Battleforge, the online card game from EA Phenomic, will close at the end of October. Battleforge launched in March 2009, and was branded as a 'Play4Free' title two months later. The game's servers will close on October 31. All players have been advised to spend their remaining in-game currency before that deadline. EA's stated criteria for 'retiring' online games is when traffic falls below 1 per cent of the total peak players across its entire portfolio. However, Battleforge is an exceptional case due to, EA Phenomic, in July. At the time of the closure, an EA representative told GamesIndustry International that the decision was taken to, 'to better focus our teams against priority growth areas.'
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To leave the game running would incur server and infrastructure costs. Two negatives of a large company like EA make closures more likely to occur as a game shrinks; A loyal few aren't enough to cover the maintenance costs with a company that has as much red tape as EA. A company with such a large contingent of 'shareholder focussed' employees would be unwilling to cover the costs for the game/IP's sake. It's a shame when it happens to any game that people enjoy, but such is the unfortunate nature of the beast when our chosen form of art/entertainment/escape is increasingly nothing more than another revenue stream to tap. I'm not going to flog a dead horse's near picked-clean skeleton any longer, you know what I'm driving. Having worked on BattleForge for two and a half years, I'm saddened to see the title go. With that said, the fact that it had remained running for so long is a testament to the guys at Phenomic.
They really did everything they could for the game. BattleForge was ahead of its time, there's no doubt about it. Had the game released as a F2P title a year later than its actual release date (once more core gamers had adjusted to the idea of quality core F2P titles), I have no doubt that it would have been huge.
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BattleForge will be shutting down permanently soon. A new update on the online strategy game's website reveals that the servers will be taken offline by the end of.