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Gamigo's Twin Saga, Defiance, and Defiance 2050 Are Shutting Down Today | MMORPG.com
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Gamigo's Twin Saga, Defiance, and Defiance 2050 Are Shutting Down Today | MMORPG.com
A quick PSA in case this slipped past you, Gamigo is shutting down several titles today, including Twin Saga, Defiance, and Defiance 2050. Though the actual news of the shutdowns were announced earlier this year in February, the time has come.
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I remember while the tv series was active there was suppose to be some sort of synergy between the tv & the game. I never experienced it but didn't play it much back then. I enjoyed playing Defiance somewhat but it never "awed" me enough to invest $ into it heavily.
The only TV shows that I miss as much as Defiance are The Expanse and LIVE PD.
RIP Defiance!
No it's not.
I hope they didn't shut Eden Eternal down yet because they said they were but it wasn't mentioned here.
Sure it's not the most top shelf game of all time but it was fun af.
I played this with my boys while we watched the show, lots of great memories there. I mean i not going to say the game sucked when it was so much fun to play.
The problem in this mmorpg genre where, everything became a wow clone, to a barren desert, and the ones which survived gave zero confidence when they were being ignored, bought and sold.
All we get now is talk, and more talk, form people trying to milk the faithful fans whom remain.
Looking forward to the EMU
I don't know all the details, but that game just seemed to have stopped developing/adding new content around 2016.
I didn't fully understand why they re-branded and created Defiance 2050 with barely enough changes to justify a new game client, that only ended up splitting the playerbase into two different servers.
I wish the devs luck though. Hopefully they found other jobs soon after.
"A few flaws"? Well, that's an understatement if I ever saw one!
Defiance had more than a few flaws. It had a crapton of flaws of every category. The launch was a shitshow. It took them a month to stop entire XBOX server clusters from crashing. It took players a day to figure out that the tiny zone is all there was at that stage. It took Trion 3-4 weeks to start pushing legendary gear in lootboxes in the game store, salivating at all the $$$ in players' wallets.
Just have a look around their blog, it's still hilarious how they were screwing up every single day, until the executive producer got fired and they stopped the blog. The guy spent half the time in his own reality anyway, claiming excellent progress, only for things to blow up in his face the following day and the community basically proving Trion full of shit at every turn.
Remember the famous ark events, when people discovered that all calculations were done client side and you had major arkfalls completed in seconds, with leaderboard showing 9.999.999.999 damage done by the top player? Remember the PvP hacks - wall hacks, speed hacks, weapon hacks - that were going on for ages after release and Trion could not fix them? And how could they, with half the game mechanics done 100% client side? They would have had to rewrite half the client-server interaction to fix that crap.
The game itself was desperately average, its graphics were outdated already upon its release, the content was almost non-existent and all that players saw were empty promises of new zones and events once the bugs are fixed, while Trion went into full whale milking frenzy almost immediately. After a week or two Trion knew full well the game was tanking and they tried to squeeze as much cash out of people as they could while it still had some community to speak of.
The only thing going for the game was the link with the (pretty mediocre) TV show and even that was almost non-existent in the game. It even took place in a completely different zone, half a continent away from the TV show's locale.
I had fun (including the community drama) with Defiance for the first month and then packed my bags and never logged back in. A couple of weeks was all that game deserved, tbh. And we don't speak of Defiance 2050, that was just Trion's last-ditch attempt to squeeze a couple of hundred dollars out of the 50 remaining desperates they still had in the game.
I thought that ending to the tv show was pretty epic too tbh!
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.