The builders of Hawken are shutting down the servers for his or her first-person Mech fight recreation on Steam. It’s solely been three years for the reason that recreation launched, however apparently the builders are transferring on to new issues. In a Fb publish to followers, the Hawken dev staff says that they’re shutting the servers right down to “refocus our growth efforts.”
The PC model of Hawken will probably be eliminated on January 2nd, 2018. All the downloadable and purchasable content material for the sport may also be unavailable beginning at present October 2nd, 2017.
“It’s been an extremely rewarding expertise working alongside such a devoted PC participant base,” reads a notice from the developer. “We sit up for creating extra nice video games based mostly on what we’ve realized.”
Hawken had a ton of buzz heading into its intial launch because the premise of quick paced, first-person, Mech fight is a captivating premise. Regardless of its upbeat tone, the message does fall on a group that’s considerably baffled by the choice to close down the servers utterly with out providing some other approach to play recreation by way of LAN server.
There’s been no point out of the Hawken staff shutting down the PlayStation or Xbox model of the sport.
– This text was up to date on March eighth, 2018
