[Update] Hawken Is Beingness Shut As Well As Removed From Steam Inwards January

Developer Reloaded Games wants to "refocus" its evolution efforts.

It's been good over a twelvemonth since nosotros terminal reported on the fashionable mech shooter Hawken, which itself was preceded past times almost a amount twelvemonth of quiet from developer Reloaded Games. Things convey happened since then: In April the studio announced plans for the outset update to the PC version of the game inwards 2 years, too began a "soft launch" inwards May which was meant to Pb into a amount "relaunch."
Today, however, the developers announced that the vivid futurity promised before this twelvemonth is almost to become completely dark. "After iii non bad years, nosotros are shutting downward the PC Steam servers to refocus our evolution efforts. The PC game volition officially live removed on Jan 2, 2018, too all DLC too purchasable content volition besides live unavailable starting today," the Hawken squad announced on Facebook.
"It’s been an incredibly rewarding sense working with such a dedicated PC histrion base. Your feedback too back upwards has been invaluable to us, too the squad looks forrad to creating to a greater extent than non bad games based on what we’ve learned from you."

Hawken was outset revealed to the globe inwards 2011 with a "work-in-progress" trailer that looked therefore great, nosotros called it "the best mech game we've seen." It pulled inwards big bucks on fifty-fifty bigger expectations, but never caught burn after it went into opened upwards beta. Original publisher Meteor Entertainment went nether inwards early on 2014, too that was that until Reloaded picked it upwards a twelvemonth later.
PS4 too Xbox One versions of Hawken were released inwards July 2016, too the expert news, such equally it is, is that it sounds similar they'll live sticking closed to for now, since the closure statement refers specifically to the PC version of the game. It doesn't nation anything almost precisely why the plug is beingness pulled, but the obvious likelihood is only that nobody is playing it: The average concurrent histrion count on Steam has been inwards spend upwards for years, too hitting a depression of just 86 last month.

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