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Wolfpack Studios Closing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the play-to-nothing-i-guess dept.

After a good long run, Wolfpack Studios is being closed down by publisher Ubisoft. Their recent announcement of free-to-play was apparently not the opening of a new business model, but instead a harbinger of the end times. From the MMORPG.com article: "This according to sources at the development house who were recently informed that their jobs were being terminated. The last day for Wolfpack staff is May 15th. Parent company Ubisoft is said to instead be redirecting their company's focus to next-gen platforms. At this time, there is no word on what this will mean for the future of Shadowbane itself. The game just hit its three-year anniversary and was recently offered free to all users."

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  1. First? by Odin_Tiger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    15min. and no replies yet? Looks to me like Ubi did the right thing.

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  2. Short life by FadedTimes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am suprised Shadowbane lasted this long.

    I knew a group of people (roughly 30) who attempted to play Shaadowbane after release. All from different gaming backgrounds, EQ, DAoC, AC, AO, D2, DS, NWN, etc. The game seemed to hit a wall in advancement within the first month of play. Most quit after 30days, only 1 person out of a group of 30 lasted longer than 90 days.

    The game was not good when compared to already establshed games in the genre. Then more advanced games like WoW came out and that just made Shadowbane's already bad situation worse.

  3. Bummer by darkmayo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I came back when the game turned free after leaving it years ago when it was a buggy mess. There is still some nasty bugs but I am surprised on how much fun I was having in game after I came back. First pickup group I had off of the noob isle ended up with 3 of the 9 man trying to jack the other players.. 2 were Thieves.. not sure what we where thinking in the first place the other was an Assassin.

    It was funny to see the one rogue get caught stealing, deny the whole thing and then get smashed down in one hit by another character level 75 main who is spamming "QUIT STEALING" it was comedy gold.

    Shadowbane .. anything goes. I hope it sticks around.

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  4. Wolfpack? by stu42j · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't suppose they are related to the Submarine game from the early nineties? That was a fun game.