Craig of War
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RIP to Crucible, Amazon Games’ first PC shooter: 2020-2020 [Updated]
Full game shutdown set for November 9; online matchmaking will end sooner.
arstechnica.com
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"In a Friday post titled "Final Crucible developer update," the game's devs placed the blame on two factors: "the feedback we’ve heard from you, paired with the data we’ve collected." But the letter doesn't explain what that data spelled out—which was likely scant data, gathered from whatever miniscule playerbase remained after the Steam delisting. We'd been keeping an eye on Crucible's Steam updates and saw the developers continue to post detailed patch notes, which we thought might be paid forward by an official "relaunch" at a later date.
"Weirdly, Amazon Games has promised to continue patching and touching up the game in its 30-day end-of-life period before shutting down development and "transitioning" its staff to the upcoming MMORPG New World (which received its own delay from this fall into 2021) and "other upcoming projects." Once the game's matchmaking service is shut down on November 9, its client will continue to support "custom" peer-to-peer matchmaking—which we seriously appreciate at Ars, as opposed to making a game die with its servers—and the staff will host a last-hurrah matchmaking frenzy with fans before that November 9 date.