Square Enix is finally shutting down its biggest disaster of the year
Square Enix has announced it’s ending support for co-op multiplayer RPG Babylon’s Fall, with the beleaguered game set to permanently shut down only a year after release.
Babylon’s Fall struggled to attract an audience when it launched in March earlier this year, and dropped below a measly 10 players on Steam only weeks after release. In a blog post(opens in new tab), Square Enix announced it will stop digital and physical sales of the title from today (September 13), and will terminate the game on February 28, 2023.
After that point, Babylon’s Fall will no longer be available to play, even if you previously purchased the game. All gameplay data will be deleted, and all in-game currency and purchases will be made inaccessible.
Square Enix also said it has canceled several large-scale updates it had in the pipeline, but will continue to release a schedule of new content and a final season before the game goes permanently offline. Even these, Square Enix clarified, are “subject to change without prior notice”.
“In terms of the plan moving forward, Season 2 will run until Tuesday, 29 November 2022 as scheduled, and the Final Season will begin with the maintenance scheduled on the same day,” said Square Enix. “This Final Season is the period during which you can earn the ranking rewards of Season 2.
“As a way of expressing our gratitude to all our players, we plan to implement as many events and other initiatives as we can, leading up to the end of the service.”
Square Enix had said in a statement back in March that it had “no plans to reduce the scale of development of Babylon’s Fall”, after the game’s initial sales and playerbase failed to take off. It had already started work on Season 3 – which now looks to be the game’s final
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