Wildlight Entertainmentは、フリートゥプレイのマルチプレイヤーレイドシューターHighguardのサーバーを2026年3月12日に終了します—ローンチから45日後—収益不足とプレイヤーベースの維持失敗を理由に挙げており、200万人以上のユーザー、同時接続ピーク約10万人、ローンチ後アップデートにもかかわらずです。終了前に最終コンテンツアップデートを予定しています。
Highguardは、元TitanfallおよびApex Legends開発者によるWildlight Entertainmentの3v3レイドシューターで、レーン小競り合いMOBA要素とベースレイドを融合したものです。The Game Awards 2025でホストGeoff Keighleyによるトレーラーで公開され、2026年1月26日にPC (Steam)、PlayStation、Xboxでローンチしました。
Xユーザーは、200万人ユーザーと10万人同時接続ピークにもかかわらずわずか45日でのHighguard終了に衝撃と失望を表明しています。批評家はプレイヤー定着の悪さ、レイドシューター形式のジャンル混乱、Tencentの資金削減などの外部要因を指摘。肯定的反応は新キャラクター、スキルツリー、コンテンツを含む大規模最終アップデートへの開発者の献身を称賛しています。懐疑的な声は「現代オーディエンス」ターゲットと市場飽和を非難。
Highguard is shutting down.
— Yorch Torch Games (@YorchTorchGames) 2026年3月3日
Three important lessons from its failure:
1. Never take Tencent money. It's poison.
2. Don't try to sell to 'modern audiences'.
3. If the feminist shills over at PC Gamer have to explain why your game 'didn’t flop,'... it already did. https://t.co/oSbnAvjYM6
The game Highguard in the "Concordian Universe" is shutting down.
— Emerald Apple (@AI_EmeraldApple) 2026年3月3日
The game lost 99.7% of its player base since launch, failed to retain players, and Tencent basically said nope on continuation of operations. It lasted longer than Concord, but with the player base down to only… pic.twitter.com/jxfyUf4YGj
Damn, the Highguard devs developed a progression and skill tree system before they decided to shut down the game on March 12. They just released it as part of the final “Farewell” patch along with a new shotgun and a new character named Koldo. #Highguard pic.twitter.com/aQVBzojOI2
— Rebs Gaming (@Mr_Rebs_) 2026年3月5日
Highguard gets its biggest update ever including an entire skill tree just days ahead of shutdown
— Kotaku (@Kotaku) 2026年3月4日
A "skeleton crew" crunched to get it out even if it "only gets played by a few thousand people."
The studio head pushed back on conspiracies about the game's failure.
"Nobody…
Called it. Didn’t even take a month. March 12th Highguard shuts down. They don’t have the player base to sustain the game.
— Just a guy who loves video games (@vagrantpistol) 2026年3月3日
Dear Developers,
Don’t make any new Hero Shooters. Says all the gamers that never asked for this Frankenstein of a game.
#gamingnews #gamingcommunity… https://t.co/aORlwqpAlU pic.twitter.com/xelUCykGhw
ARC Team and PUBG Studios have announced that their top-down tactical shooter PUBG: Blindspot will close on March 30, just over two months after its early access launch. The free-to-play spin-off from Krafton struggled with low player numbers and long matchmaking times. Sequoia Yang of ARC Team cited an inability to sustain the desired player experience as the reason for the shutdown.
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