Hooked Gamers writes: "Of course, we can’t know with a complete level of certainty whether or not Hawken will be able to capitalize on its potential and deliver the giant steel-crunching satisfaction that it has promised. Hopefully, it doesn’t fall into the pit that so many other free-to-play titles do, letting people either pay-to-win, or spamming gamers to pay so frequently that its annoyance overcomes the entertainment value in the title. Fret not, however, as at this point all signs signal towards Hawken being another excellent addition to the onslaught of extremely polished free-to-play games that have been sweeping over the industry for the last year or so."
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?
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.