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StealThisSheen posted...

It was an open beta, but was there actually any indication that they intended to take it down, at all? Most open betas, nowadays, don't get taken down. They just kinda stay up until they transition to "gold" status. For example, compare it to things like Disney Speedstorm and Dreamlight Valley, which also came out as a betas, but just stayed active until the full release. Granted, I haven't taken part in many such "open betas," but I remember Tem-tem doing something similar, way back when, so based on my own personal experiences, I haven't seen many games actually just... Stop existing, for awhile, between open beta and actual release. Especially not ones that charged you money for things during the beta.

Its along the lines of what I recall from their end of services announcement and here say. The original plan was just to open the beta for a while, build hype and sell dlc. Then close it and rerelease the complete game a year later.

But they kept the beta open likely due to the insane player count at its peak and revenues gained. Which was a mistake in my opinion, and should have ended as soon as the player count started to nosedive.

That and the game was fundamentally broken and needed a lot more then a few patchs to fix.