Highguard Turns into Newest Multiplayer Sport to Die

Barely a month after it launched, Wildlight Leisure has introduced that their raid shooter Highguard shall be shut down subsequent week on March twelfth.

After just lately shedding workers, Wildlight Leisure had most of its funding reportedly pulled by Tencent because the studio struggled to retain gamers after its January twenty sixth launch. Of their announcement Wildlight mentioned, “Regardless of the eagerness and onerous work of our staff, now we have not been in a position to construct a sustainable participant base to assist the sport long run.” They elaborate that over 2 million gamers had tried Highguard, and that servers will stay open till March twelfth.

Moreover, there shall be one remaining replace launched at present or tomorrow for gamers to “get pleasure from within the remaining lifetime of the sport.” This new replace will embody a brand new Warden, a brand new weapon, account stage development, and talent timber. The patch notes are forthcoming at present, earlier than the discharge.

Created by former Respawn Interactive builders, Highguard burst onto the scene at The Sport Awards 2025 as the ultimate announcement executed to shut out the present. Lack of communication over the following month led to many theories till the sport launched, the place it shortly grabbed gamers curious about seeing what it was about, hitting a peak of over 97k gamers at launch. It lacked the flexibility to retain it, and rumors of its loss of life shortly struck following layoffs, and when its web site shut down a pair weeks in the past for a restricted time.

The borrowed life was not for lengthy, nonetheless, as Highguard shall be useless inside of two months of its launch. This isn’t the shortest lifespan for a stay service recreation in current reminiscence, however it would be a part of mentions with titles like Harmony on the hazards of releasing stay service video games, and the way tough it’s for these video games to outlive. Missing the father or mother firm like Harmony had, at this level there isn’t any introduced plans for refunds.