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Troubled live-service action RPG Babylon’s Fall will close its doors on February 28th 2023, Square Enix and developers Platinum Games have revealed today. The game had struggled to make an impact since its launch on March 3rd earlier this year, with concurrent player counts dropping to zero at times. It hadn’t looked good from the early days when, as we pointed out, Platinum Games were tweeting statements that Babylon’s Fall’s wasn’t “in danger” just two weeks following its launch.
Babylon’s Fall has been cancelled by Square Enix, after the PlatinumGames developed live service multiplayer game launched earlier this year to little fanfare and a dwindling player base.
PlatinumGames has announced this morning that development will not continue on Babylon’s Fall, and that the game’s live services are being terminated. This also means, given that Babylon’s Fall is an online-only game, that no one will be able to play it once servers are shutdown.
The developer announced February 27, 2023 as the last day anyone will be able to play the online action RPG, meaning Babylon’s Fall will have lasted less than a year since its release in March this year.
“With the desire of delivering an exhilarating online multiplayer action RPG set in an elaborate high fantasy world, we launched the game’s official service on Thursday, March 3, 2022, and have continued to undertake additional development and operations,” said PlatinumGames in an official statement.