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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Cancelled or shut down? If you wanted a cancelled game to come out, 99 times out of 100, it was your imagination making it into a great game, and they cancelled it because it wasn't coming together.

For games that were shut down, for me, it was Robocraft. It was only shut down recently, but the version of the game that I loved from about 2017-ish was basically replaced a year later with a version of the game that I was not a fan of, and it stayed that way until the game's and studio's closure. I had to get burned by Robocraft in order to come to some realizations about the rot at the core of live service games, and it informed a lot of where I spend my time and money now.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Cries in Star Wars: Battlefront 3

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Sometimes we're lucky and get a leak of the cancelled game. Happened with the War Craft adventure game. It was almost finished. And it was really mid. Maybe up to today's Blizzard standards but not back then.