Webzen Inc., a global leader in next-generation free-to-play games, unleashes a heart-stopping new Alien Defense Mode for the modern military FPS, Arctic Combat.
Arctic Combat fans were disappointed when it was recently announced that the game was closing down for good on September 2, less than a year from its release.
MMO-Play has gathered the main reasons why the game has failed so soon.
MMO Culture: Apologies for the rather late news, as Webzen announced Arctic Combat’s closure late last month. This follows the closure of SUN Online, citing lack of players. While no official reason was given for Arctic Combat, it is most probably due to the same reason as well.
The MMOFPS genre is certainly thinner than its RPG sibling, partly because FPS games are normally the multiplayer accompaniment of a single player campaign. There is certainly a lack of persistent world in these multiplayer modes, unlike Planetside 2 for instance, where there are huge areas up for contention in endless battles. Arctic Combat falls in-between the two, offering more than what the likes of COD or BF3 offers, but the lack of persistence as seen in Planetside 2.
