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.
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.
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.
Arctic Combat is a free to play MMOFPS set in a time when the world has sunk in to chaos and World War III has broken out. Now the threat comes from out of space.
