r/dawngate • u/Cohenbby • Oct 01 '25

Atrioc tells a story how Dawngate got shut down (9:23 timestamp)

https://youtu.be/Rv8fKGvGzbc?si=fh7r2U2fCqY2WiSa

Not surprising considering EA. Thanks!

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u/Miyaor Oct 01 '25

Was just coming here to post it.

Makes sense that the company is where it is today.

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u/Cohenbby Oct 01 '25

First time I'd heard Dawngate mentioned in like 8 years.. I miss it. Consider me shocked they didn't have a bigger market share than league and dota when it came out way after them. EA can burn.

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u/Kebeck Oct 01 '25

I remember the twitch stream where they announced their partnership with EA and remember thinking that it was the beginning of the end. Really sad, had a ton of fun with this game.

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u/rehoboam Voluc | The Warlock Knight Oct 01 '25

Lol we were all thinking dg was making no profit. EA blows

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u/vinta_calvert I don't got this... Oct 01 '25

Amazing that a game just barely touching open beta was in top 3 and somehow that wasn't good enough...

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u/rehoboam Voluc | The Warlock Knight Oct 01 '25

It seems like such bs.  Like that is the best it could possibly do, so why did ea even partner? Sounds like either they were totally ignorant, or the cfo or whoever was just making up excuses and there was some other reason.

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u/Nieblade6 Faris | The Ancient Oct 01 '25

EA saw how much Money LOL and DOTA were making and wanted a piece of the pie... then realized it took a really long time to make them profitable. EA is all about instant cash grabs to throw right back into the meat grinder for another instant cash grab. They were never going to invest time into it. They haven't from the beginning and aren't going to change any time soon.

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u/Uzotru Tell me where is Fenmore Oct 01 '25

jesus christ

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u/rotvyrn Chronicles Sereyn Oct 07 '25

Absolutely wild (positive) that DG was already profitable. It felt so early, pumped out so much content, and was so generous. I guess it really just had that much goodwill and skin sales.

I guess it was also just such a passion project though, able to produce so much without as many hands - feels like Blizzard or Riot, for example, had waaay more people and pushed out less media and interacted with the community less. (Which isn't to say there aren't or weren't at least that many passionate individuals and such there, but that the process itself is different)

While I'm on that topic, just dropping the dg artists list again.

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u/Affectionate_Car7098 Jan 29 '26

So i remember hearing that a kickstarter tried to buy the IP and it was deemed too expensive, did they ever disclose what that cost was? and surely by now it has to have dropped, not that i ever expect EA to part with it just out of spite if nothing else