Eldegarde is dead, whatever that game might have been, it was yet another extraction shooter but set in a fantasy world. It used to be called Legacy: Steel and Sorcery, but the name was changed to attract more people to it. The game was pretty generic, and when you couple the current landscape of gaming, where a ton of live service games just fail, then it was obvious this one was gonna fall too. Hopefully this can be fixed with the studio releasing some single player games that are done with love and passion, instead of scamming players with cash shops and virtual items.
Eldegarde is down
You only have the entirety of this month to play Eldegarde, if there’s even anyone who is interested, but if you bought it now you should refund it. The fact that they aren’t offering refunds for those who bought it past year when it was in Early Access feels like a rug pull, and the studio behind it should be investigated for this. Games that die so quick are the reason movements like Stop Killing Games even exist in the first place, because we need some safeguards to ensure that we can finally play them forever or host our own servers.
Games like this should remain free, and charging money for a live service should be seen as highway robbery. As a matter of fact, Highguard is dying very soon in some days, and that game was completely free. If you ask me, I believe that the reign of live service games has ended, and perhaps developers who were planning on making some more like this should reconsider working on single player titles instead. There’s so little time nowadays that only a few live service titles from decades ago control the market, that being World of Warcraft and Counter Strike. Eldegarde stood no chance.
