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another live service game bites the dust

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sad news. This was one of my first VR experiences. Paintball game was a lot of fun.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 19 hours ago

Same. I spent easily 100 hours just doing paintball. It seemed like they had a cool thing going, sad to see it die.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I spent a lot of time on there over COVID lockdown, I still go back and play paintball occasionally. Not as upset over losing it as Echo Arena, but still sad. Echo was a great game, still miss it

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't realize Echo Arena closed. That game was epic. Like you were in Ender's Game.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sad to see, but extra sad that they made no considerations about releasing their servers

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 47 points 1 day ago

But at least they are building a tool to export the rooms into unity which will be available in a week - that is more than most live service games do

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I actually really liked this game and was hoping to play again when the Steam Frame came out. 😢

[–] krispyavuz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Probably a strategic move due to the rising server costs and the potential age verification requirement.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I played Red Room a decent amount when it first came out and hadn't been completely taken over by children, and it was a great time! Apparently I had earned some fancy items, and over the last 8 years I've had like 20 people cold-messaging me on various platforms because I used the same username on Rec Room and they wanted the items.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 day ago

What a shame, my kids loved this.

[–] dotCody@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Now they can stop spamming me with emails that im unable to unsubscribe from.