Babylon’s Fall, a multiplayer co-op developed by Platinum Games, has an additional Season 2Extended 3-month reassessment periodit was officially announced that the game will be released in 2023Closing up operations。
according toOfficial Announcementthe second season of this work will end on November 29th, when the Battle Pass will be discontinued, and then the final season (The Final Season) will be launched, allowing players to obtain follow-up copies and special event rewards, and then go through 3 events. event, the game will stop operating on February 27, 2023.
In fact, there are traces of the end of “Fall of Babylon”, on August 23, the developer forum announced “Digest #26” is their last dev summary report, only announcing that the game will continue to be maintained, and this weekly routine report will stop updating following the Season 2 event is over.
Two days later, on August 25, the officialAnnounceThe “Fall of Babylon” Demo free trial also officially ended on August 29, following which it was announced today that it would cease operations.
It is with deep regret that we are terminating the game’s service on February 28, 2023.
Please read our full Notice for further information.https://t.co/mvaFYmOkYB
Thank you so much for your support and playing BABYLON’S FALL.— BABYLON’S FALL (@BabylonsFall_EN) September 13, 2022
The operation of “The Fall of Babylon” can be said to be a series of tragedies. The early version of the game was criticized by players due to the problem of image quality and the operation mode related to the tuition fee. Metacritic Rating Network PC platform player rating is even moreonly 1.4 pointsand the biggest main reason is the impact of the simultaneous listing of “Elden Ring”, resulting in a very low number of players.
According to Steamchart website records, the PC version of “The Fall of Babylon”Horrible number of playersit is difficult to imagine that Square Enix and Platinum Studio have invested heavily in creating a 3A game, and the version update in the subsequent seasons has not improved, and the number of players in the later PC version may be even less than that of the developers.
Unfortunately, due to Square Enix’s release strategy, Taiwan, South Korea, China, etc. have been listed as region-locked from beginning to end, unable to access the Steam store, so the game also lost many potential players.
In any case, Square Enix and Platinum Studio may need to digest the frustration experience of this listing failure in order to figure out the direction of subsequent cooperative development and avoid the regret of repeating the same mistakes.
