial free grant of hard and soft currencies to enjoy the remaining weeks of live play".
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Its a completely different Genre we cant be blaming Fortnite for everything .. OMD series has very little in common with Fortnite .. Unchained was in trouble from the start and Fortnite did not exist yet .. Unchained struggled for 2 years and they tried to fix it while Fortnite still had not released ..
Fortnite has as much to do with this as Ford sales being down
Of course, their matchamking system didn't do them any favors. There was no way that I saw that you could queue up for "randoms", you had to pick a specific map at a specific difficulty level and then hope for someone else to join.
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A good contraction period would probably do gaming some good anyways, the insanity has almost reached epidemic proportions, by both devs and players alike.
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well, now the rest of the gameing world gets the mmo treatment too i guess
welcome to the mass market
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the thing about Fortnite is that is can fall just as fast as it rose. Remeber PubG and H1Z1 before that.
All it would take is a new game thats better and all the Fortnite kiddies would switch in a week,
Other than cyberpunk I don't really see many epic games coming down the pipe,
I think you'd be hard pressed to legitimately claim that Fortnite players might otherwise be playing OMD Unchained if Fortnite didn't exist. Sure you might have some overlap, but genre is still very relevant when it comes to potential audiences. Plenty of online games are still very successful. Maybe not Fortnite successful, but enough to keep making decent money. Fact of the matter is OMD Unchained was just a bad game. OMD fans never wanted Unchained, they wanted OMD 3, so right out of the gate you've already alienated your core audience. It was a blunder from the get go.
OMD Unchained - PS4 (July 2017)
OMD Unchained - PC (April 2017) (available in NA/EU and China via Tencent)
Echo Prime (Oct 2013 iOS, Jan 2014 PC)
Orcs Must Die 2 (2012);
Hero Academy (2012);
Orcs Must Die (2011) - PC and XBLA
Of which they are closing OMD Unchained, their most recent game, and Hero Academy. There isn't even a mention of Hero Academy 2 on their site which speaks volumes.
So going forward their most recent game will be 2014.
Whilst Robot Entertainment didn't announce they were closing rumours of their life may be greatly exaggerated.
To dismiss Fortnite's impact is to neglect how the market works. Typically such games depend on "drop ins". People who download a game to try. Studies suggest that the vast number of downloads are "unplayed" - first impressions. A tiny % play for 1 day maximum. A tiny % of these play for a week. And a tiny % of these spend money. And people who play for more than a week - well they are rare indeed.
Everything starts with the drop in downloaders though. And by tying up so many players Fortnite is starving other games of people even downloading their games. Let alone trying them. Let alone spending money!
And if you are a company "on the edge" already struggling .......