Released for the PC on April 3rd, 2012 and developed by Zombie Studios, Blacklight Retribution is a free 2 play shooter set in a futuristic sci-fi world. You may have heard of the publisher, Perfect World Entertainment, as they have published other F2P games such as Champion's Online and Forsaken World.
The first thing you'll notice when loading up Blacklight Retribution is its interface. The UI is very simple, clean, and really brings across that futuristic feel. Although the interface looks good, functionality is another question. The UI is a bit hard to comprehend when you first jump into the game. With many options in the customization tab the game can appear a little confusing at first. After a couple matches and poking around in the customization tab things start to appear a little more coherent. Switching out parts in your gun becomes easy and purchasing other upgrades seems a little less muddled.
Blacklight Retribution PS4 operations will continue without official support but the game's PC version has been shut down.
Shut the servers down but let people host their own and keep these games active for those who want to play. Its bullshit when they kill a game completely when they could easy patch it for hosting / creating online content
Hardsuit Labs has mentioned that the Blacklight Retribution servers are shutting down on March 11 for PC, though PS4 version will continue as is. All items in the PC store are now free.
Remember playing this when I first got a ps4. Never good news to see games shut down I guess one day online only games can bite the dust
This is why buying into these sort of games are a bad idea.
See this is why online mp only games effing sucks and definitely will never support them. ;)
Depending how much of a cult following it has, it could be revived by some mod team in the distant future. Similar cases have happened with games like 2142 and Star Wars Galaxies.
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