Hawken announced they have been acquired by Reloaded Games and K2 Network so that further development is allowed to continue.
Expect the game to only work offline right now.
As we trend ever deeper into a world of games that require servers maintained by the developer or publisher, we see more and more games disappearing from the world. What happens when these games are shut down? What does it take for a game to survive beyond this point?
I was going to say that. Lol!
Actually, "Just ask Atari where ET is."
But basically the same joke.
Most modern games that have online components like destiny rely so heavily on co op between players that even if you had a full disc version popping it in and playing won't be a fun experience as you can't play the actual game after hitting a wall with difficulty levels of they even boot
But classic titles like vice city will still be the same in 2049 as they were in 2001 provided you play on a disc not stripped down digital versions that have the soundtrack cut out ten years later
Hawken, the free to play mech shooter has had its servers closed on Steam, but it will remain live on consoles.
This is exactly why only online multiplayer games won't last very long. It's important to have a single player campaign (a good one, not a throw-away trash story) or some kind of offline multiplayer mode.
it's doing well on console mostly because xbox gamers haven't had a good game for a few years.
I’ve played some great MP-only titles, so needing a SP isn’t really an issue, so much as it’s the developers needing to make the game good and offer content to keep people coming back.
When it's fighting Mechwarrior Online, another PVP mech game from a franchise with an established fan-base, it couldn't really compete. While MWO does have its issues, it has solid combat with a very generous F2P model, unlike Hawken, which forced you to use a starter mech and then buy every other one.
PUBG does not need a sp campaign. Never let me catch you speaking such rot again.
Hawken was never a very popular game, i think its peak concurrent user count was a little over 8k. There is plenty of other popular old MP games, heck the original Counter Strike has a pretty large user base lol.
Good to know. I still play the hell out of this on PC. Hoping, new management means it finds its way to X1.
I plan on playing this when I get my VR setup.
I didn't know it stopped development. Good for them.
Hope this comes to PS4, is a pretty nice MP mech game.
I was a little turned off back when it was first announced that the devs were switching to a f2p model. however, I feel like the f2p works well enough here. the in-game credit is earned easily enough, while the $ amount is a bit high, making it almost discouraging to pay with real money.
comparing Hawken to CoD seems unfair. the different game modes resemble traditional CoD modes, but the gameplay is so much different (I feel). the different mechs feel as if they have weight appropriate to their class. Strafing is incredibly fun, useful, and satisfying. there are some very creative, and varied weapons that are both fun to use and to learn to use efficiently, while defining their specific mech's class. There is no auto-regenerating health, though you can, after a firefight, find a 'safe' place to hide-away and repair yourself, which makes the 'time-to-kill' fun (fights can potentially last much longer than CoD's 1-2 second firefights).
Hawken is fun and free, try it out.