The builders of Hawken are shutting down the servers for his or her first-person Mech fight recreation on Steam. It’s solely been three years because the recreation launched, however apparently the builders are shifting on to new issues. In a Facebook post to fans, the Hawken dev staff says that they’re shutting the servers all the way down to “refocus our growth efforts.”
The PC model of Hawken can be eliminated on January 2nd, 2018. The entire downloadable and purchasable content material for the sport may also be unavailable beginning at this time October 2nd, 2017.
“It’s been an extremely rewarding expertise working alongside such a devoted PC participant base,” reads a word from the developer. “We sit up for creating extra nice video games primarily based on what we’ve discovered.”
Hawken had a ton of buzz heading into its intial launch because the premise of quick paced, first-person, Mech fight is a captivating premise. Regardless of its upbeat tone, the message does fall on a group that’s considerably baffled by the choice to close down the servers utterly with out providing another strategy to play recreation through LAN server.
There’s been no point out of the Hawken staff shutting down the PlayStation or Xbox model of the sport.