NCsoft said the game 'failed to connect amongst gamers.'
We've had about practiced things to state virtually Master X Master, NCsoft's dual-hero MOBA that came out inward June. It wasn't perfect, exactly every bit nosotros noted every bit late every bit August, fifty-fifty "in an increasingly crowded market, Master X Master deserves a minute look." But it didn't instruct that produce goodness of the doubt—an trial nosotros indirectly predicted inward our commencement study on it—and NCsoft announced today that it volition move closed at the destination of January.
"Deciding to closed the game is non a determination nosotros come upwardly to lightly, exactly ultimately it came downwards to a affair of business—we explored several options, exactly none of them were sustainable," it said. "We really believe that MXM is special, together with offered a lot of novel ideas to modify upwardly the MOBA genre, exactly inward trying to carve out a niche for itself, nosotros failed to connect amongst players."
Real-money purchases inward the MXM Store conduct keep been disabled, exactly players volition move able to croak along at it until Jan 31, 2018. For the residue of its uptime, all game modes volition move available to play at all times, together with players volition move given 500,000 X-Coins together with hence they tin unlock all in-game content. The community-developed Lua peel is besides going to move made available to everyone, for 1 X-Coin.
Players who purchased the game betwixt August thirty together with Nov half dozen volition automatically move granted refunds; players inward that timeframe who purchased it using the non-refundable PaySafeCard, Nordea, or Osuuspankki & Aastopankki payment methods should contact NCsoft support for information on how the refund volition move handled.
"We saw MXM every bit a challenge to the condition quo—a change-up of mechanics that would revitalize the MOBA genre together with attract players who wanted to exam the upper limits of their skills—but inward the end, it wasn’t plenty to accept on the established juggernauts," NCsoft wrote. "We over again desire to extend our sincere gratitude to the MXM community, together with promise y'all all tin savor the remaining fourth dimension amongst the game."
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