Nicely, that did not final lengthy. The Witcher: Monster Slayer, a location-based AR cellular motion RPG the place gamers might tackle the position of a Witcher and battle beasts and earn trophies, is shutting down. It is occurring in two levels: the sport is being taken off the Google Play and Apple App Retailer on January thirty first, with in-game purchases additionally being shut down on the identical day. There additionally will not be any new content material beginning as we speak. Then, on June thirtieth, the sport will go offline ceaselessly.
Contemplating the sport solely launched just below a yr and a half in the past, it is fairly simple to conclude that one thing went catastrophically fallacious. A fast look on the consumer opinions paint a bleak story, because it presently has a 3/5 score out of 73.6k opinions on the Google Play Retailer, which positively is not perfect. One upvoted overview acknowledged that it “does not really feel such as you’re progressing in any respect”, which makes it sound as if the sport wasn’t doing an excellent job at sustaining a userbase.
Whereas 100 million monsters have been defeated worldwide, that does not actually imply something in the long term. It is a huge quantity, however with sufficient folks something is feasible, and it clearly wasn’t sufficient, or else this recreation would not be shutting down. It’s a must to surprise when (not if) one other Witcher recreation will come to cellular, on condition that it is such a large franchise. Perhaps when the following wave of Witcher video games arrive within the mid-2020s? We’ll need to see.
Apparently, it isn’t all dangerous information in the event you’re a Spokko developer that had been engaged on The Witcher: Monster Slayer. This is what CD Projekt Purple has to say about what’s occurring to Spokko in future.
Shifting ahead, we plan to roll Spokko into CD PROJEKT RED, with part of its employees given the chance to affix core CD PROJEKT improvement initiatives. Throughout this transition, there shall be some employees members who will, sadly, be let go — nevertheless, we are going to do our greatest to help all of our staff affected by this example and make sure the transition to the following step of their careers is as simple and protected as doable.
So, whereas the sport itself goes down, which is undoubtedly a bummer for the employees and those that are nonetheless taking part in it, not less than a number of the builders concerned are going to be touchdown on their toes. Better of luck to all these concerned.
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