Cities XL, The City Building MMO, Goes Single Player
As I said in my Not Review of the game, Cities XL is vast. It has levels of detail I would struggle to understand even after spending hours with the game. With the added MMO aspect the game’s inner core of nerd-bliss becomes something almost unattainable by myself. It seems others felt the same way too and, citing a lack of subscribers, the game will soon be going completely single player.
In news announced on the official Cities XL site the game’s developers, Monte Cristo, have said that from February 1st you will be unable to subscribe and on March 8th the multiplayer aspect will completely shut down. The reason is sadly a simple one.
Three months after the launch we have to admit that the subscription rate is lower than what we expected and therefore the Planet Offer is no longer sustainable. Not enough players decided to subscribe.
No new content or patches for the current game will be released, however it will still be supported by the company. A sequel, Cities XL 2011, will be released soon as a purely single-player version and the pricing for that will be released in the next few weeks.
Via: Rock, Paper, Shotgun
This makes me sad, I wanted to try this once I’d got a few tiny annoyances out of the way i.e my degree.
I hate seeing MMOs take the route of the dodo, but it was pretty apparent that an MMO SimCity type game was a bad idea.