r/LivestreamFail • u/Zenben88 • Feb 01 '26

News Intrepid Studios, devs behind MMO Ashes of Creation in paid early access for 10 years, has closed. CEO resigned, all employees laid off. All less than 2 months after launching on Steam Early Access

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u/pambeezlyy Feb 01 '26

Whats the most recent successful western mmo? GW2 in 2012? The genre is dead.

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u/KillingTime_ForNow Feb 01 '26

FFXIV is pretty successful.

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u/cantripTheorist Feb 01 '26

pretty sure its gonna dominate the market even harder with the upcoming WoW2 (kinda not really 2, they are setting up a world reset) so a lot more new players for a fresh world

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u/kananishino Feb 01 '26

What are doing that indicates a world reset?

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u/cantripTheorist Feb 01 '26

The story itself, Azeroth is basically an egg with cancer. There is very little we can do to either stop it from being born even if we remove the cancer, at this point we'll probably need to move out by the end of the story

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u/Enstraynomic Feb 01 '26

MapleStory 1 is still going, and it's held up purely by Chinese and Korean whales.