11-27-2019, 07:23 PM
Battleborn pulled from digital stores, going offline in 2021
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/battleborn-pulled-from-digital-stores-going-offline-in-2021.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><em>Battleborn</em> publisher 2K Games has announced that Gearbox’s ill-fated hero-shooter will be going offline for good in January 2021, and has already been pulled from digital shelves ahead of the shutdown.</p>
<p>2K says that it is now <a href="https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038371534">in the process of gradually sunsetting the game</a> to direct resources to other projects.</p>
<p>As part of that process, <em>Battleborn</em> players will no longer be able to purchase the game’s premium currency after February 24, 2020, though any purchased prior or earned in-game can be spent as usual until the game goes offline.</p>
<p>After that, the next step sees servers shut down in January 2021, and <em>Battleborn</em> as a whole will be rendered entirely unplayable.</p>
<p>Gearbox launched <em>Battleborn</em> back in 2016, a launch window that saw it going head to head with similarly angled hero-shooters like Blizzard’s <em>Overwatch</em>.</p>
<p>The team had already <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/305904/Moving_on_Gearbox_wraps_up_active_development_on_Battleborn.php">ended active development</a> as of September 2017. At the time, Gearbox said that <em>Battleborn</em>’s servers would remain up for the “foreseeable future,” a point in time that is now just over a year away.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/11/...e-in-2021/
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/battleborn-pulled-from-digital-stores-going-offline-in-2021.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><em>Battleborn</em> publisher 2K Games has announced that Gearbox’s ill-fated hero-shooter will be going offline for good in January 2021, and has already been pulled from digital shelves ahead of the shutdown.</p>
<p>2K says that it is now <a href="https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038371534">in the process of gradually sunsetting the game</a> to direct resources to other projects.</p>
<p>As part of that process, <em>Battleborn</em> players will no longer be able to purchase the game’s premium currency after February 24, 2020, though any purchased prior or earned in-game can be spent as usual until the game goes offline.</p>
<p>After that, the next step sees servers shut down in January 2021, and <em>Battleborn</em> as a whole will be rendered entirely unplayable.</p>
<p>Gearbox launched <em>Battleborn</em> back in 2016, a launch window that saw it going head to head with similarly angled hero-shooters like Blizzard’s <em>Overwatch</em>.</p>
<p>The team had already <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/305904/Moving_on_Gearbox_wraps_up_active_development_on_Battleborn.php">ended active development</a> as of September 2017. At the time, Gearbox said that <em>Battleborn</em>’s servers would remain up for the “foreseeable future,” a point in time that is now just over a year away.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/11/...e-in-2021/